Much can be learned from the international stories of ethical achievement. In fact the Brookfields Business Ethics Awards is partly inspired by those offered by the Business Enterprise Trust, a grouping of American business, labour, academic, and media leaders who seek to tell what they describe as “one of the great untold stories of business”.
These examples are drawn from the US-based awards made by The Business Enterprise Trust and discussed in Aiming Higher (Bollier, 1996, AMACOM), The Business Ethics Magazine and by The Bentley Centre for Business Ethics.
One of the world’s wealthiest men and most successful investors, Warren Buffett is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Business Enterprise Trust. Commenting upon Aiming Higher he expressed the essential purpose of the awards and related resource material when he noted that “Everyone needs heroes and heroines. You will find a marvelous group of them described in this book, and we urge readers to create equally inspiring stories of their own”.
To find out more about companies commitment overseas, click on the links to the left.
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