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Former Unilever CEO Paul Polman on business as a force for good
McKinsey & Company, McKinsey & Company, 01 November 2021Paul Polman, the cofounder and chair of IMAGINE and former CEO of Unilever, and co-author Andrew Winston, a sustainable-business guru, argue in an interview that companies must become “net positive” by giving more to the world than they take to deliver the scale of change and transformation the world urgently needs...
socio political environment
The return of history: and the vanishing gap between business strategy and corporate public affairs
Peter Metcalfe, Guest Faculty Member of ACCPA’s Professional Development Institute, The Centre for Corporate Public AffairsThrough the 1990s, the world seemed a certain place, converging on peace and pragmatism. Democratic and non-democratic leaders alike were reconciling the market with social progress and liberal democracy – Clinton in the White House, Blair in Downing Street, Schroder in the Bundeskanzleramt, even Yeltsin in the...
governance
socio political environment
A2 milk ‘doubling down’ with new China strategy despite disruptions and economic worries
Dominic Powell, The Sydney Morning Herald, 27 October 2021The chief executive of beleaguered milk and infant formula producer A2 Milk said the company will double down on its China aspirations despite major uncertainties over future growth amid changing consumer preferences and economic instability. David Bortolussi, who stepped into the role of A2’s head in February this year, was confident it could...
socio political environment
Tesla is now worth more than US$1 trillion
Christ Isidore, CNN Business, 26 October 2021Tesla has become the sixth company in US history to be worth $1 trillion (all are US-based except the Saudi Arabian state-owned Aramco oil entity). Tesla is the second fastest company to do so, reaching the US$1 trillion mark just more than 12 years after its 2010 initial public offering. Shares rose more than 12 per cent on Monday to close at...
socio political environment
corporate responsibility
In the ocean’s worth of new Facebook revelations, here are some of the most important drops
Joshua Benton, NiemanLab, 25 October 2021Joshua Benton synthesises various stories about the wall of public enquiries, revelations, accusations, and looming regulation for Facebook globally. The issues: the company’s role in the January 6 US Capitol insurrection in 2021, challenge to social media content moderation, the flight of younger people away from Instagram, and Apple's threat...
socio political environment
Chinese activists lament the end of the last major US social media platform in China: LinkedIn unlinked
Joyce Cheng, ABC News, 22 October 2021LinkedIn will shut down in China later this year after increased monitoring and censorship from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). It will be replaced by a new platform, InJobs, which only allows career networking. LinkedIn is the last major US social media platform in China, and activists say "the CCP has been using the great firewall...
socio political environment
Chinese activists lament the end of the last major US social media platform in China: LinkedIn unlinked
Joyce Cheng, ABC News, 22 October 2021LinkedIn will shut down in China later this year after increased monitoring and censorship from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). It will be replaced by a new platform, InJobs, which only allows career networking. LinkedIn is the last major US social media platform in China, and activists say "the CCP has been using the great firewall...
socio political environment
advocacy
How can journalists defend the free press?
The Economist Asks Podcast, The Economist, 22 October 2021In this episode of The Economist Asks, host Anne McElvoy asks joint Nobel Peace Prize winning journalists, Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov, how they are defending the free press. The panel discusses how their work safeguards freedom of expression and...
socio political environment
media relations
Most of the email in your inbox isn’t useful. Instead of managing it, try ignoring it
Life Kit Podcast, NPR, 21 October 2021This episode of NPR's Life Kit podcast explores how spending so much time on email can also get in the way of other work and life activities. However, instead of trying to manage a large inbox, it might be better to ignore or set up automated responders to be more productive without getting bogged down in ...
socio political environment
Facebook is planning a facelift
Alex Heath, The Verge, 19 October 2021Facebook is planning to change its company name next week to reflect its focus on building the 'metaverse'. The coming name change, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to talk about at the company’s annual Connect conference on October 28, is meant to signal the tech giant’s ambition to be known for more than social media and all the ills...
socio political environment