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
Bullying: rules and values
Read the latest blog by Prof. Chris Cowton, IBE’s Associate Director.
17 November 2022
FTSE 100 Codes of Ethics: room for improvement
An assessment of the Codes of Ethics of the UK’s leading companies.
09 August 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
Building Back – Ethically
Dr Ian Peters' article for One magazine on culture and reputational challenges for all organisations. Putting values at the heart of purpose.
25 March 2021
Hugh Kay Lecture: Standards in Public Life - Are we in a Post-Nolan age?
View the recording of our webinar.
12 November 2020
Embedding Business Ethics: 2020 report on corporate ethics policies and programmes
This report is the ninth in the triennial series looking at corporate ethics policies and programmes. It is the IBE’s longest-running survey series, and continues to give valuable insights into how companies run their ethics programmes.
01 April 2020
Workplace Dignity - Willis Towers Watson
Willis Towers Watson conducted this survey with the charity Robert F Kennedy Human Rights with the aim of measuring the perspectives of senior leaders engaged in aspects of building sustainable human capital strategies and healthy company cultures while improving organisational performance.
05 February 2020
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
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
Collaboration Between the Ethics Function and HR
When embedding ethical values into organisational culture, the roles of the company Ethics and HR functions can frequently overlap. It is important therefore that they work together effectively to ensure this happens.
30 April 2014