The Evolution of Responsible Leadership
June 16, 2014
Following a public lecture by Sir Mark Moody-Stuart at ICCSR, Nottingham University Business School on 2nd May 2014, the following essay reflects on the qualities of responsible leadership and how such values evolve in leaders and organisations. Framing responsible leadership Since the Global Financial Crisis there have been increased calls for more responsible business leadership. Many …
Responsible Business in 2020 – 10 forecasts for Responsible Business Week
March 31, 2014
After 20 years in the CSR game as a professional and academic, I find myself reflecting on a vexing paradox: we have more CSR than ever before, yet many of the challenges that CSR is supposed to be tackling are still getting worse, not better. Partly, I think this is because we tend to focus …
Business Schools and Responsible and Sustainable Business
December 17, 2013
It is a truth universally acknowledged that after some news of business irresponsibility, call it Enron or the 2007 financial crisis, the question is asked, ‘but what did they (the perpetrators) learn at business school?’. As our latest cohorts of students graduate, it remains a fair question. If business schools claim that they prepare students …
Tax is for Life, not just for Christmas?
December 10, 2013
In November 2013 the Institute of Business Ethics announced that in its latest survey of public opinion on corporate responsibility tax was now the number one issue of concern, having succeeded in knocking director remuneration off the top-spot which it had held for six years. This was an extraordinary finding. Six years ago tax and …
Doing the Business 2013 – Gasland II
November 27, 2013
In the fourth and final instalment of this year’s film series, we showed Gasland 2 (2013) directed by Josh Fox. In order to confidently introduce the sequel I also watched Gasland (2010). Josh Fox’s first documentary about hydraulic fracturing or ‘fracking’. The rather moving and personal story of Gasland strongly reminded me of Rachel Carson’ …
Doing the Business 2013 – Nalini by Day, Nancy by Night & The Phantom of the Operator
November 20, 2013
The following blog summarises Professor Laurie Cohen’s introduction to a double bill of films about working on the phones: Both films, in their own ways, deal with the strictly managed regimes, the disembodiment and the identity transformations that such work involves. Nalini by Day, Nancy by Night, produced and written by Sonali Gulati, in 2005 …
Doing the Business 2013 – We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks
November 12, 2013
Founded by the Australian ‘Internet Activist’ Julian Assange, Wikileaks (not affiliated with Wikipedia!) claims to bring “important news and information to the public” whilst ensuring that “journalists and whilstleblowers are not jailed for emailing sensitive or classified documents”. A safe haven for would-be corporate or government whistleblowers (e.g. US army private Manning) Wikileaks has been …
Are you a whistleblower?
I was invited to give an introduction to whistleblowing by the ICCSR before a screening of the film We Steal Secrets. I was keen to talk to people about the experience of whistleblowing from the Public Concern at Work (PCaW) perspective. PCaW is a UK based charity that provides advice to individuals who have witnessed …
Doing the Business 2013 – Something Ventured
November 7, 2013
On Monday this week we screened the first of this years films looking at social, ethical and environmental issues in business. The first film was Something Ventured, a film that documented the investors that financed the development of new technologies (genetics, computer hardware and software) through the mid to late twentieth Century. The film was …
Gender and Responsible Business – What’s the link?
June 10, 2013
Like many feminists, I have spent much of my life encouraging, supporting, and pressurizing policy-makers to advance gender equality through legislation, and through gender sensitive budgeting and policy development. To this end I have worked with government representatives in the UK, Australia, and internationally, and with numerous non-governmental organizations (NGOs). In the 1980s and 90s …
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