3 July, 2020
What’s a company for? An answer from Ancient Greece
The now venerable management scholar Charles Handy asked “What’s a Business For?” in an article published in Harvard Business Review in 2002. Charles Handy has often been ahead of the t...
2 July, 2020
The PEP framework: how business can harness the power of purpose
The needs of stakeholders in a corporate ecosystem are changing. New generations of employees who will soon make up the majority of the workforce are demanding more than just safe and fairly compensat...
29 June, 2020
Institute of Directors launches new corporate governance centre
The UK will this week become home to a new centre studying corporate governance, aimed in part at resolving issues thrown up by the Covid-19 pandemic. Established by the Institute of Directors, tho...
18 May, 2020
Business Roundtable members ‘should become benefit corporations’
Academics have called on member of the Business Roundtable—whose luminaries include Jeff Bezos of Amazon and Larry Fink of BlackRock—adopt the legal status of benefit corporations to ensure their ...
14 May, 2020
Balancing the books: the challenges of chairing a library charity
I have been chair of the board for the past 18 months at Libraries Unlimited, which is a charity representing more than 50 libraries across Devon. During this time I have found myself navigating five ...
27 April, 2020
Social factors ‘now key to good corporate governance’ says ICGN
The Covid-19 pandemic has revealed social failings and inequalities that has prompted the elevation of “social factors” to a new level of importance in corporate governance, according to a group r...
21 April, 2020
Government bail-outs indicate ‘shift in mindset’ towards societal purpose
Denmark’s recent statements on bail-outs for companies illustrates a trend seen widely at the moment: if companies want state aid they have to do right by the societies in which they do business. ...
15 April, 2020
What every business can do to help during this crisis
The 2020 Edelman Trust Barome...
7 April, 2020
Business ‘will fundamentally change’ as result of Covid-19 crisis
Business will “fundamentally” change as a result of the Covid-19 crisis, according to one of the UK’s leading experts on corporate governance. Colin Mayer, professor of management at the Saï...
7 April, 2020
