Perspectives
Principia perspectives captures our latest thinking on leading-edge approaches to ethics, culture, innovation - and what it means to do the right thing.
From Blind Spots to Better Decisions
How Ethical Decision Making Frameworks Enhance Strategic Thinking When leaders face complex decisions, cognitive biases often narrow our field of vision. We default to familiar metrics, overlook peripheral stakeholders, and underestima …
How to respond to an ethics crisis
At Principia, we help leaders of complex organizations to respond effectively when an ethics crisis hits. We do this by enabling leaders to rapidly diagnose the root causes of ethical failure, remediate them, and drive cultural renewal. In …
Navigating ESG Commitments: Beyond Compliance to Ethics
ESG regulation, specifically the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and the Directive on Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence (CSDDD) will enhance transparency over companies’ sustainability performance. In heavily …
The Ethics Study 2024: Ethics & Culture in Professional Services
Professional services firms are facing heightened scrutiny on ethics and integrity. In the audit sector, high-profile failures have prompted calls for urgent reform to safeguard market integrity. In consulting, ethical lapses and complicity …
The Ethics Study 2023 – Business leaders on the ethics gap and how to close it
“Speaking with so many CEOs, I realized how stressed they are. They feel they are overexposed, that they need to know everything. There are so many moving pieces. Ethics is a way of managing these challenges and complexities.” Gonzalo Brujo …
Principia founder David Rodin talks to the Outside In podcast: “Ethics is now a defining aspect of business”
CSR. ESG. Purpose. Code of Conduct. There’s an endless succession of acronyms and phrases that companies use to describe what a moral philosopher would call “ethics.” Or, put simply: how individuals and organizations can do right by others.
The ethical challenges of generative AI
In late 2022, then director of artificial intelligence at Tesla, Andrej Karpathy, shared on Twitter that 80% of his code was written by AI, adding: “I don’t even really code, I prompt and edit”. Artificial intelligence that can generate dat …
Principia chief executive Sarah Miller talks to The RIGHT Kind of Uncomfortable podcast
Listen to The RIGHT Kind of Uncomfortable now to learn from our chief executive’s experience and gain valuable insight into the ethics of business. In this candid conversation, Sarah Miller talks to James Pogue about the conversations she h …
Q&A: What does Roe vs Wade mean for your business?
Reproductive rights have become a central workplace topic in the past two months, following the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling which overturned Roe vs Wade and removed the constitutional right to abortion.
What the FTX collapse teaches us about ethics
Wessel Reijers and Christine Jakobson argue that in the wake of the collapse of the crypto exchange FTX, amid accusations of ethics washing, there should be more focus on ethics, not less.
