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If investors want returns, they should refuse cash
by Laurie Fitzjohn-Sykes, director of research, Tomorrow's Company Capital misallocation is one of the biggest drags on long-term UK...
Jun 16, 20161 min read
Create value, support growth
UK companies are not investing. Laurie Fitzjohn-Sykes argues that governance structures are too focused on risk aversion rather than...
Jun 13, 20161 min read
BHS and Tata Steel – extractive capitalism vs stewardship
by Mark Goyder, CEO, Tomorrow's Company Stewardship or extractive capitalism? The contrast between the two models is perfectly...
Jun 6, 20161 min read
No risk and no returns, a dirty little secret business chiefs won’t tell you
by Patrick Hosking, Financial Editor, The Times Brace yourselves for lower investment returns. So says Euan Munro, head of Aviva...
May 25, 20161 min read
Short-termism and lack of purpose is damaging UK companies
British companies are losing out – potentially by over £130bn a year – because they lack clear corporate purposes that unite all...
May 22, 20161 min read
Price, value and the cynicism of Wall Street
Oscar Wilde defined a cynic as someone who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. A recent Financial Times article...
May 19, 20161 min read
Investors need to do their job
by Andrew Hill, Associate Editor and Management Editor at the Financial Times Today's boards are too focused on risk-aversion and not...
May 16, 20161 min read
Tomorrow’s Company Present Business Boosting Report
Tomorrow’s Company, who work with businesses to help them become a force of good in the community, have released the findings from its...
May 16, 20161 min read
UK businesses need a long-term growth agenda: report
by Vikas Vij Over the past few decades, British business has made significant progress in many areas – from better governance to leading...
May 14, 20161 min read


Launch - UK Business: What's wrong? What's next?
12th May 2016, London: Today we are launching our new report UK Business: What's wrong? What's next? (download the PDF at the end of the...
May 12, 20165 min read
Putting Shareholders First Does Not Serve Shareholders, Society or Economy
by Laurie Fitzjohn-Sykes There is rising disenchantment with the status quo. People sense that the economy serves the few not the many....
May 12, 20161 min read
Companies' approach to investment 'short-sighted', report says
A report by Tomorrow's Company has discovered that long-term investments by businesses have fallen in recent years, in relation to the UK...
May 12, 20161 min read


A tale of two retailers
In 2007, the UK supermarket group Sainsbury’s faced a private equity bid. The Sainsbury family fought off the bid. Writing about it six...
May 12, 20163 min read
The pink pound points the way
Mike Tuffrey is Co-founding Director of Corporate Citizenship. Short-termism in the boardroom doesn’t just damage investors, it hurts us...
May 9, 20161 min read
Is there a growing business case to take a long-term approach to corporate tax?
In the wake of the Panama Papers the European Commission has stepped up pressure on the tax affairs of multinationals, with proposals...
Apr 18, 20166 min read
Family-owned businesses flourishing in Kingdom
By Khalil Hanware, Arab News JEDDAH: Family businesses will grow further and flourish in the Kingdom, says a top Saudi industrialist. ...
Apr 12, 20162 min read
British expert charts way forward for Saudi family businesses, CMA
By Siraj Wahab, Arab News JEDDAH: Pioneering British writer, speaker and thinker Mark Goyder says family-owned businesses are the...
Apr 11, 20167 min read
The Romance of Commerce
I have been watching a series on the life of Gordon Selfridge which has just come to an end. While it focused on his private life,...
Mar 29, 20162 min read
Is the concept of a learning organisation still relevant today?
The other day I was listening to a group of people in their late 20s/early thirties and heard one of them say "the problem with the older...
Mar 23, 20162 min read
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