Tag: Winter 2017
How good board communication can mitigate risk
The growing need for corporate accountability has shown how up-to-date, accessible information is crucial for directors—enter the digital board pack.
Artificial Intelligence: the ethical dimension
Businesses are racing to embrace the use of artificial intelligence in their products and services, but there is a right and wrong way to use it, argues Philippa Foster Back of the Institute of Business Ethics.
Hong Kong set to create independent audit regulators
New measures in Hong Kong will see the creation of an independent regulator for audit firms with the powers to investigate and impose fines.
Twenty-five years of the UK Corporate Governance Code
The first governance code was launched in Britain 25 years ago, following a set of corporate scandals. Since then, governance has evolved to tackle more complex challenges that are no longer local—they’re global, and they’re pressing.
Larry Fink: companies must make a ‘positive contribution’ to society
Larry Fink, chief executive of BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, says it will step up its engagement with boards in an effort to forge a “new model of shareholder engagement”.
Lead by example: the many benefits of ethical leadership
Ethical leadership can help avoid corporate crises if it is embraced by boards that are increasingly less tolerant of reputational risk.
Industrial strategy calls for improved reporting of capital allocation
Better reporting is needed to support “long-term” investment, says the UK government, but it is criticised for failing to mention human capital in its long-anticipated Industrial Strategy.