Chapter 6 Additional Ethics in Action web links

Shareholders and Business Ethics

Ethics in Action 6.1 – Digital currencies: Boom or Bust?
This Forbes article looks at a number of executives who have left large technology firms to work in the world of cryptocurrencies.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/leslieankney/2019/01/21/why-these-innovators-left-facebook-google-and-more-for-crypto/#6746e1315a06

The Guardian – ‘Bitcoin: after 10 wild years, what’s next for cryptocurrencies?’
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jan/04/bitcoin-after-10-wild-years-what-next-for-cryptocurrencies

MoneyWeek – ‘A warning from the goldmining boom to today’s cryptocurrency investors’
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jan/04/bitcoin-after-10-wild-years-what-next-for-cryptocurrencies

PwC report on using blockchain technology to build a better planet.
https://www.pwc.com/gx/en/sustainability/assets/blockchain-for-a-better-planet.pdf

Ethics in Action 6.2 – Family Firms and ‘Patient Capital’: Thinking in Decades, Not Quarters
Forbes –‘Britain’s Seven Biggest Family-Owned Businesses’.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidprosser/2014/04/15/britains-seven-biggest-family-owned-businesses/#7b36b64b56ae

Forbes – ‘New Report Reveals The 500 Largest Family-Owned Companies in the World’.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/chasewithorn/2015/04/20/new-report-reveals-the-500-largest-family-owned-companies-in-the-world/#f36dd8c3602b

Forbes – ‘Five Ways To Keep A Family Owned Business In the Family for Generations’.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/brianluster/2015/12/15/five-ways-to-keep-a-family-owned-business-in-the-family-for-generations/#54095fd36759

Forbes India – ‘Successor's dilemma: To or not to take over an unethical family business’.
http://www.forbesindia.com/article/spjimr/successors-dilemma-to-or-not-to-take-over-an-unethical-family-business/49669/1

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