Although still an embryonic management practice, the authors believe that “integrated reporting” of a company’s financial and non-financial performance into a single document is about to take off, as market and regulatory forces push more companies to adopt this practice. In doing so, companies will face a number of challenges, which the authors say can be efficiently dealt with via cloud computing.

Date: July 2007A snapshot on how the Principles for Responsible Investment came about, and views of leading thinkers in the field of sustainable finance and responsible investment.

Date: April 2006 A set of global best-practices for responsible investment.

Date: Autumn 2006Matthew Kiernan, of Innovest Strategic Value Advisors, debunks 5 key myths about socially responsible investment and explains trends that mean it will become increasingly important.

Corporate governance is not an area usually associated with vision, imagination, or even integrity. This needs to change.In this lecture I have looked at corporate governance through the eyes of William Blake.Blake was a visionary, a man to whom imagination, energy and integrity were central. I argue that much of the compliance burden companies face is self-imposed. Business creates the problem when it begins its approach to every new code by saying “how do we comply” instead of asking “What is the spirit of this code? Do we accept it? If yes, how do we fulfil the spirit?