Board duties should go ‘beyond their traditional role of representing shareholders’ interests’, writes a group of 15 academics.

COP27 call for climate change transition plans; putting purpose at the heart of business; a disappointing take on diversity Down Under.

Survey finds most staff believe their company has changed little or not at all since setting out a purpose.

Report from the British Academy calls for new regulatory powers that would enable watchdogs to hold directors to account.

Embedding company purpose requires businesses to think about every process their organisation operates—and accept that there will be trade-offs.

British Academy study reveals 63% of firms are taking steps to become more purposeful, while 55% think there should be government incentives.

An imagined dialogue between Milton Friedman, the economist who has come to represent the shareholder primacy world view, and Socrates.

Professor Colin Mayer says business is experiencing an “existential crisis”—and firms that can define their purpose will come out on top.

The British Academy fellow on how business purpose has moved from the slipstream to the mainstream—and how firms with defined values are best placed to survive the current pandemic.

The framework aims to guide companies and lawmakers towards policies and practices that help “profitably solve the problems of people and planet”.