The real changes we need to focus companies on the long term
Commenting on The Times article from 14th December: Workers need businesses to succeed more than hedge funds do Louise Haigh MP is right...
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Nov 30, 20164 min read
Response to green paper on corporate governance
Tomorrow’s Company welcomes the government’s green paper on corporate governance, which puts forward many sensible policies, some of...
Nov 1, 20164 min read
A fresh perspective for the board
“Ignorance is underrated. People like me ask difficult questions by accident. That’s the best thing you can find on your board.” These...
Oct 24, 20163 min read
Stewardship is on the march
For over 20 years Tomorrow’s Company has been working to create a future for business that makes equal sense to staff, shareholders and...
Sep 1, 20162 min read
Insurance giants leading the way
Invest in our future, not in our past. One of Britain’s biggest insurers has said it is ready to invest billions in the country’s...
Aug 2, 20163 min read
Talent and wealth creation
Back in the 1960’s Peter Drucker argued that knowledge was becoming society’s key economic resource. Today’s prosperity has its...
Jul 21, 20163 min read
Boards need to get to grips with corporate culture
by Venetia Howes, City Values Forum Why should boards take culture seriously? Because getting it wrong can destroy value and even lives...
Jul 15, 20167 min read
A society for all?
by Professor David Grayson, Cranfield University (You can find the original blog posting here.) Eighteen months or so before the 2015...
Jul 14, 20164 min read
Companies that work for everyone, not just the privileged few
Two weeks ago I commented that, in the UK at least, the lack of trust in business had eroded the voice and perceived legitimacy of...
Jul 5, 20164 min read
Avoiding disruption
Disruption of existing business models, leading to the collapse of major companies and even entire industry sectors is, of course, not...
Jun 24, 20163 min read
Brexit - why business lost its voice and how to restore it
On a large turnout, but narrow margins the UK has voted to leave the EU. All around the business world decision makers are meeting to...
May 19, 20161 min read
Price, value and the cynicism of Wall Street
Oscar Wilde defined a cynic as someone who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. A recent Financial Times article...
May 12, 20163 min read
A tale of two retailers
In 2007, the UK supermarket group Sainsbury’s faced a private equity bid. The Sainsbury family fought off the bid. Writing about it six...
Apr 18, 20166 min read
Is there a growing business case to take a long-term approach to corporate tax?
In the wake of the Panama Papers the European Commission has stepped up pressure on the tax affairs of multinationals, with proposals...
Jun 24, 20144 min read
Responsible Capitalism
by Vincent Neate, Partner, KPMG There are many many initiatives out there about the broad subject of Responsible Capitalism. Some are...
May 15, 20144 min read
Come Help Me Change The World
by Dianne Dillon-Ridgley, Director, Interface, Inc. When Ray Anderson brought up my joining the Interface board eighteen years ago, he...
May 14, 20141 min read
Response to: “Why Divestment Fails”
by Stephen Davis, Associate Director and Senior Fellow, Harvard Law School Programs on Corporate Governance and Institutional Investors ...
Apr 9, 20144 min read
Mentoring as a force for change
By Peninah Thomson, OBE Member of the Senior Advisory Panel of the Tomorrow's Global Leaders sproject. Mentoring has long been valued as...
Mar 18, 20143 min read
A business case for equal opportunity?
by Turid Elisabeth Solvang, managing director, Norwegian Institute of Directors At a Tomorrow’s Company seminar I attended recently, the...
Sep 17, 20132 min read
Vince Cable: Crackdown on Directors of Failed U.K. Firms
by: Aneta Dyakova There has been an increased focus of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) on amending the...
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