Carnegie Council Launches New Interview Series: Advocates for Ethics in Business

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Tue Jun 16, 2009 11:49am EDT

NEW YORK, June 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Nearly every organization faces
difficult ethical dilemmas when doing business globally.  How do they address
them successfully? To find out, Carnegie Council is launching Advocates for
Ethics in Business, a unique series of audio interviews with business, civil
society and academic leaders. 

The interviews will be posted every Tuesday starting on June 16 and will run
through the summer. Find them online at http://www.cceia.org or listen to them
as podcasts via iTunes or RSS Feed.  This free series is available to public
radio stations on request.     
 
Among other topics, the conversations will touch on environmental
sustainability, supply chain analysis, labor standards and corporate giving as
part of business identity creation. They will also examine how ethical
business practices can potentially improve the bottom line.  

"Through these talks, we aim to explore the ethical principles of business's
responsibility to society, and to provide examples of best practices for
companies to learn from," says Carnegie Council Program Director Devin
Stewart. "The world's best companies are successful partly because they have a
global strategy in place for dealing with ethical problems, while their less
successful competitors tackle them on an ad hoc basis." 

The interviews are conducted by radio professional Julia Kennedy, who is
currently studying for an M.A. at Yale. Prior to that, Kennedy hosted and
produced 51%, a nationally distributed public radio program. In a wide-ranging
journalism career, she has also worked for NPR and washingtonpost.com.  

Here is the lineup through July 21: 

-- June 16, Christine Bader, Advisor to John Ruggie, UN/Harvard
-- June 23, Sujeesh Krishnan and Euan Murray, Carbon Trust 
-- June 30, George Pohle, CEO, MediaBound 
-- July 07, Hans Decker, Executive-in-Residence, Columbia University
-- July 14, Sarah Greenberg, Team Lead, RiskMetrics 
-- July 21, Brian Trelstad, CIO, Acumen 

Go to http://www.cceia.org for the latest schedule. 

The Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs (www.cceia.org),
established in 1914 by Andrew Carnegie, is an independent, nonpartisan,
nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing understanding of the
relationship between ethics and international affairs. 



SOURCE  Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs

Madeleine Lynn of the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs,
+1-212-838-4120 ext. 222, mlynn@cceia.org
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