19 October, 2020
Interview: Tesco chair John Allan on the role of non-executive directors
Tesco’s chair John Allan sees some good coming out of the pandemic. Despite the appalling tragedy playing out around the country and the world, Covid-19 has propelled big corporates to think and act...
12 October, 2020
Responsible innovation: implications for corporate governance
The world faces unprecedented grand challenges of which the recent Covid-19 pandemic is just one pertinent example. Innovation is crucial for addressing these grand challenges and business is an impor...
9 October, 2020
FRC proposes ‘public interest report’ to highlight stakeholder issues
With all the talk of stakeholder interests in business it was only a matter of time before corporate reporting began to catch up. And so it has. This week sees the UK reporting watchdog issue proposal...
16 September, 2020
Four principles to keep your business’s social purpose goals on track
The role of a business’s social purpose came to the fore in April last year. One of the largest business groups in the US—the Business Roundtable—called for companies to
4 September, 2020
Companies ‘need new mechanism’ to integrate stakeholder interests
Much has been written about how the pandemic compelled businesses to adopt more of a “stakeholder” approach to governance, thus elevating the interests of staff, customers and suppliers over those...
26 June, 2020
Top US CEO pay falls 53% as pandemic and investor pressure continues
Chief executives among the top 50 US firms have been shouldering some of the financial pain of the pandemic with large cuts to their pay. A report from governance data provider GC Analytics shows t...
24 June, 2020
Importance of culture ‘ignored by most corporate governance codes’
While companies grapple with the impact Covid-19 on business, research reveals that the importance of company culture has mostly been ignored by corporate governance codes around the world. Academi...
9 June, 2020
US public backs shift to stakeholder capitalism amid Covid-19
Capitalism is at a crossroads in the US, with almost nine out of ten people wanting large corporates to concentrate on serving their workers, customers, communities and the environment, according to n...
1 June, 2020
Covid-19 pandemic ‘has accelerated shift to stakeholderism’
There have been many claims that stakeholder capitalism is the future for business, particularly since the beginning of the Covid-19 crisis. But one group says it now has evidence that stakeholder ...
18 May, 2020
