Is the Non-Executive Director Worth Saving? (1/5)

PDF Introduction Is the non-executive director (NED) an endangered species? Does it matter? Neither corporate collapse nor corporate scandal are new. They rightly attract media scrutiny and the interest of policymakers and regulators. Illustrative examples include Thomas Cook (2019), Carillion (2018), Patisserie Valerie (2018), Northern Rock (2007) and, earlier, Barings (...)

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Brian Griffiths: A Celebration of Advent

By Brian Griffiths

  The meaning of Advent I must first make a confession. I love carol services. I love singing carols. I love the Christmas tree. I love Christmas decorations. I love the festivities of Christmas. They remind me of when I was very young singing carols from house to house in (...)

Long a political target, big business polls better than you might think

By John Kroencke

Despite criticising the actions of big business being a favourite pastime of many a business minister, John Kroencke writes that wider opinion of big business is actually more favourable than we might expect.  Like many I rely on Amazon. In fact, there is rarely a week where a package doesn’t (...)

Richard Turnbull: When it comes to business, the clergy and the flock see things very differently

Committed churchgoers – defined as those who attend weekly – have a considerably more positive view of business and the market economy than those who lead them and teach them. This is the result of polling conducted for the Centre for Enterprise, Markets and Ethics. Savanta ComRes polled six audiences (...)

Saving for a Property-Owning Democracy – Andrei Rogobete

Link to Full Text: Saving for a Property-Owning Democracy – Andrei E. Rogobete   About the Author: Andrei E. Rogobete is Associate Director with the Centre for Enterprise, Markets and Ethics. He is the author of several publications, including Ethics in Global Business: Building Moral Capitalism and The Challenges of (...)

CEME Project: Why Saving Matters

Most people today who pay any attention to the news will be familiar with key economic concepts – consumption, investment, public expenditure, output, exports, imports, unemployment, economic growth, the balance of payments, public borrowing, interest rates, inflation, the national debt. Yet the one measure we hear little about is saving. (...)

Richard Turnbull: The Local and Personal

Full Text Link: Local and Personal: The Principles and Practice of Saving in Victorian England – Revd Dr Richard Turnbull   About the Publication: Richard Turnbull explores the principles and practices of saving in Victorian England, highlighting the significance of local financial institutions and their impact on society.   About (...)

Who Needs Barns? – Bishop Peter Selby

Link to Full Text: Who Needs Barns? – Bishop Peter Selby   About the Author: Peter Selby was the Bishop of Worcester and Bishop to HM Prisons until his retirement in 2007, and was President of the National Council for Independent Monitoring Boards from 2008 to 2013. He is the (...)

The Case for Normalised Interest Rates – Dr Peter Warburton

Link to Full Text: The Case for Normalised Interest Rates – Dr Peter Warburton   About the Author: Peter Warburton has worked as an applied economist in the UK since 1975, starting out as a researcher at the London Business School. He gained his PhD from City University in 1987 (...)

Steve Morris: Lost gurus of the 80s – Jan Carlzon (Part 2: The Heart of Leadership)

  Jan Carlzon, the dynamic architect of the rescue of Scandinavian Air Services in the 80s, had a good deal to say about what it is to be a leader. We would do well to listen because he counters some of the common misconceptions about leadership. One of those things (...)