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Quick Comment: Walmart’s CEO enters the gun debate in the United States
The Centre's Executive Director Wayne Burns talks about the decision by the CEO of Walmart to enter the contentious gun debate in the United States and what signal this sends to the rest of the community.
socio political environment
leadership communications
advocacy
Quick Comment: The Stakeholder Corporation and the Business Roundtable
The Centre's Executive Director Wayne Burns talks through the Business Roundtable's recently released statement on the purpose of companies.
corporate responsibility
csr
advocacy
Banks condemn Hong Kong violence in newspaper adverts
BBC News, Thursday 22nd August 2019, 04 August 2019 HSBC and Standard Chartered, two British financial services companies with large presences in Asia have taken out newspaper ads in Hong Kong criticising the ongoing protests that have rocked the region. In its newspaper advert, HSBC called for a return to civility and the rule of law. "We strongly condemn violence of any kind and the disruption...
advocacy
socio political environment
The Investor Revolution
Robert G. Eccles & Svetlana Klimenko, Harvard Business Review, May-June 2019 Edition, 10 June 2019 Most corporate leaders understand that businesses have a key role to play in tackling urgent issues like climate change. But in practice, investors, portfolio managers, and analysts rarely engage corporate executives on environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues. But the perception that ESG just hasn’t gone mainstream in the investment...
advocacy
corporate responsibility
csr
Google 'retaliating against harassment protest organisers'
BBC News, Wednesday 24th April 2019, 20 April 2019 Organisers of a series of walkouts in protest at Google’s treatment of women have said the company has since retaliated against them. In November, 20,000 employees walked out of their offices demanding several key changes in how sexual misconduct allegations were dealt with at Google. Now, in an internal email published by Wired, two of the...
advocacy
The renaissance of the corporate advocacy campaign
Centre for Corporate Public Affairs, Vol. 24 No. 2, 05 November 2014Click here to download the November 2014 Centre for Corporate Public Affairs Newsletter (Member login for access)
advocacy
Leaving no blog unturned
Burns, Wayne, Vol. 15 No. 4 2005, 01 December 2005Centre newsletter.
advocacy
How to manage a corporate campaign
Vol. 1 No. 1 2002, 01 March 2002
advocacy
Behind the doctrine of 'mutal obligation'
Vol.10 No. 3 2000, 01 September 2000
advocacy