Tag: Corporate Governance

There is not much gain for any big corporation or its chief executive to upset a sitting Prime Minister and government. Hence the announcement that…

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I have just finished a call with Vodafone to renew my mobile phone subscription. The gentleman on the other line was very courteous. Maybe more…

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“Our system of corporate governance is rightly envied and emulated around the world” according to the Prime Minister’s introductory words in the White Paper on corporate governance. That…

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The pension implications of the collapse of Carillion are scandalous – as well as tragic for the people involved. Senior management used cash, debt and asset…

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In our review of corporate governance last year, we took the view that the UK should move from its primary focus on ‘creating shareholder value’ to a…

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After Milton Friedman famously proposed that the sole purpose of business enterprises should be to maximise shareholder value in an article in the New York…

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It’s a funny thing, but Michael Gove’s defence of Boris Johnson, following his damaging confusion about a British woman detained on holiday in Iran, gave…

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We had what my youngest son used to call an ‘insect day’ at my eldest son’s school on Monday, so we spent the afternoon watching…

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It isn’t clear when it started to happen. We are removing the ‘care’ from healthcare. I first noted this trend in the 1980s. I was…

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Maybe a decade and a half ago, I was a member of a committee set up by the Lib Dems to report on the party’s…

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This post first appeared as a column in Town & Country Planning magazine… When I bought my house a few years ago, on the edge…

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Business scandals keep coming thick and fast. The banks, BHS and the disappearing pensions, mis-selling of mortgages and other financial products, the VW deliberate cheating…

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