How good are you, really?
Cracking column by Eva Wiseman in yesterday's Observer on the trials of trying to live ethically – self-coruscating about the blind eye she turns to ethical issues...
Book Review: Doing Good Better
Feb 19, 2016
When I was an undergraduate, I unexpectedly came into a small amount of cash as I'd been underpaid for a summer job. Rather than fritter (all) the...
There’s no silver bullet in CSR
Sep 28, 2015
For those of us searching for ways of making business more responsible, it is all too easy to call for simple solutions. Unfortunately recent scandals have...
Is there any mileage in unethical business?
Sep 21, 2015
It's well known that car makers use all kinds of tricks to bump up the apparent fuel efficiency of their vehicles (surely easily sorted by...
Digging an ethical hole…
Sep 4, 2015
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...
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...
For Blatter or Worse
Jun 1, 2015
Another week, another massive ethical scandal – this time the curtain has been drawn back on the seething pit of corruption that is Fifa with the...
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...
When ‘ethical’ can be unethical…
Mar 27, 2015
A very interesting point was raised by a Corporate Sustainability Mastermind Group member at last week's meeting: The easiest ethical choices are often not very...