• Does your organization understand applicable ethical standards and do your people act accordingly?
• Do your organization’s activities meet your stakeholders’ expectations for ethical behavior?

Business ethics include the standards of professional conduct that govern a company, industry, or profession. An organization’s key stakeholders – including society at large – may have even greater expectations for ethical behavior by an organization and its people. When organizations fail to meet any of those standards, reputational harm is sure to follow.

We study best practices in business ethics and in the related fields of corporate responsibility, socially-responsible investing, and communication ethics.

Our Fellows help clients understand the nature and scope of the ethical standards applicable to their organizations, especially the standards and procedures they choose to apply to themselves. Based on our considerable expertise in the area of corporate responsibility, we advise our clients on ethical decision-making, ethical standards, and codes of conduct. We also:

• conduct compliance workshops and war-games
• facilitate departmental meetings to test a workforce’s level of understanding of its existing ethical standards
• help develop enhanced ethics and compliance programs

More fundamentally, we help our clients develop a pattern of behaving and communicating responsibly beyond simple compliance with codes, regulations and procedures.

Meet Our Experts:

Helio Fred Garcia has taught business ethics in the Law and Business program of New York University’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies, and presently teaches communication ethics -- including the communication of codes of conduct and ethics procedures -- in the Masters program in Corporate Communications and Public Relations of New York University’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies.

Anthony Ewing leads the corporate responsibility practice at LOGOS INSTITUTE. Anthony teaches international business and human rights at Columbia Law School and publishes widely on corporate responsibility and corporate human rights practices.

Contact us to see how we can help you develop best practices in business ethics.