Nearly ten years ago we wrote about the UK’s National Health Service, summarising its origins and history to date, and with a strike by junior …
Five years after the Dieselgate scandal, we look at what has happened at the world’s no. 1 car manufacturer, to see if anything has really …
Last year we wrote about the dreadful way in which the pillars of the Australian banking system had been exploiting their trusting customers over many …
Deutsche Bank is Germany’s largest bank and one of the world’s most systemically important financial institutions. It is also, over the past two decades, one of the most heavily fined: …
BP has been in the news recently, in fact off and on since the Deepwater Horizon oil spill of 2010, which cost the company over $65 billion. The current focus, …
Wirecard Scandal – Quick Summary What happened:Wirecard, once valued at nearly €25bn, collapsed in 2020 after €1.9bn in cash was found to be missing.Core issue:A sustained pattern of false reporting, …
Executive Summary: HSBC’s board has again faced criticism for its poor succession planning following the abrupt resignation of chairman Mark Tucker. This article reviews the bank’s historical governance challenges, examines …
Nearly ten years ago we wrote about the UK’s National Health Service, summarising its origins and history to date, and with a strike by junior doctors looming, we considered its …
AI-generated visual representing confident board leadership navigating uncertainty – inspired by the themes explored in this article. In a recent article, Anjli Raval, Management Editor of the Financial Times, opened …
A recent article by Leo Lewis, the FT’s Tokyo Bureau Chief, dwelt on the importance of kaizen to the Japanese economy and the fact that the much larger Chinese economy …
Joan Güell Square in Colònia Güell, near Barcelona, a former company town. Photo: nito103/depositphotos Growing problems in Western Society Robert D Putnam, professor of Public Policy at Harvard University, published …
image: Rawpixel/Depositphotos Boards of companies have a clear set of legal responsibilities which define their role, how they should execute that role, and how their performance should be judged. Hence, …
In our recent article about the purpose of the new Consumer Duty Rules in changing the culture of the financial services industry, we drew attention to the importance the FCA …
