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Beyond Accounting – A Miracle on Wall Street AND Main Street
posted by Tony Manwaring  on January 6, 2009

Tomorrow's Company and the Institute of Chartered Accounting and Wales today ‘soft launch’ Beyond Accounting, a programme of dialogue and discussion looking at best practice in ensuring that the ‘non-financial’ impacts of business are fully taken into account in business decision making.  Over time, we want to widen this this programme to include detailed research and inquiry, building on the excellent paper by Graham Hubbard of Adelaide University which does such a good job in mapping out the agenda for discussion.  In so doing we are exploring in greater depth the conclusions of our inquiry - Tomorrow’s Global Company: challenges and choices - that business leaders and others need to redefine success, because, in a world in which there are increasingly no externalities, performance metrics need to take into account the wider impact of business decisions.


Mahalo - Welcome, Tomorrow's Green Economy!
posted by Tony Manwaring  on December 5, 2008

This week I was lucky enough to hear Bill Becker and Pavan Sukhdev speak at our event at the East India Club.  They argued that that creating tomorrow's green economy is not something that can be put off until after the recession, but is the way to get out of the recession.  And that we cannot rely on the thinking that created the problems we currently face to solve them.


Community is the purpose of business: the co-creation of wealth and value
posted by Tony Manwaring  on December 3, 2008

I had the great joy of spending a wonderful time last week talking with Anant Nadkarni - Vice President, (Corporate Sustainability) of Indian giants Tata.

Anant quoted Jamsetji Tata, the Founder of Tata (1839 – 1904):  "In a free enterprise, the community is not just another stakeholder in the business but in fact the very purpose of its existence.” 


How to stay ethical during a downturn
posted by Michael Smith  on November 28, 2008

How to stay ethical during a downturn: this was the theme of a talk given by Roger Steare, author of Ethicability, at Cass Business School in London on 26 November.


Measuring the impact of philanthropy
posted by Jyothi Gopalan  on November 21, 2008

Over the past weeks, there have been some interesting pieces in the FT on philanthropy such as philanthropic leverage and how the financial crisis might adversely effect giving.

 

Perhaps an effect of this could be that corporates take a more focussed, targeted approach to charities and be selective in spends. 

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