September
  2004
ABOUT US

The Edmund Rice Business Ethics Initiative, launched in 1991, exists to promote a conversation between business and the community on values and ethics: promoting life humanly in our businesses, our communities, our planet. It aims to create a space where these issues can be discussed and researched in mutually supportive ways. It seems to promote better communication for the sake of better outcomes for us all.

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Ethical Investment and a better bottom line
Ethical investment funds not only promote ethically better outcomes but also better financial ones, too.

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Executive Salaries and Corporate Governance
Shareholders have long been asking questions about top executive salaries, bonuses and incentives but not very insistently while profits rise. However, for many, the issue has implications for perceptions of the credibility of businesses’ ethical profiles: how committed are top executives to the development of an ethical business culture rather than just a handsome Code of Conduct?

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$US400 billion at stake in largest civil US suit ever
The US Federal Government has spent 5 years and $US135 million preparing to bring the major US Tobacco Companies to a Federal Court for the first time, using anti-mafia racketeering laws.

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The Jackson Special Inquiry into James Hardie has released its report
The Jackson Inquiry finds that James Hardie CEO and others misled the stock exchange about the funding provided to compensate victims of asbestosis.

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Bad apple or Bad Barrel?

In stepping up to the challenge of managing the ethical dimension of modern workplaces, The Private sector has much to learn from the Public Sector.
Attracta Lagan

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  Jessica Keily
» Who really runs the country?
··Ethical Investment and a better bottom line
··Executive Salaries and Corporate Governance
··$US400 billion at stake in largest civil US suit ever
··The Jackson Special Inquiry into James Hardie has released its report
··Bad apple or Bad Barrel?
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