The creation of an independent Palestine has been a dream dashed many times, but there may be a practical path forward emerging from a surprising place. I often heard the phrase ‘business is business’ growing up in the 1960s among gritty American Jewish immigrants; my father said it all the time. It reflected old Jewish instincts to do whatever it takes to survive and feed ‘the family’, even when it meant dealing with people who disliked you – a lot.

R. Gopalakrishnan, Executive Director of Tata Sons and Member of the Group Executive Board of tata Group, the largest privat enterprise in India, gave a Caux Lecture at the 'Trust and Integrity in the Global Economy' about the role of business in society. CAUXIofc spoke with Mr. Gopalakrishnan about his motivation to come to Caux, the role of consumer capitalism, the impact of eastern philosophy, the importance of context and the role of Tata and business in the global economy.

Автор: Майкл Смит, независимый журналист, писатель

Статья опубликована в Электронном Бюллетене "Деловая мысль" Центра Предпринимательства США-Россия.

La conseillère aux Etats suisse Simonetta Sommaruga est intervenue samedi dans le cadre du 3ème Forum de Caux pour la sécurité humaine sur le thème des « conditions essentielles à la sécurité humaine » à Caux-sur-Montreux. A cette occasion, elle a appelé à la responsabilité personnelle de chacun et à la responsabilité dans les domaines de la politique et des sciences.

Over the last few weeks Creators of Peace Circles have been formed all over Australia...

Mike Brown from Adelaide joined Rajmohan Gandhi and his wife Usha for a week hosted by IofC Japan, as part of the IofC International President's 14-nation “Voyage of Dialogue and Discovery”. Mike writes:

With a briefcase and a motorcycle, a banker in India gets poor communities on their feet—and, in the process, blurs the lines between finance and community organizing.

In a robust critique of the causes of the banking and economic crisis, Lord Phillips of Sudbury, Chancellor of Essex University and the founder of Bates, Wells and Braithwaite law firm, London, spoke of an ‘overarching, rampant materialism that is undermining our society’. He was addressing the fourth in a series of round-table forums on banking ethics held by Caux Initiatives for Business in the London centre of Initiatives of Change on 23 March.

En una crítica sólida sobre las causas de la crisis bancaria y económica, Lord Phillips de Sudbury, Rector de la Universidad de Essex y fundador de la firma de abogados Bates, Wells y Braithwaite, en Londres, habló sobre un "materialismo general, galopante, que está socavando nuestra sociedad". Su intervención fue el cuarto de una serie de foros de mesa redonda sobre la ética en la banca, organizados por Caux Initiatives for Business (Iniciativas de Caux para los Negocios) el 23 de marzo en el centro de Iniciativas de Cambio de Londres.

In a robust critique of the causes of the banking and economic crisis, Lord Phillips of Sudbury, Chancellor of Essex University and the founder of Bates, Wells and Braithwaite law firm, London, spoke of an ‘overarching, rampant materialism that is undermining our society’. He was addressing the fourth in a series of round-table forums on banking ethics held by Caux Initiatives for Business in the London centre of Initiatives of Change on 23 March.