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Introduction Principia’s inaugural network debate examined some of the ethical challenges posed by emerging new technologies, with implications for governance, accountability, and operational risk. Annabel Gillard, Michael Skerker and Patrick Taylor Smith brought perspectives from across philosophy, policy and practice to a topic that remains deeply contested. Current debates surrounding emerging technologies have reached an […]
How Ethical Decision Making Frameworks Enhance Strategic Thinking When leaders face complex decisions, cognitive biases often narrow our field of vision. We default to familiar metrics, overlook peripheral stakeholders, and underestimate long-term implications. Traditional business frameworks, while valuable, can compound this problem by focusing solely on quantifiable metrics, familiar solutions and immediate outcomes. The result? Critical […]
At Principia, we help leaders of complex organizations to respond effectively when an ethics crisis hits. We do this by enabling leaders to rapidly diagnose the root causes of ethical failure, remediate them, and drive cultural renewal. In the following article, David Rodin, Founder of Principia, reveals five crucial insights into the ways leaders can […]
ESG regulation, specifically the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and the Directive on Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence (CSDDD) will enhance transparency over companies’ sustainability performance. In heavily regulated sectors like healthcare, there is a longstanding tendency to focus on what ‘we can do’ according to regulation, rather than what ‘we should do’ to align […]
Professional services firms are facing heightened scrutiny on ethics and integrity. In the audit sector, high-profile failures have prompted calls for urgent reform to safeguard market integrity. In consulting, ethical lapses and complicity in widespread harms are drawing attention to the ethics of the industry. And law firms are feeling growing pressure to pay attention […]
“Speaking with so many CEOs, I realized how stressed they are. They feel they are overexposed, that they need to know everything. There are so many moving pieces. Ethics is a way of managing these challenges and complexities.” Gonzalo Brujo, Global CEO at Interbrand Ethics – A Powerful Market Differentiator This insight captures neatly the […]
CSR. ESG. Purpose. Code of Conduct. There’s an endless succession of acronyms and phrases that companies use to describe what a moral philosopher would call “ethics.” Or, put simply: how individuals and organizations can do right by others.
In late 2022, then director of artificial intelligence at Tesla, Andrej Karpathy, shared on Twitter that 80% of his code was written by AI, adding: “I don’t even really code, I prompt and edit”. Artificial intelligence that can generate data (generative AI) promises to revolutionize the world of work, and yet this new technology comes […]
Listen to The RIGHT Kind of Uncomfortable now to learn from our chief executive’s experience and gain valuable insight into the ethics of business. In this candid conversation, Sarah Miller talks to James Pogue about the conversations she has had with global business leaders and their perspectives on the current state of organizational ethics. They […]
Reproductive rights have become a central workplace topic in the past two months, following the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling which overturned Roe vs Wade and removed the constitutional right to abortion.