Business + purpose = big trouble. But wait, here is one surprising point of agreement
By Dieter Zinnbauer. Reactions to the recent statement by the Business Roundtable that recognizes a regard for stakeholders rather than a narrow focus on...
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Oct 20, 2020
Top Leadership Compensation: From Hockey-Stick to Shared Pay-checks
“Sharing is Caring” is a way to manage post-COVID19 Economic Crises and Layoffs By Anirudh Agrawal & Bharat Dhamani 10 of the 25 Linkedin...
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Feb 28, 2020
Responsible Tax in Multinational Enterprises – Why?
By Peter Koerver Schmidt The tax practices of multinational enterprises (MNEs) attract massive interest in these years from the general media, policymakers as well...
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Jan 21, 2020
Better than nothing but still “exSASBerating”!
By Dieter Zinnbauer. Why a powerful push by the world’s top asset manager towards more sustainability reporting still falls pretty short. Great news BlackRock,...
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More CEOs Sacked For Ethical Failure Than For Poor Financial Performance
According to a recent study, for the first time more CEOs have been dismissed for ethical lapses than for poor financial performance (in 2018). What is the lesson? I think that we overvalue compliance and undervalue the effects of a corporate culture on sustainable business decisions…
Thinking outside the box on corporate tax practice
Corporate tax practice of multinational corporations (MNC) have been the topic of intense debate in the media and among policy makers in recent years. Most recently the news broke that Amazon would pay zero tax on their more than 11 billion profit in 2018. The OECD have coordinated a large project on the topic and involved countries around the world in discussing attempted solutions to the issue of “base erosion and profit shifting” which is the technical term for states finding it challenging to tax the profits of MNCs.
Who cares about sustainable fashion?
By Erin Leitheiser. Can ever-higher rates of consumption ever truly be sustainable? Consideration of up-and-coming consumers will be key to making progress in the...
Conquer the Lock-In: How Food Companies can act on their Political Responsibility towards Children
The overconsumption of sugar, especially among children, and its long-term health risks re-gained public awareness with the introduction of the British soda tax in 2018. What can we learn for 2019?
The year of corporate acting—does business need a new approach to palm oil?
By Amanda Williams, Steve Kennedy and Gail Whiteman. 2018 went down as the ‘year of corporate caring’ about the palm oil controversy. A banned...
Youth Perspective to the Sustainability Agenda
By Charlotte Piller, Luna Stæhr Andersen and Mikkel Mezer Morgensen. If not now, when? As the days get shorter and the year slowly draws...
Sustainability’s Infrastructure
The project SUSTEIN is looking at localized translations of transnational sustainability standards in Kenya, the United Arab Emirates and corporate headquarters in Europe.