The News Corp disaster has many victims already (and the body count is only mounting) but so far none of them are non-executive directors. Lucy Marcus raises a really important issue about non-execs in a blog on Harvard Business Review's website: "News...
If a CEO’s pronouncements were all the evidence we needed that a business was doing something, then sustainability would be top of the strategy charts. Over half of the McKinsey Global Survey 2010 participants consider sustainability – the management of...
Today's corporate reporting model looks broken. It is dominated by a compliance mindset, particularly in America, with an inordinate focus on technical things, not strategy. It is so separated from internal reporting that boards are unable to engage with...
Mandatory CSR has all sorts of INTENDED consequences, say Ioannou and Serafiem, professors at London Business School and Harvard, respectively. Using data for 58 countries, they show that after the adoption of mandatory sustainability reporting laws and...
Paul Druckman reporting from Ceres 2011: When receiving an award at Ceres 2011 on behalf of Nike, the company's vice president of corporate social responsibility spoke about two key themes in reporting: transparency and data. Her quote? "Data is the...
Business problem The vast majority of the purchasing and investment decisions made by companies, public sector organisations, investment funds and individuals are made purely on the grounds of financial numbers and are based on a short-term perspective....