Financial Times: Moral Money

JANUARY 17, 2023

Is it building a better world, or just empowering an unaccountable global elite?

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Tweet me: Aligning Faith with Finances: A Personal Journey -- by Rob Carney of Eventide -- [link] || #ESG #impinv #investing #faith #values #morals.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 28, 2021

The vast majority of corporations happily functioned according to the doctrine of economist Milton Freidman, who believed a company’s sole responsibility was to make gobs of money for its shareholders to roll around in. That’s going to lose us money.". So I asked him to be our moral authority.". Sponsored Article.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Join our author chat with Simon Mundy , Moral Money editor at the Financial Times and author of Race for Tomorrow: Survival, Innovation and Profit on the Front Lines of the Climate Crisis. SOURCE: Workiva. DESCRIPTION: The Chat: Shaping the Global Climate Transition for All ft. Simon Mundy.

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Caux Round Table

JANUARY 21, 2024

Here is a chart revealing what capitalism has done for humanity: While money isn’t everything (listen to the Beatles on “ Money Can’t Buy Me Love ”), it’s more helpful to living well and living long than whatever else is in second place. Smith was, first and foremost, an observing student of human nature.

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Financial Times: Moral Money

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Plus, John Kerry’s remarks at this week’s Moral Money Summit in New York

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Caux Round Table

APRIL 1, 2022

Here is the map: Now, the inference I make is based on older survey results which showed that “happiness” scores across humanity do not vary directly with money. As I recall, up to a point, more money leads to feelings of being happier, but after a point (about $10,000 US), more money does not lead to more happiness.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

GRI actively participated in the FT’s Moral Money Summit Americas 2023 at the end of October. Matthew Rusk, Head of GRI North America, served as a panelist in a session titled " Defending Your ESG Credibility - Protecting Your Business From Greenwashing Claims."

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Financial Times: Moral Money

MAY 20, 2022

Plus, five key takeaways from the Moral Money Summit Europe

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

This is where the moral leaders [will] separate themselves from the greenwashers," Paul Polman, global sustainability leader and former Unilever CEO, said in a GreenBiz 21 keynote conversation about what leadership means today. It also has pushed us to a new moment of corporate leadership. We don’t want to repeat that.

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Caux Round Table

APRIL 1, 2022

In my classes, I like to make the point that discussion of business ethics, CSR, sustainability, stakeholder capitalism and moral capitalism are relevant to real business decision-making and profitability. Can’t a profitable company just keep on making money? It takes more than money to make money.

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Caux Round Table

APRIL 26, 2022

They prefer a business model where the purpose of the company includes the power to censor user comments at variance with the morals and beliefs of the owners. The social justice issue is more exactly exploitation of suppliers who have little power to protect their moral integrity.

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Stanford Social Innovation

JANUARY 11, 2024

This addresses behaving with integrity, knowing and following moral norms and elevating moral norms to show they are alive and well. To walk your talk , organizations need to prioritize knowing, following, and modeling moral norms. Put your best foot forward. Francis Collins, M.D., Francis Collins, M.D., MMT trusts the mothers.

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Caux Round Table

MAY 6, 2022

… Moral Capitalism and Inflation? True enough, inflation shows up in markets – prices rise, the value of money sinks. during the last round of serious inflation in the 1970s: The Caux Round Table also proposes principles for moral government. Inflation hurts – and the poor more than the rich.

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Caux Round Table

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Or rather, the critics point to the system necessarily exploiting human nature – our lust for power and money at the expense of others. The Economist, in a recent article, raised yet again, though indirectly, the question of the morality of capitalism.

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Caux Round Table

APRIL 8, 2024

Having money empowers people. As Lord Acton also said: “Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Social media empowers people. What, then, keeps them from abusing their power: free markets? Fear of the Lord?

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Caux Round Table

OCTOBER 22, 2022

In effect, he refuses to accept “virtue signaling” as a constructive morality for business. In this, he indirectly ratifies the position of Adam Smith that the morality, the prudent usefulness of business is to create wealth and so improve the conditions under which humanity can live.

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3BL Media

JUNE 2, 2022

DESCRIPTION: With or without global volatility, good financial education and reassurance about long-term retirement savings strategies, portfolios, and other aspects of personal budgeting can help remove money as an extra worry that only compounds other stress. But the data also suggests that delaying only exacerbates stress.

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Caux Round Table

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

We live under the ministrations of great organizations – bureaucracies, hierarchies, peer pressure – encased in our roles, confined by rational/legal criteria of justice, subordinated to celebrity and the alure of going along to be paid for conformity with money, status or power. Who can act? Who is willing to act?

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Eco-Business

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

Eco-Business explores why people are leaving behind the big money of extraction for the wild west of renewables. As energy systems shift from fossil fuels to renewables, people are changing jobs—but for different reasons.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Improved workforce morale When your workforce sees you actively taking measures to ensure their health and safety, their productivity improves. A study by KPA and EHS Today found that the top two reasons organizations offered for why they were conducting EHS audits were to improve worker safety and increase morale.

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Caux Round Table

JANUARY 25, 2022

Some interesting odds and ends in the news have caught my attention as still more examples of the real time/real world relevance of a moral capitalism. She finds that an intangible moral force or condition – trust – has consequences which can be measured in money. What a surprise!

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3BL Media

MAY 9, 2022

Information about the featured charities’ impact is highlighted on LGA’s employee giving site and those organizations also receive money raised through the group’s Spirit week fundraising events. This incentive is how they are able to raise so much money for charity each year. Fun: LGA’s team plans a lot of events.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Showing gratitude is a key part of CSR, and it's a great way to encourage employees to continue doing their best, boost morale, build a recurring donor base, and show you recognize and appreciate your employees’ efforts. Quick Wins: Give a gift card: Who doesn't love a little extra spending money? Increase corporate morale.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Qualcomm donated over $1 million to racial justice causes including the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Asian American Advancing Justice and Community Advocates for Just and Moral Governance. Qualcomm Treasury invested $200 million in Empowering Change, a government money market fund distributed by four banks that serve minority communities.

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Caux Round Table

AUGUST 8, 2023

George Washington concluded that “Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. … It is substantially true that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government.” Ethics arise from the moral sense and conditions how we act freely.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 30, 2022

Where is money invested – traditional or renewable fuel sources? These profits have become “a moral question” for UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres. Getting there is a huge challenge for public, private, and social sectors. The capital markets are a prime battleground for interests on both sides of fossils vs. renewables.

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Caux Round Table

AUGUST 22, 2022

We also found that Italian respondents are willing to pay a significant amount of money to preserve the Colosseum. Should we even want to use the “cash nexus’ as a measure of worth of such a work of art or say, a moral achievement? Overall, we estimate the Colosseum has a total social asset value of 76.8

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Steven Mintz

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Is Whistleblowing a Moral Act? Whistleblowing can be considered a moral act if the disclosure of differences of opinion will likely change firm practices (Hoffman and Schwartz 2015) and prevent a wrong from happening (Velasquez 2011). Whistleblowing decisions do not take place in a vacuum.

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Caux Round Table

JUNE 18, 2022

Consumers, it is said, should have the right to follow their own values in the way they spend their money. But as I argued almost 20 years ago in my book, Moral Capitalism , the values of capitalism come from consumers, from buyers, not suppliers. Consumers, on the whole and in sub-markets, determine the outcomes of capitalism.

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B the Change

MARCH 6, 2023

And that does not necessarily cost more money. Imagine how different Canada would look if that money was used to support social value companies. You can see the morale move and the productivity increase,” Coldwell says. The moral imperative is just as, if not more, compelling.

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Stanford Social Innovation

JULY 19, 2023

” It decimated morale and we never got close. But we cannot just ask people for money. Twice in my career, I was fortunate enough to bring in a big gift, only to have leadership—who knew nothing about fundraising work—simply demand more money. They thought it was simply asking rich people for money.

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 29, 2022

Drucker suggested the pay ratio between CEOs and employees be a maximum of 25-to-1 (later revising that to 20-to-1, saying at the time, “I have often advised managers that a 20-to-1 salary ratio is a limit beyond which they cannot go if they don’t want resentment and falling morale to hit their companies.”

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Clean Tech Delta

APRIL 30, 2020

Dr. Toby Ord, a moral philosopher with an engineering background and working at the University of Oxford’s Future of Humanity institute , founded by Nick Bostrom , recently published the Precipice with the not very uplifting subtitle: existential risk and the future of humanity. We, humans, are moral beings after all.

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Jon Hale

MARCH 9, 2022

Of course, there is a moral component to this, as well. Do investors want to continue to pour money into China, where it helps legitimize a system lacking democracy, freedom, and human rights? As I write, the list of institutional investors pulling out of Russia is growing, as is the number of global companies cutting ties with Russia.

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3BL Media

JULY 19, 2022

We work hard, have fun and make money to win together with a values-driven culture where everyone feels connected, empowerment to serve our customers, community and each other and opportunities for individual and professional growth. Team Member Recruitment. We also give every new hire a “Training Buddy” who serves as a mentor.

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Just Capital

MARCH 11, 2022

Our running list of corporate responses was also featured in FT’s Moral Money and CEO Daily.

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