At the same time, several CEOs representing the world’s most ethical companies, as designated by the Ethisphere Institute, were gathered in New York City at the think tank’s 11th Annual Global Ethics Summit for an entirely different and positive reason. During the day I had the opportunity to have private interviews with several CEOs. In fact, Ethisphere’s own Ethics Premium study shows how companies deemed as ethical perform considerably better as compared to the Large Cap Index. On Tuesday evening, at a gala in New York City, the night before the opening of the Global Ethics Summit, Ethisphere honored 128 companies whose ethics and compliance programs qualified for the designation of World’s Most Ethical Companies -- in stark contrast to the unsavory news that would break the next day. Such spectacle compared to accolades should encourage all CEOs to take inventory of their compliance and ethics programs.

Source: Forbes March 19, 2019 17:15 UTC