Ethics News

1. Data security, 18 February, 2019

   Cambridge Analytica and Facebook scandal ‘a failure of governance’

   The data breach involving 87 million Facebook users and Cambridge Analytica, the data analytics firm, was a “profound failure of governance” within the social media business, according to a committee of UK MPs.

2. Ethics, 4 February, 2019

   Data security poses growing ethics risk

   Research finds an increasing number of ethical lapses reported in the tech industry, while banking and finance continues to be the biggest area for wrongdoing.

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   Davos and climate, 28 January, 2019

   Battling climate change boosts stock performance

   Davos became a story about climate change. One research group found that good climate change policies helps boost stock performance—good news for investors.

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   Investors, 21 January, 2019

   Culture and intangibles top list of engagement concerns

   Letters from State Street and BlackRock's CEO Larry Fink indicate the emphasis investors now place on corporate culture and intangible assets.

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   Year in Review, 24 December, 2018

   2018: A year in governance

   This past year has been packed with governance events from the launch of new codes, executive pay debates, and leadership behaviour debacles to climate change, cybersecurity scandals and the Khashoggi murder.

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   Workplace behaviour, 21 November, 2018

   Portuguese workers lead on ethics

   Research finds that Portuguese employees are the least likely in Europe to embrace unethical acts, while reporting on ethics proves poor across the world.

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   Labour relations, 5 November, 2018

   How the Google walkout was no ordinary employee protest

   Google staff staged a walkout in their thousands over the handling of sexual misconduct cases, possibly one of the first such actions where highly paid workers protested over company values.

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   ESG, 26 October, 2018

   BlackRock’s sustainable investment ambition

   After a decade or more of sustainable investment in Europe, BlackRock, the world's biggest fund manager, announced that it wants to lead the world.