Companies need to reset their mission so that profitability is a means to an end - the organisation’s social purpose - not an end in itself is essential.
Articles on Board diversity
Displaying all articles
A study of 3,000 companies found a correlation between local ‘social capital’ – which measures such variables as voter turnout and census response rates – and more women on corporate boards.
There’s a problem in thinking more women on boards is a great indicator of significant progress on diversity.
Whoever replaces the directors resigning at AMP and the Commonwealth Bank will likely be drawn from a small pool of people.
Top contributors
-
PhD (Corporate Governance and Stakeholder Engagement), RMIT University
-
Associate professor, Australian National University
-
Assistant Professor of Accounting, Hanken School of Economics
-
Associate Professor of Accounting, Hanken School of Economics
-
Emeritus Associate Professor in Public Law, UCT. Visiting Adjunct Professor, WITS School of Governance; Director, Africa Programme, University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership, University of Cambridge
-
Associate Dean, Research and External Relations; Executive Director, Madden Center for Value Creation; Phil Smith Professor of Entrepreneurship, Florida Atlantic University; Institute for Humane Studies