Digging an ethical hole…
Interesting example from Daniel Kahneman's excellent psychology book, Thinking, Fast & Slow: A hardware store has been selling snow shovels for $15. The morning after...
CSR – HR = PR
Jun 26, 2015
On Wednesday I was at an event organised by CIPD North East for HR professionals. I'd been asked to come along by my colleague Tracy...
If you can’t trust a charity…
Jun 17, 2015
A couple of months ago, I was leaving the swimming pool with the older two boys and I was stopped by a nice man selling...
The dumbest guys in the room
May 28, 2015
Last week, I finally caught "The Smartest Guys in the Room" – the story of the Enron scandal. If you have an interest in business...
Is ‘good business’ unethical?
Apr 20, 2015
Last week I was asked to comment on a statement by Prof Aneel Karnani of the University of Michigan who proposes that Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) actions are only truly...
Are we ignoring the ‘social’ in Sustainability?
Mar 4, 2015
In this edition of Ask Gareth, I consider whether we tend to ignore the social when we talk about 'Sustainability' and some of the issues...
The Only Way is Ethics…
Feb 19, 2015
Look at the headlines. Has HSBC been helping very rich people people avoid tax? Did the Conservative Leader know about it before ennobling an HSBC...
What makes a company ‘good’?
Dec 1, 2014
There was an article in the Observer yesterday on Simon Anholt and his 'Good Countries Index' that was so fascinating, I immediately checked out Anholt's TEDtalk (above)....
How many wake up calls does ‘ethical’ business need?
May 26, 2014
First it was the Co-op debacle, then it was the revelation that gender pay differentials are worse in CSR than in wider industry and now...
Practising what we preach…
May 16, 2014
We're all human. And a human trait that concerns me is a tendency for some who are on a CSR/sustainability/ethical mission to give themselves a...