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Paul Polman: “We’ve overshot the planet’s limits by such a huge margin that ‘less bad’ isn’t good enough anymore.”

Climate risk is an “inescapable” part of chartered accountants’ remit

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

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

25 September 2023

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

21 September 2023

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

21 September 2023

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

21 September 2023

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

21 September 2023

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

10 August 2023

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

8 August 2023

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

24 July 2023

Are you connected with the soul of your company?

10 July 2023

Discovering and nurturing tomorrow’s wealth creators

28 June 2023

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

26 June 2023

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

25 June 2023

Asylum — Is business playing its part?

22 June 2023

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

21 June 2023

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

18 June 2023

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

7 June 2023

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

3 June 2023

Creativity — a basic requirement for business students

2 June 2023

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

17 May 2023

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

12 May 2023

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

21 April 2023

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

16 April 2023

Migration — the fairness test to come

11 April 2023

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

10 April 2023

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

27 March 2023

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

10 March 2023

Does your company’s core activity help humans thrive?

6 March 2023

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

6 March 2023

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

5 March 2023

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

26 February 2023

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

27 January 2023

Nadhim and Ram: two tales about fairness

27 January 2023

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

22 January 2023

What companies do you most admire?

11 January 2023

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.”

10 January 2023

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

6 January 2023

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

28 November 2022

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

18 November 2022