Companies committed to ethical business practices do better financially and have significantly greater representation among the top 100 financial performers than companies that don't, according to a DePaul University professor's study. Yet the review of the 500 largest publicly held corporations in the United States concludes that merely having a company ethics policy is not enough. A company must also have a strong internal program to enforce its ethics policy in order to reap the financial benefits which usually result.
Recent events prove how dangerous and expensive such lack of enforcement can be.