May
  2005
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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Carrots and sticks
We are all familiar with the concept of carrots and sticks, systems of rewards and punishments to get “the donkey” moving in the right direction. Sometimes we need to ask ourselves what ‘the right direction” is.

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Institutional investors call for assessment of climate change risk
Climate change is becoming a big business opportunity. GE, for example, is boosting its investment in R&D of alternative energy from $US700m last year to $US1.5b pa to 2010, planning to boost revenue from $US10b last year to $US20b in 2010. (CSRWire)

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Survey
"Good Business" wants to improve! Please help us respond to your needs by filling out our survey. It will take less than 5 minutes! Click for Survey

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Compliance and regulation is costing, so has fraud
The Business Council of Australia has prepared a report on compliance burdens which identifies 33,0000 pages of new laws written by federal and state governments in the past 2 years.

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The ethics of the search for the “buy button”
Researchers in Great Britain, the US and Australia are searching for what critics call advertising’s equivalent of the Holy Grail: “the buy button”.
John Sweeney

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  David Marks and Michael Stone
» Invitation to Breakfast: Work-Life Balance is an Ethical Issue
» Tomorrow’s leaders TODAY: Challenges for sustainability
» Law & Finance Conference on Compliance
··Carrots and sticks
··Institutional investors call for assessment of climate change risk
··Survey
··Compliance and regulation is costing, so has fraud
··The ethics of the search for the “buy button”
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