30 October 2014, The Tablet

Adding value to business

by Charles Wookey

 
It is hoped that a dozen multinational companies will sign up to a list of key principles as part of  an initiative begun by Cardinal Vincent Nichols. Speakers at this week’s Blueprint for Better Business conference issued a call to action aimed at restoring public trust When he was group chairman of HSBC, Stephen Green (now Lord Green of Hurstpierpoint) said that many in the City operated as if there were just two questions to be answered: Is it legal? and, Is it profitable? If every business took that approach, then the project of restoring trust would fail, and rightly so.Two years ago, a group of business leaders approached the Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Vincent Nichols. They were concerned about the widespread loss of trust in business, fuelled by the financial c
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