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Supply Chain Accountability: Segment B

From: Carnegie Council
Series: Just Business
Length: 14:04

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How can ethical practices be made an integral part of overseas supply chains? Here's reporter Charles Duhigg on how habits can impact the ethical behavior of businesses, and Hasbro's Alan Hassenfeld on establishing a global toy industry safety code. Read the full description.

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Just Business is a series of audio interviews that examines some of the tangled pathways that companies and civil society face. Host Julia Taylor Kennedy sits down with thought leaders across a variety of sectors to discuss the intersection between business and society.

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Just Business is a series of audio interviews that examines some of the tangled pathways that companies and civil society face. Host Julia Taylor Kennedy sits down with thought leaders across a variety of sectors to discuss the intersection between business and society.

Transcript

JULIA KENNEDY: Welcome to Just Business. I'm Julia Taylor Kennedy.

When it comes to the ethics of labor and production overseas, responsibility and accountability can get slippery. Governments can try to force companies to behave through regulation and enforcement. Big corporations, which make large purchasing orders from overseas factories on short timelines, can also require certain labor standards. Factory owners themselves can make changes. And activist organizations and reporters can try to hold all other parties responsible and accountable through independent audits and publicity.

We'll spend the next two installments of Just Business talking to different actors to see how they view responsibility and accountability for ethical practices in manufacturing and other overseas business.

Let's start with New York Times reporter Charles Duhigg, who led the team that exposed poor treat...
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Additional Credits

Deborah Carroll – Executive Producer
Julia Kennedy - Producer/Host of Just Business
Robert Smithline - Editor
Terence Hurley - Editor
Gusta Johnson - Production Assistant

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