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The Risk of "Making Money"
by Bill Sharon The only organization that makes money is a bank. The Federal Reserve creates or “prints” money. As the effective interest...
Oct 24, 20103 min read
Sustainability - Obvious, tricky to justify, hard to implement
by Neil Walmsley Over the past decade, business leaders have been bombarded with endless encouragements to ‘go green’, minimise their...
Oct 18, 20105 min read
Business leaders get the E-factor! From Mansion House to the Upper Chattahoochee River keepers
by Tony Manwaring There is something stirring, the sound of business leaders coming to terms with the new demands of leadership in the...
Oct 15, 20105 min read
Shareholder value - moderation in all things
by David Phillips I recently had the pleasure of listening to Stephen Green's lecture at the Mansion House here in London. The lecture...
Sep 28, 20103 min read
Governance: Codes vs. Actions - the mismatch
by Nick Gould A headline in the FT last week stated "Michael Geoghegan, Chief Executive of HSBC has threatened to resign from his job...
Sep 28, 20102 min read
A crisis of ethics caused the financial crisis: discuss
by Tony Manwaring Tomorrow’s Company had the great delight and honour of hosting Sir David Walker providing our first Tomorrow’s Good...
May 25, 201011 min read
Getting stewardship into the bloodstream
by Mark Goyder 18 months ago, in the depths of our banking crisis, Tomorrow’s Company came out with a report that drew attention to the...
May 14, 20102 min read
Our banking industry should work within an ethical framework
by Tony Manwaring To avoid another credit crunch we cannot rely on regulation alone. The proposal from a cross-party commission for a...
May 6, 20104 min read
Ending the disconnect between politics and business
by Tony Manwaring Britain will soon be voting for a new government. Tony Manwaring is Chief Executive of Tomorrow’s Company. The...
Mar 4, 20104 min read
Obama’s Rope-Line Debate on Coal
by Bill Becker If you suddenly came face to face with President Barack Obama, what would you say? Gillian Caldwell found herself in that...
Feb 11, 20106 min read
Sixteen Questions from the Cadbury takeover
by Mark Goyder So many questions arise from this takeover. Some of them are raised by Will Hutton and Philip Blond in today’s FT. But...
Jan 21, 20103 min read
Cadbury: A Testbed for Stewardship
by Mark Goyder and Philip Goldenberg, Wall Street Journal For the past six months the U.K. corporate-governance discussion has been all...
Jan 7, 20101 min read
Nopenhagen – What Happened?
Well, so much for 'Hopenhagen' - the idea that the Copenhagen climate talks would lead to a new treaty on climate change and usher in a...
Dec 30, 20096 min read
The Illusion of Safety
by Bill Sharon There is an assumption that one of the fundamental purposes of government is to provide for the safety of its citizens....
Dec 21, 20093 min read


Tata- the triple context made real
by Tony Manwaring Today I have had the great joy and privilege of spending time with and at Tata Motors in Pune India. In this time: -...
Nov 30, 20092 min read
Derivatives and Faith
by Bill Sharon In 1987 I joined a relatively small cadre of mid-career hires at JP Morgan. I and my new colleagues were needed because we...
Nov 18, 20093 min read
Reflecting and Discussing on 'Companies Act 2006'
by Nick Gould Earlier this year I wrote a short paper with particular reference to the Companies Act 2006 called “Problems with the law”....
Nov 16, 20093 min read
Money
by Bill Sharon We live in a world where the means of exchange (money) has become vastly more important than what we exchange (goods and...
Nov 11, 20094 min read
Changing the Game
For "The World as We Want It to Be" SRI in the Rockies 20th Anniversary By Hazel Henderson © 2009 www.hazelhenderson.com Marking the...
Oct 20, 200911 min read
Dressing for Copenhagen
by Bill Becker In the Danish fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen, an Emperor goes out among his subjects in his underwear. Two...
Oct 19, 20096 min read
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