By Keith Darcy and Morgan Hamel Conclusion The expectations of stakeholders of business have grown substantially over the past several decades and will continue to expand as the awareness and consciousness of society members continue to be raised through advanced media and information delivery systems. Perceiving social responsibility, however, as building shared value rather thanContinue reading “A New Era of Stakeholder Activism: Why We Are Disoriented and What to Do About It – Part 3”
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A New Era of Stakeholder Activism: Why We Are Disoriented and What to Do About It – Part 2
An Essay by Keith Darcy and Morgan Hamel Previously, employees and other stakeholders were reluctant to raise concerns and lacked an effective means to do so. Today, however, social media has changed the game completely – stakeholders everywhere have awakened to their power to demand seismic changes in the way businesses conduct themselves. A reportContinue reading “A New Era of Stakeholder Activism: Why We Are Disoriented and What to Do About It – Part 2”
A New Era of Stakeholder Activism: Why We Are Disoriented and What to do About It
By Morgan Hamel and Keith Darcy Part 1 Background In 1970, Alan Toffler and his wife, Adelaide Farrell, wrote a best-selling book, Future Shock, wherein he defined the title of the book as “disorientation due to premature accelerated change.” Toffler wrote that the speed of change leaves us confused and disoriented. Looking back, however, theContinue reading “A New Era of Stakeholder Activism: Why We Are Disoriented and What to do About It”
At 50
For Lynneby Keith Darcy On June 17, 1972 I married the love of my life. We met in college when I was a senior and she a freshman. It was love at first sight. I was immediately smitten by Lynne, a beautiful brunette filled with sunshine, unbridled joy, and optimism. It was at a timeContinue reading “At 50”
I Believe
Growing up in the Bronx in the 1950s I was still in my single digits. Television was in its infancy. Our first t.v. had a three inch screen, and later we graduated to a thirteen inch set, both black and white. One of my favorite shows in those early days was Peter Pan starring MaryContinue reading “I Believe”
God’s Work and Conflicts of Interest
[Click above to download full article to be published in REVUE INTERNATIONALE DE LA COMPLIANCE ET DE L’ÉTHIQUE DES AFFAIRES.] U.S. Supreme Court, June 21, 2021, Goldman Sachs et. al. v. Arkansas Teachers Retirement System et. al. Background In November 2009, the world was still recovering from the catastrophic impact of the Great Recession. In responseContinue reading “God’s Work and Conflicts of Interest”
Back to the Future?
By Keith Darcy After all we’ve been through, how do we get back to the future? And is that the future we want to get to? As we all know too well, the fallout from the pandemic has been overwhelming. Fear, combined with social isolation, has resulted in unimagined loneliness and depression. Death and griefContinue reading “Back to the Future?”
A Failure of Leadership
Most of us remember exactly where we were and what we were doing on the morning of September 11, 2001. I remember the day clearly. At 8:50 a.m., I was sitting with the bank’s CFO in a conference room facing the Hudson River and New York Harbor at our headquarters in lower Manhattan. We wereContinue reading “A Failure of Leadership”
Ethics and Compliance in a Pandemic Environment
The life-threatening pandemic, along with the global economic collapse, raise significant new risks for organizations everywhere. Ethics and compliance executives are challenged to deal with these new (ab)normal conditions, while facing considerable pressure to do “more with less.” This article explores these issues, and calls attention to how and where risk managers need to prioritize their time and activities in order to manage against a tsunami of increasing risks.
A Reflection: Arthur Ashe
As a lifelong competitive tennis player, tennis has been my refuge from the day-to-day battle with the world; a place where I can trash talk with my friends, hit some winning shots, and mishit many more losing ones than I hate to admit. For sure, I‘ve had some accomplishments on the courts in days goneContinue reading “A Reflection: Arthur Ashe”