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Eamonn Hughes: “The story isn't just in the numbers.”

Sally Johnson: “We can't just chase profits in a specific quarter.”

Stephen Oxley: “Integrate non-financial metrics into everything you do and sustainability becomes a natural part of decision-making."

Peter Birch: “We’re trying to make sure that what we say aligns exactly with what we do.”

John Worth: “The best legacy that anyone can leave is to pass on your experiences and knowledge.”

Aidan Connolly: “The CFO’s role is, by definition, a contradiction.”

Carole Cran: “The CFO has an opportunity to act as a catalyst.”

Alison Dolan: “Look to yourself to embrace new things.”

Louise Britnell: “Rampant short-termism is a real and credible danger to making progress.”

Duncan Magrath: “Lead by example and by doing the right thing.”

Brad Greve: “Businesses need talent, communities need fair representation, and everyone needs a chance.”

Candida Davies: “We don’t just want to deliver on time, we want to be sure we did it in the right way.”

Peter Burrows: “One of the greatest challenges is making sense of that data so you can communicate it.”

Declan Hourican: “We can't fight fraud on our own, we need all stakeholders to help us tackle it.”

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Andy Morrow: “If you have a business that is anti-societal then that’s a problem.”

Romaney O'Malley: “Ensure you’re getting an outcome that’s good for everyone, and not just your bottom line.”

Asylum — Is business playing its part?

Clare Swindell: “Take a broad strategic view of your business beyond the typical CFO agenda.”

Sarah Pollard: “It's not just a question of capturing data but it's knowing what your destination is.”

Memo to the chair: Unhappy about ticking those ESG boxes? Then lead from the front

Jeff Davies: “We’ve got clarity on what it looks like to be doing the right thing.”

Creativity — a basic requirement for business students

Fay Cooke: “The power to instigate change lies with corporates.”

Jenny Hanlon: “I relish not being the CFO you would expect to meet.”

Transparency was yesterday. Tomorrow is about vigilance. Four questions boards need to ask

It’s fine to set up a youth board, but what is your company doing about intergenerational fairness?

Migration — the fairness test to come

Joel Ripley: “The perennial challenge is taking data to information, to insight, to action.”

Sally Lake, CFO, Beazley PLC: “The scariest thing for CFOs today is also the most exciting thing — it’s change.”

We need to talk about purpose — but also about values!

Does your company’s core activity help humans thrive?

Patrick Butcher: “Our superpower as a species is our ability to cooperate.”

Stuart Jackson, CFO, Octopus Energy: “Let things go and see what flourishes.”

Thinking like an owner — a precious by-product of capitalism

From Jack Welch to Paul Polman — what a change in just 15 years!

Nadhim and Ram: two tales about fairness

Andy Boteler, CFO, Riverford: “Net zero is a chance to say yes.”

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Christiana Figueres: “We live in a truly exciting moment in the history of our species, with a great capacity to improve the world around us for each other.”

Saker Nusseibeh: “The market can’t solve problems without social cohesion.”

Labour and the Twenty-First Century Economy — a twelve point plan for building a better capitalism

What does respect for employees mean in the age of the algorithm?

What if the Chancellor were an Anthropist?

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How can boards align company success with the needs of the planet and society?

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Paul Polman: “Being ‘less bad’ isn’t good enough anymore.”

What do we mean by growth and why do we want it?

Education should broaden minds. Too often we are doing the opposite.

Kwasi Kwarteng’s growth “plan” — a twentieth-century response to twenty-first century challenges

Saving ESG requires a radical change in its definition of “governance”

A little less wishful thinking, a little more listening, please

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Chaos, crisis, and hope

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Climate gloom — from chair action to share action

Leading the Change: Rachel Youngman

How lazy labels about business purpose fuel the indignation industry

Fairer Future Case Study: why TSB signed the Good Business Charter

Stuart Kirk — a finance professional handicapped by his education

The bewilderment brew — how technology, privatisation and outsourcing combined can make life hard for customers

Fairer Future Case Study: Marnie Millard

What would make us proud of our country?

Leading the Change: Sir Ken Olisa

Leading the Change: David Bennett

Trust and Russian money — time for the City to look in the mirror?

The Madness, Let Alone Unfairness, of US Executive Pay