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
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...
5 March, 2020
Section 172 reporting is an opportunity to increase transparency
For well-run companies, the new requirement to report on how their boards have discharged their duty under Section 172 (S172) of the Companies Act to "have regard to" the interests of employees, custo...
25 February, 2020
Bank of England economist Andy Haldane enters stakeholder debate
When a central banker talks about an issue, it has for all intents and purposes hit the mainstream. This week, the Bank of England’s chief economist Andy Haldane began to talk about the need to shif...
31 January, 2020
