Building Trust ERC and US Chamber Event

Building Trust

Transparency, Accountability Are the Best Defense

Does an Enron scandal taint all publicly traded companies in the public’s mind?  And if it does, what can corporations do about it?

Huge growth in the size of the investing public in the past 20 years is one reason the premise probably is correct, said Michael Oxley, addressing the event co-hosted by ERC and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington, D.C.

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Valerie Fried, PHRGuest Column:
Valerie Fried, PHR
Oklahoma Business Ethics Consortium

Integrity in the Workplace

Have you ever had a heart for something, but really didn’t know where to start?  I found myself grappling with this very thing back in 2003.  

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Pat J Harned, Ph.D, President, Ethics Resource CenterColumn
By Patricia J. Harned, Ph.D.
President, ERC

Occasionally people smile when I mention ethics, as if they think that corporate ethics, deep down inside, is a joke.

But some of the biggest institutional investors in this country would beg to differ.
Early last month, a major health insurance provider agreed to pay more than $900 million to settle a class-action lawsuit over the alleged back-dating of stock options for senior management. read more...

The Policy Report

By Paula J. Desio
ERC Chair on Ethics Policy

House Bill Would Require More Overseas Disclosure

House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank recently introduced legislation (H.R. 6066) to require publicly traded oil, gas, and mining companies to disclose payments, by country and category, to the governments where these natural resources are extracted.  read more...

Codes for Contractors

Last December, Ethics Today reported on proposed federal regulations intended to strengthen the compliance and ethics programs of government contractors and subcontractors. read more...

High Performance with High Integrity, by Ben W. Heineman Jr.High Performance with High Integrity

Book Review
By Rachel Schwartz

Capitalism, Ben Heineman writes in High Performance with High Integrity, “faces a fundamental problem of integrity. At the very heart of high per formance lie fundamental forces that, if left unconstrained, cause corporate corruption.”
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  • Fellows Night Out

    Fellows 2008
    Wrapping up the mid-summer meeting of the ERC Fellows with fine dining and networking were, from left, Earnie Broughton, USAA, outgoing Fellows chair; Moira McGinty Klos, ERC; Steve Prosser, Starbucks; and Nan Stout, Staples. 
    The Fellows met July 16-18 at the Marriott Westfields, near Dulles International Airport.