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Mark Goyder

Email : mark@tomorrowscompany.com

Role : Founder Director

Organization : Tomorrow's Company

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20 solutions for 2020: a better capitalism with stronger governance

posted by Mark Goyder on June 15, 2009

We need a better capitalism, with stronger governance.

How can we get mainstream business more closely aligned to making money from meeting the needs of society. How can we optimise social impact and achieve commercial returns?

At the second panel of the Corporation 2020 conference, it began to be clear to me. From the impressive pioneering of the social investors around me on the panel comes the eveidence of what works. From the depressing critique of Robert Johnson at the first panel, we have the evidence that the public wants change.

Our task now is to develop a joined-up agenda that shows ordinary savers and investors that they can vote with their wallets, and to put in place rules and frameworks that

start to create a stronger, more mainstream, market place in admirable behaviour.

In my paper I can offer the first 20 stewardship solutions - who would like to add to the list?

Issue(s): Redefining Success - beyond accounting , Embedding Values , Creating Frameworks , How to be a Force for Good company , Corporate Social Responsibility , Social Business , Global Financial Crisis , Responsible Investment

Region(s): North America , Central America , South America , Caribbean , Africa , South Asia , East Asia , Southeast Asia

Tag(s): Global , Governance , Investors , Stewardship

A few pointers for the G20 on global regulation

posted by Mark Goyder on March 31, 2009

What do we need to do differently to stop us repeating the follies and disasters that brought the financial system to its knees in 2007? What is the contribution of boards, investors, and regulators?

Issue(s): Global Financial Crisis

Bernard Shaw was right!

posted by Mark Goyder on June 24, 2008

My father died over 11 years ago. It was the centenary of his birth on Sunday. In 1951 he published a book called "The Future of Private Enterprise" in which he warned his fellow business leaders that the capitalist system had no legitimacy unless it was rooted in morality. In 1961 he published "The Responsible Company" - the first book in the English language to suggest the idea of a social audit. He was way ahead of his time in suggesting reform of company law.

Tag(s): CorporateResponsibility

City needs to explain its value added

posted by Mark Goyder on September 23, 2009

Denial is in the air. First a leading figure in motors sport brands Flavio Briatore’s life ban as “excessive”. Then the director of the CBI’s UK Contractors' Group says that the OFT’s fines for construction companies are “perverse and excessive” on the grounds that “cover pricing was endemic” and others were doing it.

Issue(s): Global Financial Crisis , Responsible Investment

Tag(s): GDPgrowth , LicenceToOperate , LordTurner , Trust

Doing the 'right' thing is hard, just look at Tata

posted by Mark Goyder on September 4, 2008

We are often reminded that the most difficult ethical issues are not those between right and wrong, but between right and right.

The news from West Bengal is a sharp example within an existing sharp example. The dilemma remains. Jobs today against historic community stability. Linear economic growth against balanced development . How much do we value conventional progress on the inexorable path to globalisation?

Companies cannot rely on governments to "deliver" society for them.

Issue(s): Redefining Success - beyond accounting , Creating Frameworks

Region(s): South Asia , East Asia

Tag(s): China , EthicalDilemmas , Externalities , HumanRights , India , MeasuringSuccess

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