If there is a culprit behind the dismal state of corporate governance today, INSEAD Professor Ludo Van der Heyden blames Wall Street capitalism.

"Wall Street capitalism is 'unfair capitalism'", claims Van der Heyden, who is The Solvay Chaired Professor of Technological Innovation and Academic Director of INSEAD's new Corporate Governance Initiative.

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In the aftermath of the economic crisis many governments are calling for tighter banking regulations to keep such a debacle from ever happening again. But Harald Hau, Associate Professor of Finance at INSEAD, says better bank governance may actually be a more effective answer to the problem - an insight which emerges from taking a closer look at the German experience. 

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Johnson & Johnson, the New Jersey-based, publicly-listed manufacturer of healthcare products, is the world's largest medical device company, the fourth largest biotech and eighth largest pharmaceutical company in the world.

Some seven billion dollars went into research last year ... and then there is the Johnson & Johnson Trust, set up in 2007 to fund partnerships and grassroots philanthropy to support the company's principles in the EMEA region (Europe, Middle East and Africa). Read more..

Trust is the foundation of sustainable development. As the world continues to get smaller, our mutual interdependence increases and we all need to be able to mobilise the resources and goodwill of others to achieve success. That can only be achieved through gaining their trust. Therefore, the ability to gain the trust of global financial markets and of all the stakeholders in the value chain is becoming the key to success.  Read more..