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Cultivating a Culture of Compliance

Best of BELA Series

This Best of BELA (Business Ethics Leadership Alliance) guide focused on Culture brings together a range of resources and insights once only available to BELA members. It features data from Ethisphere’s robust assessment datasets, case studies and peer practices shared at the Global Ethics Summit, in Ethisphere Magazine, and in the Ethicast podcast. From these resources, you will:

  • Understand why an ethical culture is important
  • Gain visibility into what Fortune 500 peers are doing
  • Download resources to inform immediate improvements

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BELA Asks: Using Ambassadors to Get Culture Data

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BELA Asks: Using Ambassadors to Get Culture Data

In this BELA Asks episode, BELA Executive Chair Erica Salmon Byrne answers the question: How do I use my ambassador program to gain data points about our culture?

In our BELA Asks series, we address questions posed by members of the Business Ethics Leadership Alliance (BELA) about wider issues facing the ethics and compliance community. BELA members who have any questions at all about ethics and compliance can send them to us, and then our internal experts will provide an answer and/or direct them to a helpful resource for more information.

To learn more about BELA, please visit https://bela.ethisphere.com to request guest access to the BELA Member Resource Hub and to speak with a BELA Engagement Director.

If you have a question that you’d like answered on BELA Asks, be sure to use the BELA Concierge Service, and we will get to it as soon as we can.

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Ethicast: Introducing the 2025 World’s Most Ethical Companies

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Ethicast: Introducing the 2025 World’s Most Ethical Companies

Erica Salmon Byrne, Chief Strategy Officer and BELA Executive Chair, explains how this year’s honorees exemplify the changing nature of best practices in business integrity. Also, a look at the numbers within the Five-Year Ethics Premium and advice for companies that want to apply for next year’s recognition. Hear about:

  • Top takeaways from this year’s honorees
  • Where best-in-class E&C programs are investing their time, energy, and resources
  • How the Five-Year Ethics Premium shows that integrity creates value
  • Why the World’s Most Ethical Companies recognition matters now more than ever

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2025 Ethics Premium

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2025 Ethics Premium

2025 Ethics Premium

Ethisphere compares the five-year financial performance of the publicly listed World’s Most Ethical Companies honorees against a comparable index of large cap companies. This comparison reveals a connect between good ethical practices and financial performance, and is called the Ethics Premium.

World’s Most Ethical Companies honorees continuously outperform peers and competitors, demonstrating a link between ethical behavior and financial performance. This outperformance is the result of the kinds of practices that lead a company to be recognized—investments in their people, culture and communities.

This year, the Ethics Premium is 7.8% from January 2020 to January 2025, demonstrating a tangible ROI for doing the right thing.

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World’s Most Ethical Companies® Application Prep Kit

World’s Most Ethical Companies

World’s Most Ethical Companies Application Prep Kit

Looking to learn more about the World’s Most Ethical Companies® application process? Download the Application Preparation Kit today to get a full understanding of how the application process works.

Fill out the form to receive a kit and communication aimed at helping you:

  • Access important information to help you secure buy-in and take the first step toward potential recognition as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies
  • Learn more about the application, the benefits of applying, the timeline, and the resources you will need to have available once open enrollment begins.
  • Gain access to insider guides meant to provide examples to help you prepare your application.
  • Stay on track with timely and relevant reminders sharing helpful information, resources, and direction related to a successful application submission—leading right up to this year’s open enrollment period.