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• BBC World News (11 September 2007)
  Mark Goyder, Founder Director, pays tribute to the work and impact of Anita Roddick.

   

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• The Gazette (10 September 2007)
  Mark Goyder on Sir Stuart Hampson's role in Tomorrows Company.
   
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• The Daily Telegraph (7 August 2007)
  Talent doesn't wear pin-stripes
   
  Philip Sadler, Senior Research Fellow and Special Advisory for the Tomorrow's Global Company inquiry, writes on people and culture in the 'How to get the best from your business'.
   
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• Parliamentary Brief (August 2007)
  Mark Goyder writes about just what the Tomorrow's Global Company inquiry involved and what it means for business.
   
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• Business Plus (August 2007)
  Beyond Compliance.
   
  Businesses can't sit around and expect governments to provide the framework for a new way of doing business. Mark Goyder explains why to Dick O'Brien.
   
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• The Responsible Business Yearbook 2007
  Tell us your Story, warts and all.
   
  CR reporting means defining company values and communicating them as inclusively and transparently as possible, says Mark Goyder.

   

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• Financial Times (3 July 2007)
  The big picture: 'We want regulation'.
   
  Alison Maitland discusses the growing importance of regulatory frameworks to guide markets.
   
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• ATCA (24 June 2007)
  Mark Goyder and Tony Manwaring write on the key findings of the major inquiry report "Tomorrow's Global Company: Challenges and Choices", which was lauched in London on June 18th and in India in July 2007.
  
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• Today Programme- Radio 4 (18 June 2007)
  Sir Mark Moody-Stuart was interviewed about the inquiry on the Today Programme at 6.25am on Monday 18 June.
   
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• CNBC Europe (18 June 2007)
  CNBC's Martin Baccardax speaks to Mervyn Davies and Mark Moody-Stuart about the Tomorrow's Company study.
   
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• Independent on Sunday (17 June 2007)
  Tessa Thornily writes of the growth of  the recycling industry.
   
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• Independent on Sunday (17 June 2007)
  In the article 'Soul mining', Andrew Murray-Watson reviews the 'Tomorrows Global Company: Challenges and Choices' report and its relevence to global business today.
   
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• ATCA (13 June 2007)
  Mark Goyder and Tony Manwering write to the ATCA on the key findings of the major inquiry 'Tomorrows Global Company: Challenges and Choices'.
   
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• Financial Times (12 June 2007)
  Stay in control or a wold full of 'events, dear boy, events'.
   
  Stefan Stern writes on the growing importance of corporate responsibility.
   
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• Ethical Corporation Magazine (March 2007)
  The market will judge, given a full hearing
   
  The power of today's private equity groups is unprecedented. Their non-public status means we should make extra sure we know what we're dealing with, says Mark Goyder.
   
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• Arab News (27 February 2007)
  Honesty is a business must
   
  Coverage of Mark Goyder's recent speech at the Jeddah Economic Forum in Saudi Arabia.
   
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• Financial Times (31 January 2007)
  Why values must still matter to tomorrow's companies
   
  Sir Stuart Hampson writes about the importance of values
   
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• Accountancy Age (11 January 2007)
  The business of the future: an honest assessment
   
  Mark Goyder's thoughts on the corporate scandals we have seen.
   
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• Ethical Corporation Magazine (March 2006)
  Mark Goyder explains how the combined, misplaced, opposition of the CBI and the UK Treasury led to the demise of OFR.
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• Ethical Corporation Magazine (October 2006)
  Mark Goyder argues that there is an important role for the media to promote enterprise, most notably in the engineering sector.
   
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• Ethical Corporation Magazine (February 2006)
  Trade associations should be adopting a more professional attitude, promoting ethical business to their members, argues Mark Goyder.
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• Ethical Corporation Magazine (January 2006)
  Mark Goyder delves once more into what companies are for.
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• Evening Standard (24 November 2004)
  Anthony Hilton
  Lack of return is the key.
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• Director Magazine (June 2004)
  Mark Goyder, Director of the Month Interview. Interview with Mark Goyder, Director, Tomorrow's Company and Director of the Month.
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• Sunday Telegraph (13 June 2004) Sykes wants 'Hippocratic oath' for investment sector
  An independent inquiry led by Sir Richard Sykes, the former chairman of GlaxoSmithKline, will this week call on the investment industry to sign up to a new code of conduct in a bid to restore public trust.
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• Financial Times (6 May 2003) Generating ideas out of adversity
  In his 2001 review of UK institutional investing, Paul Myners wrote: "I regard our strong funded pensions system as a key national asset." However, some fault lines have since been exposed and the Sykes Committee remit to design a better investment system could not have come at a better time.... Download document
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• Financial Times (28 April 2003) Helping investment systems take to the skies
  Very few people would argue that the current UK investment system works highly effectively. I have had the chance to experience its complexities as a saver and as chairman of pension trustees for BAA. The stewardship role involves responsibility for the savings of more than 10,000 employees: the total amount totalling more than £1bn....
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• Financial Times (14 April 2003) Defining the optimal investment system
  If it ain't broke, don't fix it. That old adage was often heard on the lips of fund managers when Paul Myners, former chairman of Gartmore, was preparing his government-commissioned report on the UK's investment industry. Fund managers warned that the government was "playing with fire" by tampering with an industry that was recognised as a world-leader...
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• Business West (April 2006)
  Mark Goyder and others disscuss the CSR aspect of the 2012 London.
   
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• Parliamentary Brief (1 August 2006)
  Wanted: smart laws for smart businesses.
   
  Mark Goyder argues that in tomorrow's world what Britain needs is not less regulation but a clear framework of rules which free companies to play the game they know best- winning business for the good of us all.
   
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• Financial Times (25 July 2006)
  Four questions for tomorrow's leviathans

   

  An inquiry backed by 11 leading businesses to find common rules for international companies launched today, reports Alison Maitland.

   

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• The Guardian (15 February 2003) No quick fix for broken investment cycle
  There can be no doubt that the investment system is broke. How to fix it, that is the issue. The government and its authorities have heaped inquiry upon inquiry, with little evidence of consequential legislation. The financial industry has hunkered down in the hope that these squalls will blow themselves out. As yet, there are few signs of the necessary behavioural change.
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• The Times (15 February 2003) Inquiry seeks to take investments into 21st Century
  PROMINENT figures from industry, finance and education are to draw up a blueprint for reform of the UK's "complex and inefficient" investment business. Led by Sir Richard Sykes, Rector of Imperial College and former chairman of pharmaceuticals giant GlaxoSmithKline, a 15-strong group of businesspeople and City investors will conduct a nine-month inquiry under the auspices of Tomorrow's Company, an independent think-tank.
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• Financial Times (7 April 2003) Letter to the Editor
  Sir, Much as I welcome the Institute of Business Ethics' evidence about the pay-off from ethical behaviour (report, April 3), there is a danger of oversimplifying the so-called business case. Successful organisations are built on strong relationships, especially those with customers, employees, communities and business partners. Relationships depend on trust; and trust is generated by consistent behaviour. Leaders lay the foundations for success by defining and living the purpose, values and strategy of the company; sound ethics is one by-product of this leadership.
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• Investor Relations Magazine - April Issue, Emphasis on the...
  A November 2001 booklet entitled Environmental Information in the Mainstream Equity Sector informs us that 'if the capital markets were to exercise preference for companies with superior environmental performance, this would constitute a powerful mechanism for environmental self-regulation in the market.' This is, of course, a very big if, admits Mark Stoughton, project manager of the faculty reporting project at the Tellus Institute, a non-profit research and consulting organization focused on sustainability, and one of the authors of the booklet. Nonetheless, with the rapid growth of socially responsible investment (SRI) in recent years, many investors are indeed placing greater emphasis on environmental performance.
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• Director Magazine (April 2003) Editorial
  There was at least one group that was relieved by the mid-March ultimatum to Saddam Hussein. As an invasion of Iraq grew in certainty, the stockmarkets rose accordingly, buoyed on the hope of a quick victory by US and UK troops. It's what one economist has called the "relief rally", when an end to uncertainty triggers a brief return of confidence on Wall Street and in the City...
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• Sunday Telegraph (16 March 2003) Sir Richard Sykes Interview
  Poor, beleaguered savers have a champion at last. Mary Fagan talks to the no-nonsense Yorkshireman leading the inquiry into the UK investment business Sir Richard Sykes, the combative former chief executive of GlaxoSmithKline, has never been one to mince his words. He has been outspoken in his defence of the pharmaceuticals industry in which he made his career and in the promotion of British science and technology.
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• Financial Times (14 February 2003)
  Sykes outburst widely deplored
  Sir Richard Sykes, the former chairman of GlaxoSmithKline, rocked small shareholders last week when he said they should be barred from company meetings, complaining that their questions were disruptive.
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• Financial Times (17 November 2003) The costly art of selling...
  The statistic of the month from Ned Cazalet, the independent analyst who persists in talking sense about life assurance. The UK life sector's spending on overall administration and new business acquisition in 2002 was, he says, a staggering £12b....
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• The Guardian (14 February 2003) The Don't-let-it-happen-here committee
  Over here, an impressive team of business leaders and market professionals launched a self-funded inquiry yesterday to decide whether (to put it bluntly) the entire investment system needs to be torn up and reconstructed.
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• Restoring Trust press release (15 June 2004)
  A new report published today (June 15th) concludes that the trust and confidence of investors has been damaged; calls for an industry-wide culture change that puts the customer first; and recommends changes in the way institutional investors fulfill their ownership responsibilities. The report warns that the only way for the UK investment system to deliver better value to its customers is for concerted and collective action by the industry itself, starting with a high level statement of what it stands for.
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• Saturday Guardian (19 June 2004)
  Edmond Warner
  Bullish Elephants will probably forget.
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• BBC Radio 4 (19 June 2004)
  Mark Goyder interviewed by Paul Lewis for Money Box
  Call for industry culture change.
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• BBC Radio 4 (27 July 2004)
  'Nice Work' - Mark Goyder discusses the future of worker power.
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• Cantos TV (July 2003) Ken Lever, Finance Director, TOMKINS plc Interview
  I think the trend towards additional work and time being spent in this area is something that has been going on for some time. If you look back over, say 20 years, and think about the size of an annual report 20 years ago and compare them today, it is a very different document. But the recent developments which I think have added significantly (probably to the onus of the finance function rather than necessarily just the finance director) are things associated with corporate governance and regulation and the increase in complexity of accounting. ...
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• The Times (5 February 2003) Still Room at the top…
  SIR RICHARD SYKES is not renowned for his high tolerance levels. As chairman of GlaxoSmithKline, it must have been agonising for him to have to endure the questioning of petulant shareholders at the annual meeting. Now he wants his revenge.
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• RSA Journal (1 October 2006)
  As the Companies Bill becomes law Neil Sherlock is confident that it will benefit small companies and foster long-term sustainability in UK business.
   
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• Evening Standard (9 November 2006)
  Sincerity? Let's just Binney it
  Anthony Hilton
   
  Coverage in relation to the latest publication from Tomorrow's Company on corporate purpose and values.
   
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• Financial Times (7 November 2006)
  Stefan Stern looks at the question of corporate purpose and values.
   
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• Ethical Corporation Magazine (June 2006)
  Understanding who owns our biggest companies is becoming difficult, and the connection between fundamentals of a firm and its share price is weakening, writes Mark Goyder.
   
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• Ethical Corporation Magazine (April 2006)
  Mark Goyder says there are ways of brekaing down the crowd mentality and setting up direct lines of communication wtihin companies that can have powerful effects.
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• BBC Radio 5 Live (5 February 2003) Wake up to Money
  Interview with Mark Goyder, Director, Tomorrow's Company.
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• R Magazine (14 February 2003)
  Tomorrow's Company ready to roll
  The 21st Century Investment Inquiry, a Tomorrow's Company-sponsored investigation into the relationship between investment and wealth creation, is gearing up and ready to go. The names of the 14 members of the team, which will be chaired by Sir Richard Sykes, former chief executive of GlaxoSmithKline, will be announced tomorrow. Download article
  
  
  
  
• Financial Times (5 February 2003) Yikes Sykes!
  Sir Richard Sykes, the former chairman of GlaxoSmithKline, is not a man to mince words. In an interview with the FT published yesterday he took issue with large investors for being pathetically inactive and not attending annual meetings to grill managements.
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• BBC Radio 4 (14 February 2003) The Today Show
  Interview with Sir Richard Sykes.
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• The Times (8 February 2003)
  Sid's AGM outing comes under fire from top table
  The privatisations of the 1980s introduced wide-eyed investors to that curious ritual, the annual general meeting (AGM). They turned up in their thousands to exercise their democratic right to consume tea and biscuits before retiring to hear the chairman reflect on the year's events. Download article
  
  
  
  
• Financial Mail on Sunday (9 February 2003) Shareholders need help, not just a bashing
  Big Shareholders are 'pathetic'. Their failure to hold our major companies to account is a 'sin'. And as for small shareholders: they are simply disruptive wastes of time who do little more than munch sandwiches and ask inane questions at annual meetings.
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• Financial Times (10 February 2003) Funds call for 20-year masterplan
  An international consortium of leading pension funds is to challenge the fund management industry to come up with radical proposals for a ground-breaking 20-year mandate or face the possibility of losing control of vast amounts of retirement money.
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• Financial Times (14 February 2003) Review into investments
  Sir Richard Sykes, former chairman of GlaxoSmithkline and rector of Imperial College London, will today announce the launch of an inquiry into the effectiveness of the UK investment system, backed by some of the City's biggest business leaders.
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• Cantos TV (14 February 2003) John Sunderland Interview
  Tomorrow's Company, a business led think-tank, has launched an inquiry into the effectiveness of the UK's current investment system and the problems and pressures it faces as a consequence of the falling value of stock markets.
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• Financial Times (24 November 2004)
  Sundeep Tucker
  Savings industry wakes up to need for radical change.
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• Sunday Telegraph (9 February 2003)
  AGM Theatres and Blue Sky waffle
  Proposals by Sir Richard Sykes, the former chairman of GlaxoSmithkline, to exclude small shareholders from annual meetings, seem to reveal an unpleasant side of the business elite.
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• The Times (8 February 2003) Shareholders should be inside the board
  Yet another inquiry has been set up into the relations between investors, companies and wealth creation. Don't groan. This one, sponsored by Tomorrow's Company, is to be led by Sir Richard Sykes, former boss of Glaxo.
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• BBC Radio 4 (5 February 2003) The Today Show
  Interview with Mark Goyder, Director, Tomorrow's Company.
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• Legal Week (9 January 2003) Turbulent Times
  The Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) initiated a major study of business in Britain in the mid 1990s, gathering together many leading companies and business thinkers under the banner of the Tomorrow’s Company Enquiry. The results of this study were published and are having a profound and growing influence on an increasing number of commercial organisations, large and small.
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• Financial Times (19 December 2002)
  Directors who ask the right questions
  Time must also be allowed for non-execs to understand the company and to get to know the management below the board. Mark Goyder of the Centre for Tomorrow's Company argues that directors and auditors need to know the true culture of the company, rather than the picture painted in the annual report.
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