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Mar 4, 20114 min read

Markets and banks need morals, says Gordon Brown in his new book on the financial crash

Beyond the crash, overcoming the first crisis of globalization by Gordon Brown, Simon and Schuster, 2010 Reviewed by Michael Smith This...

Mar 2, 20116 min read

Can We Win the Future Racing Uphill?

As the House debated the federal budget this week, Democrats (176 of them, to be precise) tried to save billions of dollars by taking...

Jan 28, 20113 min read

New Year (Re)solutions

by Tania Ellis Every New Year brings new resolutions – and solutions. What’s yours? Do you want to boost your turnover? Or do you want...

Jan 25, 20115 min read

UK City leaders must rebuild trust, restore the City's 'licence to operate'

by Tony Manwaring Bankers' bonuses have burst out from the business pages of UK newspapers, and are headline news. The bonus round...

Dec 22, 20105 min read

Cancun Climate Talks: Mexico finds its mojo and India emerges a winner

by Malini Mehra The UN climate conference’s surprise outcome was not pre-determined. Just two weeks ago, most scribes had written off the...

Dec 15, 20103 min read

Companies need to focus on values, behaviour and sustainability, says London forum

by Michael Smith Underlying the financial crisis is a crisis of value and of values,’ asserted Tony Manwaring, Chief Executive of the...

Nov 30, 20107 min read

Sustainable Happiness

by Len Jones Happiness in its broadest sense is a psychological process which cannot be directly quantified. The stream of enjoyment, or...

Nov 29, 20103 min read

The Global Future of Green Capitalism

by Marc Weiss Green Capitalism generates substantial economic and employment growth and sustainable business and community development by...

Nov 23, 20105 min read

Common Sense: The Dark Matter of the Law

by Nick Gould As part of my research for a seminar in which I was involved during the summer, I asked the owners of about 40 small and...

Oct 29, 20103 min read

QE2 - The Last Resort

by Bill Sharon The Federal Reserve’s second round of Quantitative Easing or QE2 is set to launch next week. Ask yourself and a half a...

Oct 24, 20103 min read

The Risk of "Making Money"

by Bill Sharon The only organization that makes money is a bank. The Federal Reserve creates or “prints” money. As the effective interest...

Oct 18, 20105 min read

Sustainability - Obvious, tricky to justify, hard to implement

by Neil Walmsley Over the past decade, business leaders have been bombarded with endless encouragements to ‘go green’, minimise their...

Oct 15, 20105 min read

Business leaders get the E-factor! From Mansion House to the Upper Chattahoochee River keepers

by Tony Manwaring There is something stirring, the sound of business leaders coming to terms with the new demands of leadership in the...

Sep 28, 20103 min read

Shareholder value - moderation in all things

by David Phillips I recently had the pleasure of listening to Stephen Green's lecture at the Mansion House here in London. The lecture...

Sep 28, 20102 min read

Governance: Codes vs. Actions - the mismatch

by Nick Gould A headline in the FT last week stated "Michael Geoghegan, Chief Executive of HSBC has threatened to resign from his job...

May 25, 201011 min read

A crisis of ethics caused the financial crisis: discuss

by Tony Manwaring Tomorrow’s Company had the great delight and honour of hosting Sir David Walker providing our first Tomorrow’s Good...

May 14, 20102 min read

Getting stewardship into the bloodstream

by Mark Goyder 18 months ago, in the depths of our banking crisis, Tomorrow’s Company came out with a report that drew attention to the...

Mar 4, 20104 min read

Ending the disconnect between politics and business

by Tony Manwaring Britain will soon be voting for a new government. Tony Manwaring is Chief Executive of Tomorrow’s Company. The...

Feb 11, 20106 min read

Obama’s Rope-Line Debate on Coal

by Bill Becker If you suddenly came face to face with President Barack Obama, what would you say? Gillian Caldwell found herself in that...

Jan 21, 20103 min read

Sixteen Questions from the Cadbury takeover

by Mark Goyder So many questions arise from this takeover. Some of them are raised by Will Hutton and Philip Blond in today’s FT. But...