Tag: corporate purpose
Alison Taylor: ‘Business can do the right thing’
Taylor is optimistic that better leadership can enable purpose and sustainability to go beyond tackling reputational and regulatory risk.
On purpose: crafting an authentic statement
Purpose statements define how organisations align purpose and people. Here’s how to make a statement that truly hits the mark.
Top stories of 2022: corporate governance gets political
This year saw economic crisis, an audit reform bill, and growing calls for corporate transparency—all against a backdrop of war in Ukraine.
News round-up: this week in governance
CofE cites ‘disconnect’ in top pay; do purpose statements work?; banks and their governance mentions; Big Three fund managers ‘deferential’.
5 questions to help boards walk the green talk
It may sometimes take courage, but asking questions is the most effective thing a board director can do to address climate-related risk.
Twitter’s sale to Elon Musk leaves stakeholder governance high and dry
The company’s failure to consider in advance those affected by the deal does not bode well for stakeholder governance, write academics.
News round-up: this week in governance
COP27 call for climate change transition plans; putting purpose at the heart of business; a disappointing take on diversity Down Under.
Can ESG be saved?
There’s a storm brewing. We need to radically change the definition of governance if ESG is going to survive it.
Meta faces US lawsuit over its corporate governance
A Meta stockholder alleges that the company’s business model failed to consider the risks to society and to ‘diversified stockholders’.
Corporate efforts to define their ‘purpose’ fail to convince employees
Survey finds most staff believe their company has changed little or not at all since setting out a purpose.