Surveys

Survey of Investors and Professonal Financial Advisors on Corporate Governance and Reputation Issues – October 2007, by FTI Consuting and FD Financial Dynamics. Click here.

 Ethics Resource Center’s 2007
National Business Ethics Survey 
an Inside View of Private Sector Ethics
Fifth in a longitudinal study of U.S. workplaces

Ethics Resource Center Paper

Leading Corporate Integrity: Defining the Role of the Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer

Two Conference Board Research Reports

Universal Conduct
An Ethics and Compliance Benchmarking Survey
By Ronald E. Berenbeim

Resisting Corruption
How Company Programs Are Changing
By Ronald E. Berenbeim

The Conference Board Creates and disseminates knowledge about management and the marketplace to help businesses strengthen their performance and better serve society.

Working as a global, independent membership organization in the public interest, they conduct research, convene conferences, make forecasts, assess trends, publish information and analysis and bring executives together to learn from one another.

An authority on business ethics and corporate governance issues, Mr. Berenbeim has written 35 Conference Board studies. Mr. Berenbeim is currently primary researcher and director for the Conference Board Working Group on Global Business Ethics and Principles.

For more information on the Conference Board www.conference-Board.org

The Network, Inc. and CSO Executive Council Announce First-Ever Hotline/Helpline Benchmarking Report

—The Network, Inc., the leading provider of ethics and compliance hotline programs for nearly 25 years, and the CSO Executive Council, an international professional membership organization for leading senior security executives, today announced the completion of the 2006 Corporate Governance and Compliance Hotline Benchmarking Report. This is the first ever large-scale hotline study of its kind. The study summarizes the hotline data compiled from nearly 200,000 reports received over a four-year period from more than 500 client organizations of The Network.

For more information regarding this benchmarking report, please contact The Network via email at benchmarking@reportline.net

America'S Top 10 Rated Companies for Social Responsibility

As published in Fortune Magazine March 2004.

1. United Parcel Service
2. Alcoa
3. Washington Mutual
4. BP
5. McDonald's
6. Procter & Gamble
7. Fortune Brands
8. Altria (Philip Morris)
9. Vulcan Materials
10. American Express

.Fortune subscribers can view the complete list by visiting Fortune's Web site.

Best in Show Cross-Industry Corporate Compliance Survey (PDF)

Ethics Programs . . . The Role of the Board: A Global Study

Authors: Jeffrey M. Kaplan, Ronald E. Berenbeim
Publication Date: February 2004
Report Number: R-1344-04-RR
This report, based on a survey of 165 companies worldwide, is a response to global interest in discussing the proper role for company boards in the design, implementation, and monitoring for effectiveness of company ethics programs and the need for internal board processes to assure stakeholders of director adherence to ethical standards.

• Board Involvement in Ethics Programs: Not a New or Distinctly U.S. Phenomenon
• Board Oversight of Ethics Programs: Roles Vary Worldwide
• Board Review of Ethics Programs
• Ensuring the Board's Ethical Conduct
• Increasing Board Involvement Contributes to Program Effectiveness

Executive Summary (7 pgs)     Price: $25.00

Research Report (35 pgs)       Price: $140.00

Click here to purchase this report in hard copy or to download instantly in PDF format.