LONDON — Gone are the days when annual general meeting season, the time of year when executives and directors of publicly traded companies gather to report on their activities, accounts and plans to shareholders, went by unnoticed.

LONDON — “Deeds, not words!” Britain’s suffragettes shouted, as they fought for, and won, the right to vote 100 years ago. Today, that call to arms seems more apt than ever.

Business ethics are again making headlines.

In mid-August, alt-right, neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups, including the Ku Klux Klan, gathered in Charlottesville, Virginia, for a demonstration that ended with a white supremacist driving a car into a crowd of counterprotesters, killing one and injuring 19.President Donal

Suppose that a company’s board is seeking a new CEO. After an agonisingly long search, its members decide to go with a newcomer to the industry, claiming that the candidate will make the firm the market leader again.

The car-hailing app Uber’s board members and investors have received an outpouring of praise in recent days for forcing CEO Travis Kalanick to resign.They do not deserve it.

From the moment Donald Trump entered the US presidential race, the potential for an unprecedented array of ethics violations, stemming from his global business interests, has been a ticking time bomb, set to detonate on January 20, 2017.Boom.Plenty of other liberal democracies ha

On the 27th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the United States elected a president who plans to build an even bigger wall, this time on the border with Mexico.Now, President-elect Donald Trump must decide whether he wants to plough forward with his divisive agenda or a

The late US senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan famously said: “Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.”That may be true.