DISCUSSION In the news this week August 13th 2018

Dear Readers,

Listed below are some of the articles we’ve seen this week that reflect issues – in areas such as corporate governance, sustainability, leadership and artificial intelligence – Tomorrow’s Company thinks business should seek to engage with fully if it is truly to become a force for good in society.

Yours,

The TC team

• A study involving Google’s DeepMind AI tech company yielded “jaw-dropping” results detecting and diagnosing eye disease https://bbc.in/2KPdVEn
• Chief executive pay jumped 11% to almost £4m last year, compared with a 2% increase for UK workers as a whole https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-45183881
• How, in a noisy world, Danone does more than talk the talk https://wp.me/p7u80c-1gy
• Singapore-based sustainable business Air Amber focuses on building the economic capacity of disadvantaged communities and fostering inter-generational relationships https://bit.ly/2MxOoED
• US senator Elizabeth Warren’s new bill – the “Accountable Capitalism Act” – is an attempt to get capitalism to work better for average Americans, attributing its problems to a shift in the obligations of corporations from stakeholders to shareholders only https://bit.ly/2PfeN8S
• The rate of diabetes diagnosis among young people has risen by 41%. How about a courageous conversation, combined with collaborative action by business, government and society, to help prevent our children suffering a life of obesity and illness, and keep the NHS from a battle it cannot afford? https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/aug/18/cases-of-type-2-diabetes-among-young-people-rise-41-in-three-years?CMP=twt_gu