In a robust critique of the causes of the banking and economic crisis, Lord Phillips of Sudbury, Chancellor of Essex University and the founder of Bates, Wells and Braithwaite law firm, London, spoke of an ‘overarching, rampant materialism that is undermining our society’. He was addressing the fourth in a series of round-table forums on banking ethics held by Caux Initiatives for Business in the London centre of Initiatives of Change on 23 March.

With a briefcase and a motorcycle, a banker in India gets poor communities on their feet—and, in the process, blurs the lines between finance and community organizing.

The Indian industrial empire that is producing social capital as well as profits.

Corruption is bad for business and bad for health, says Suresh Vazirani, Managing Director of an award-winning hi-tech company

Zimbabwean small scale farmers are benefiting from 'born again' sweet potato plants, developed by Zimbabwean scientists, that have had a damaging virus removed.

Mumbai businessman Rajendra Gandhi has made recycling a matter of moral principle.

Rebuilding after war - and rebuilding relationships - are keys to sustainable development says agriculturalist, Paul Craig

A leading apostle of employee share ownership sees worker-owned companies as a model for sharing wealth and improving company performance.

India's information technology revolution has turned the nation into a 'software superpower'. Can it help to bridge the rich-poor gap?

Shipyard worker, Ryuzaburo Kaku, rose to become Chairman of the cameras-to-copiers multinational Canon. Few Japanese businessmen have gone out on a limb the way Kaku has, in advocating a global philosophy for business.