Keynote address: Business Ethics and the Veil of Ignorance
IBE Chair Flora Page KC delivers the Keynote Address at the 2025 ICAEW Conference
04 November 2025
A little help
IBE’s Associate Director, Prof. Chris Cowton, reflects on the role of ethical decision-making models, the subject of our latest research report.
22 March 2023
FTSE 100 Ethical Decision-Making Models: good questions, good answers?
This report analyses the ethical decision-making models contained in the codes of ethics of the UK’s leading companies, the FTSE 100.
20 March 2023
Financial Services Culture Board - 2021 FSCB Employee Survey
The FSCB surveyed over 45,000 employees to understand their views on the following 9 characteristics: honesty, respect, openness, accountability, competence, reliability, resilience, responsiveness, and shared purpose. The IBE has picked out some key findings that are directly relevant to business ethics.
11 November 2021
FTSE 100 Codes of Ethics: room for improvement
An assessment of the Codes of Ethics of the UK’s leading companies.
09 August 2021
We All Make Mistakes – But Can We Learn from Them?
In our latest guest blog, Corinne Fenech, discusses why unethical decision making is not above any of us, why this matters, and what each of us can do about it.
26 May 2021
Ethics challenges for new employees and those changing jobs
Read our latest guest blog by By Kirk O. Hanson, Coauthor of Rotten: Why Corporate Misconduct Continues And What To Do About It.
12 May 2021
The Ethics Study 2021 - Principia
This study, conducted by Principia in conjunction with Clifford Chance, the International Chamber of Commerce, GlobeScan, INvolve, and the Institute of Business Ethics, was designed to provide insights into how organisations are reacting to new ethical challenges and gauge leaders’ views on how best to build an ethical culture.
29 March 2021
Ethics Goes Viral: pandemic dilemmas
Review the webinar recording, dilemmas and voting results of our previous series.
15 October 2020
Dilemma: Recycling
This dilemma addresses issues of conflicts of interest, environmental responsibility and duty of confidentiality.
17 August 2019
Beyond Law: Ethical culture and GDPR
What are the wider ethical implications of GDPR? How can an organisation’s values be embedded and monitored so that the new regulation becomes a measure of those, rather than simply a set of compliance rules that must be ticked off?
30 May 2018
Using Behavioural Ethics to improve your Ethics Programme
This IBE Research Report focuses on how people make decisions and what can influence them.
10 April 2018
Culture Indicators: understanding corporate behaviour
This Board Briefing sets out to help boards through its examination of a range of relevant indicators and how to interpret them.
01 March 2018
Ethics Ambassadors: promoting ethics on the front line
How can an organisation support large numbers of employees in multiple locations in doing the right thing when faced with an ethical dilemma?
06 April 2017
Enhancing the Effectiveness of the Ethics Function
How to support employees in living up to the organisation’s ethical values in their day-to-day business activity remains the key challenge for business. An ethics function holds a vital role in making sure that ethics is part of all business operations and that the core values are embedded and reflected in the organisation’s culture.
20 October 2016
