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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Mar 2013
Praveen Gupta outlines some of the proposed reforms to corporate law that could change the way companies operate in India.
Back in the 1950s, as a young republic, India chose to tread the socialistic path. Not surprisingly, the nationalisation of the following ensued: airline industry (1...
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CDM Article
01 Mar 2013
Fiona Baron investigates how companies are bedding down the carbon tax and coping with its compliance requirements.
The introduction of the Federal Government’s carbon tax in July 2012 was bound to be something of an anti-climax.
For directors in particular, once the politics surround...
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CDM Article
01 Aug 2012
Anne O’Donnell has experienced the sustainability debate from both sides: as CEO of a pioneering fund manager in this area and now as a sought-after company director. She talks to Tony Featherstone about how boards are handling this challenge.
Anne O’Donnell FAICD fondly remembers her ear...
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CDM Article
01 Aug 2012
Sir Stuart Hampson believes happiness is the key to company sustainability.
When Jigme Singye was King of Bhutan, he took the unconventional approach of declaring "Gross National Happiness" as the measure of success for his government. Bhutan is, of course, a country with a tiny populatio...
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CDM Article
01 May 2012
Sarah Barker looks beyond the domestic carbon tax debate to international trends in corporate sustainability and the implications for Australian boardrooms.
What issues dominate your strategic risk agenda in 2012-13? Access to capital? The high Australian dollar? Instability in internatio...
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CDM Article
01 Apr 2012
Zilla Efrat investigates the challenges faced in sustaining and harnessing the bounty of Australia’s extraordinary resources boom.
Australia is indeed the lucky country. Not only is it endowed with abundant mineral resources, it is on the doorstep of fast-growing and hungry resource cons...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Apr 2012
Tony Featherstone discusses how boards can prepare for further deterioration in sentiment towards big business as more companies make difficult restructuring decisions in the face of a slowing economy.
As global banking scandals go, a luxury cruise for top-performing staff seemed more like...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Mar 2012
Nichola Clark reports on how directors need to get up to speed with the changes coming as a result of the carbon tax and moves to reduce carbon emissions.
Over the past few years, most of us have sat in the stalls and watched what has felt like one of the longest soap opera performances i...
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Content Type:
Media Release
27 Sep 2011
The Directors Social Impact Study 2011, Australia’s only study examining the governance of the not-for-profit (NFP) sector and the contribution made by its directors, was launched on 27 September 2011.
The study reveals that on average non-executive directors of NFP organisations spend ...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Aug 2011
Tony Featherstone argues that boards should be preparing for heightened inspection of their organisations’ environmental, social and governance practices and sustainability reporting.
Corporate Australia, financial markets and billion-dollar super funds are on a collision course over susta...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Aug 2011
Tony Featherstone argues that directors can do more to disprove public misperceptions about their standards of ethics.
No finding in the Director Sentiment Index jarred more than views on ethics. The inaugural Australian Institute of Company Directors survey found most directors believed t...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Aug 2011
How do directors ensure the companies they oversee are behaving ethically? This was the topic discussed at a recent lunch hosted by the Australian Institute of Company Directors and AIA Australia. Zilla Efrat reports.
In the past, many companies considered business ethics to be part of the...