2011 World’s Most Ethical Companies

EthiSPhere ^ | June 2011 | EthiSphere

[for-q-clinton]

The World’s Most Ethical Companies designation recognizes companies that truly go beyond making statements about doing business “ethically” and translate those words into action. WME honorees demonstrate real and sustained ethical leadership within their industries, putting into real business practice the Institute’s credo of “Good. Smart. Business. Profit.”

There is no set number of companies that make the list each year. Rather, the World’s Most Ethical Company designation is awarded to those companies that have leading ethics and compliance programs, particularly as compared to their industry peers. This year, there are 110 World’s Most Ethical Companies. Of these companies, 36 are new to the list in 2011 and 26 companies dropped off from the 2010 list. These “drop offs” generally occurred because of litigation and ethics violations, as well as increased competition from within their industry.

IT CAN PAY TO BE ETHICAL

Investing in ethics is beneficial for any company, even in a recession. The below graph compares the “WME Index,” or all publicly traded 2011 World’s Most Ethical Company honorees, against the S&P 500 since the initial World’s Most Ethical Companies recognition from 2007.

[for-q-clinton]

Interesting list. Noticed that 0 US Banks are on the list. Ford Motor is the only US car company on the list. Microsoft is on the list, but Apple and Google are not. Telecom T-Mobile made it, but ATT and Verizon did not.

Overall though there are ton of US companies in the list.

[for-q-clinton]

Tech ping please. Lots of Tech related info in this list.

[for-q-clinton]

5. The Winners…

The highest EQ scores for each industry became this year’s 2011 World’s Most Ethical Companies.

You can find more in-depth information on the methodology for 2011’s World’s Most Ethical Companies here.

2011 WORLD’S MOST ETHICAL COMPANIES:

Aerospace Indra Sistemas Rockwell Collins Inc. The Aerospace Corporation	Apparel Adidas Comme Il Faut Gap Patagonia Timberland
Auctions eBay	Automotive Cummins Denso Ford Motor Company Johnson Controls
Banking Australia and New Zealand Banking Group National Australia Bank Rabobank Standard Chartered Bank The Westpac Group	Business Services Accenture Dun & Bradstreet Noblis
Chemicals Ecolab JM Huber	Computer Hardware Hitachi Data Systems
Computer Software Adobe Systems Microsoft Salesforce.com Symantec Corporation Teradata Corporation	Construction and Engineering CRH Granite Construction Parsons Corporation
Consumer Electronics Electrolux Ricoh Xerox	Consumer Products Colgate-Palmolive Company Henkel AG Kao Corporation
Diversified Industries General Electric Co.	Electronics and Semiconductors Freescale Semiconductor Premier Farnell Texas Instruments
Energy and Utilities Encana Statoil NextEra Energy, Inc. Northumbrian Water Vestas Wind Wisconsin Energy Corporation	Engineering and Design AECOM Technology Corporation CH2M Hill Fluor Corporation
Environmental Services Waste Management	Financial Services American Express Housing Development Finance Corp NYSE Euronext The Hartford Financial Services Group
Food and Beverage General Mills PepsiCo Solae Stonyfield Farm	Food Stores Kesko The Co-Operative Group Wegmans Whole Food Market
Forestry, Paper and Packaging International Paper Stora Enso Oyj SCA	Health and Beauty Natura Cosmeticos
Healthcare Services Baptist Health South Florida Hospital Corporation of America Premier	Hotels, Travel and Hospitality Kimpton Hotels Marriott International The Rezidor Hotel Group Wyndham Worldwide
Industrial Manufacturing Caterpillar Deere & Company Eaton Corporation Milliken & Company Schneider Electric	Insurance Aflac Incorporated Sompo Japan Insurance Swiss Re Wisconsin Physicians Service Insurance Co.
Internet Zappos	Media, Publishing and Entertainment Thomson Reuters
Medical Devices Becton Dickinson Royal Phillips	Metals Umicore
Real Estate British Land plc Jones Lang LaSalle Unibail-Rodamco	Restaurants and Cafes Starbucks Coffee Company
Specialty Pharma Medicis	Specialty Retail Best Buy Co. Hennes & Mauritz Sonae Target Ten Thousand Villages
Staffing Manpower	Telecom Hardware Avaya Inc. Cisco Systems Juniper Networks
Telecom Services Singapore Telecom Swisscom T-Mobile USA	Transportation and Logistics Autoridad del Canal de Panama East Japan Railway Company Nippon Yusen Kabushi Kaisha UPS

[Da Coyote]

“....Microsoft was on the list....”

Bwahahahahahahahahah.

That pretty much negates the article doesn’t it?

You mean the company that has not had an original idea, evah?

The company that couldn’t design a 10 line code of basic without a bug?

The company who’s founder had to purchase the original OS from someone who actually had talent?

[Russ]

I would add Chick-fil-A to the restaurant list.

[WOBBLY BOB]

General Electric? seriously?

[BwanaNdege]

http://ethisphere.com/worlds-most-ethical-companies-methodology/

There seems to be a fairly high emphasis on "environmental" and "sustainable" ethics.

[RC2]

I am surprised that Intel is not on that list. I have done work for Intel and found their Engineers to be tough but highly honest. The company expects a lot but gives a lot. Just my opinion.

[OCCASparky]

Add NextEra Energy to that list of jaw-droppers.

[FormerACLUmember]

General Electric is the most corrupt (major) company in America, totally in bed with the Chicago Regime.

I am calling serious bullsh*t on this list.

[for-q-clinton]

Good point. I wonder if it’s becaue they also have a pretty big footprint in Israel that they get dinged.

[for-q-clinton]

Got any facts to back that up? I’m not saying I agree with the list, but if you want to dispute an ethics list, how about stating some facts you can back up.

Everyone knows Microsoft has embraced and extended a lot of stuff, but to say they never had an original idea is just phony.

And that they can’t wite 10 lines of basic code without a bug...once again completely false.

There are many stories about the first OS...but I don’t recall many of them acting like it was a bad thing Microsoft did. Rather it was IBM’s inept attitude toward it that let it shake out like it did. And there’s other stories as well, but none really that blame Microsoft for IBMs lack of foresight.

[vox_freedom]

T Mobile
Microsoft

Most Ethical companies, hahahahahaha, that's a good one.

[Psycho_Bunny]

The fact that Salesforce.com is on it, immediately reduces this list “laughable”.

[dusttoyou]

Nobama insisted.

[ShadowAce]

...but to say they never had an original idea is just phony.

Exactly. MS Bob is just one of several examples.

:)

[SpirituTuo]

Best Buy??? They are the kings of bait and switch, not to mention the most incompetent staff of folks I have ever encountered. They have tried to sell me a $100 hdmi cable, when there was an equivalent for $30. I asked if they both met the standard. The answer was yes. So why the cost difference? Answer: “Duh, uh, its the $100 is just better.”

[MCCC]

General Electric? seriously?

DITTO!!!

[for-q-clinton]

And clippy :-)

[BikerJoe]

They have tried to sell me a $100 hdmi cable, when there was an equivalent for $30. I asked if they both met the standard. The answer was yes. So why the cost difference? Answer: “Duh, uh, its the $100 is just better.”

Yeah, they are stupid. Even I would've at least told you that "It's de-oxygenated!". Of course, you STILL wouldn't be able to tell the difference...