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Apple, Ford, McDonald’s, Microsoft Among This Summer’s Climate Leaders
Tom Murray, Forbes, 22 July 2020The challenges facing the world over the past few months have redefined corporate leadership, calling on businesses to help rebuild a more sustainable, equitable and resilient future. The main call for change comes as a growing number of voices demand a goal of achieving net zero emissions. In response, nine leading companies have announced a...
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advocacy
With coronavirus and bushfires, Australia is in the perfect conditions for fake news to flourish. Here’s how you tackle it
Elly Duncan and Ruby Cornish, The Drum, 21 July 2020Since the start of the year, Australia’s demand for news has surged. Nearly half of a group of participants surveyed by the News and Media Research Centre, get their news online. However, the first six months of 2020 have been defined by immense change, and a rise in ‘fake news,’ according to Anne Kruger, Australia-Pacific lead for global...
socio political environment
media relations
Why We Can’t Shop Our Way to Sustainability
Marc Lepere and Giana Eckhardt, Stanford Social Innovation Review, 20 July 2020To build sustainability, business leaders must partner with government and society to re-focus their companies on new forms of market exchange, explain Marc Lepere and Giana Eckhardt. New sustainability plans have meant that business leaders can refocus government policy and social needs to create sustainable products and outputs. However,...
corporate responsibility
adaptive leadership
Research: How Corporate Boards in Asia Can Improve Governance
Sunil Puri, Harvard Business Review, 15 July 2020Boards in Asia are still lacking adequate leadership, supervision and oversight, a recent study has revealed. The study, based on 109 interviews and 350 surveys of board directors of mid-to-large size organisations, found Asian corporate boards are underprepared to deal with cultural pressure and concentrated ownership structures. To succeed,...
measurement
Businesses ‘more concerned’ now about Hong Kong security law
Centre for Corporate Public Affairs, Eric Cheung and Laura He, CNN Business, July 13, 2020, 15 July 2020Businesses are fearing the implications that will potentially be brought about by Hong Kong’s controversial national security law. The law was passed at the end of last month, and according to a new survey conducted by the American Chamber of Commerce, more than 68 per cent of businesses in Hong Kong said they were “more concerned” than a month...
socio political environment
government relations
Microsoft and Zoom join Hong Kong data ‘pause’
Leo Kelion, BBC, 10 July 2020Microsoft and Zoom have stated they will not process data requests made by the Hong Kong authorities following a national security law passed on the 30th June. They follow Facebook, Google and Twitter in ‘pausing’ data processing requests. Under these new rules, local authorities can jail employees of internet companies for up to six months if...
socio political environment
TikTok to exit Hong Kong ‘within days’
Centre for Corporate Public Affairs, Karishma Vaswani, BBC, July 7, 2020, 10 July 2020 Video sharing platform, TikTok, has said it will quit Hong Kong after China imposed a new national security law giving local authorities sweeping online censorship and surveillance powers. In a bid to change its global image, the Beijing-based company has consistently refused to hand over data to Chinese authorities arguing intervention raises...
socio political environment
Investors pivot to conscious investing in 2020: How markets are adapting
Centre for Corporate Public Affairs, Steve Chiavarone and Martin Jarzebowski, CNBC, July 3, 2020, 07 July 2020 Investors are becoming more socially conscious in choosing where to put their money. How the public and private sectors react to the issues surrounding racial disparity and a collective response to COVID-19 will have an impact on redefining our social contract, according to Steve Chiavarone and Martin Jarzebowski, from asset management firm,...
advocacy
corporate responsibility
Lego pulls ads on Facebook over ‘hate speech’
Centre for Corporate Public Affairs, Jane Wakefield, BBC, July 1, 2020., 06 July 2020Lego has joined Target, Ford, Adidas, Coca Cola, Starbucks and Unilever in pulling its advertising from Facebook. The company will pause paid advertising for at least 30 days as part of the ‘Stop Hate for Profit’ campaign. This comes after a pledge to join the fast-growing advertising boycott to end hate speech across social media, following...
socio political environment
Employee Engagement Is Demanding Corporate Social Responsibility - How To Read It
Centre for Corporate Public Affairs, Joan Michelson, Forbes, June 28, 2020., 03 July 2020 The coronavirus pandemic, social justice protests, climate change, and economic shutdown have forced a shift in the way big corporations do business. These have also demanded that when it comes to employees, retention relies on aligning values, transparency and measurable social responsibility. Joan Michelson explains that employers must adapt to...
adaptive leadership
measurement
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