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Will Blockchain Disrupt Government Corruption?

Will Blockchain Disrupt Government Corruption?

06-03-2018 Will blockchain technology be the next disrupting technology to revolutionize government? Probably not. Can it be a game changer in the global fight against corruption? Possibly so. New technologies are disrupting our lives and transformi...
Ethics? Yeah, that’s great, but do they scale?

Ethics? Yeah, that’s great, but do they scale?

05-03-2018 This March I'll be co-running the first ethics track for the tech conference QCon London. We've had so much enthusiasm that QCon New York has added ethics too (Americans are notoriously behind the curve). Why the interest? I suspect becau...
Preisabsprachen: Millionenstrafe für Rossmann

Preisabsprachen: Millionenstrafe für Rossmann

01-03-2018 Die Drogeriemarktkette Rossmann muss wegen illegaler Preisabsprachen eine Geldbuße in Höhe von 30 Millionen Euro zahlen. Das Oberlandesgericht Düsseldorf verurteilte das Unternehmen aus Großburgwedel in der Region Hannover am Mittwoch weg...
Why German corporate governance is so different

Why German corporate governance is so different

01-03-2018 For over a century, corporate governance evolved differently in Germany than in English-speaking countries: with a two-tier board system, where labor representatives often hold sway. To do business with German firms, foreigners need to un...
Brisante Dokumente belasten Ex-VW-Chef Martin Winterkorn

Brisante Dokumente belasten Ex-VW-Chef Martin Winterkorn

Der Druck auf den Volkswagen-Konzern in der Dieselaffäre steigt. Das Landgericht Stuttgart hat verfügt, dass der Wolfsburger Autobauer zwei Dokumente aus dem Jahr 2014 offenlegen muss, in denen dem damaligen Vorstandsvorsitzenden Martin Winterkorn de...
Where business ethics is more than a phrase

Where business ethics is more than a phrase

Google’s original motto — “Don’t be evil” — got a lot of praise at the time. How hip, how different. But it set a pretty low bar. The fact that the motto generated so much buzz was a reflection of how little we expected from the business community. ...
Fahrverbote : “Die Autoindustrie hat sich böse verzockt”

Fahrverbote : “Die Autoindustrie hat sich böse verzockt”

Das Urteil des Bundesverwaltungsgerichts zur Zulässigkeit von Diesel-Fahrverboten wird vom Mittelstand und Handwerk stark kritisiert. "Die Entscheidung gefährdet die Existenz vieler kleiner und mittlerer Unternehmen", sagte der Präsident des Mittelst...
Good corporate governance always pays off

Good corporate governance always pays off

Corporate governance principles do not follow a one-size-fits-all approach. That would elude the local contexts in which companies operate, which are key to understanding practices and behaviours as well as expectations of investors. This is importan...