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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
TIGER, TIGER, BURNT OUTRIGHT
by Sunil Gupta I am not a Valmik Thapar, nor a Belinda Wright. I am not a scientist, nor am I an ‘expert’. I’m just an ordinary Indian...
Oct 15, 20096 min read
Three cheers for Norway! (But don't forget the elephant in the room
by Sean Kidney Norway has just announced they will cut their emissions 40% on 1990 levels by 2020 - if there's a good Copenhagen...
Oct 9, 20092 min read
City needs to explain its value added
by Mark Goyder Denial is in the air. First a leading figure in motors sport brands Flavio Briatore’s life ban as “excessive”. Then the...
Sep 23, 20091 min read
To grow or not to grow? That is the question
by Tony Manwaring Is growth a good or bad thing? Growth has lifted millions out of poverty but our economy and politics are framed by...
Aug 28, 20096 min read
Stewardship and football
by Mark Goyder Look at any well-run private or family business. You find a close alignment between the owners of its shares and the...
Aug 20, 20092 min read
Bringing together a new engagement based on trust
by Michael Smith 'Bringing together a new engagement based on trust'; 'Ego will have to be parked at the door'; 'Purposeful partnership...
Jun 30, 20092 min read
20 solutions for 2020: a better capitalism with stronger governance
by Mark Goyder Panel II of the conference brought me side by side with some real American pioneers. I have attached their biographical...
Jun 15, 20095 min read
Get the bankers to believe in the afterlife!
by Mark Goyder The Conference on the future of the corporation opened with a brilliant account of the causes of the crisis from economist...
Jun 10, 20094 min read
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