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Content Type:
General
19 Jan 2011
Australian
Australian Shareholders’ Association (ASA). Read policy statements, submissions and opinion pieces.
St James Ethics Centre
International
AccountAbility
A UK-based but international member organisation concerned with developing competencies i...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Jul 2010
Steve Gibbs
explains why climate change is still a critical boardroom issue even though little progress has been made on an emissions trading scheme or international agreement on future action.
Keeping climate change on the table
With the shelving of the Carbon Pollution Reduction Schem...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Apr 2010
A number of reform initiatives could lead to an overhaul of the not-for-profit (NFP) sector. We asked three NFP directors how they believed the role of directors could change and what new challenges could be created for them.
Shaking up the NFP sector
Darren Beazley MAICDPresident, Asth...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Mar 2010
An AICD study unveils details about the huge contribution Australia’s directors make to the not-for-profit sector.
Directors’ Social Impact Study
Towards the end of 2009, AICD set out to gain further insights into the contribution directors make to the economy and society through their engagem...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Feb 2010
Mary Verschuer
examines the challenges faced by Australian directors following the recent Copenhagen climate summit.
Post-Copenhagen climate change challenges
The outcome of the Copenhagen climate summit was somewhat less than expected. Many hoped for some certainty about the cons...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Nov 2009
A peek at some of the issues directors need to consider as we edge into an increasingly carbon-constrained business world.
Climate change update
Corporate Australia has passed a key first hurdle with flying colours as it enters a new carbon constrained world.
The Department of Climate Change’s...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 May 2009
There is no escaping the new carbon economy.
Giles Parkinson
provides an update on the climate change homework directors need to do to avoid any surprises.
Gearing up for the carbon economy
There is no doubt that the carbon economy is upon us. Even with the uncertainty surroundin...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Apr 2009
Climate change poses yet another governance challenge for directors.
Dr Chris Mitchell
explains why vigilance and engagement are crucial for boards.
The new green-fields thinking
In a rapidly changing world, directors are required to reconsider old issues in new ways and are conf...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Feb 2009
Letters to the editor
I share E C Fox’s concern with the proposed Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) (Letters, Company Director, December 2008). The jolt to the political momentum behind the CPRS, delivered by the current global financial and economic crises, provides a timely opportunity to ...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Feb 2009
John M Green
argues that viewing corporate responsibility through a shareholder lens is not the least bit anti-social.
Take the ‘social’ out of CSR
In these dour days of slumping profits, volatile share prices and shrunken personal fortunes, the last thing many of us will worry about is ...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Jul 2008
Climate change has been added to the director’s report card.
Giles Parkinson
details how shareholders and analysts will be marking directors and their companies on this new test.
Passing the new climate test
It’s been just over two years since Westpac Banking Corp’s former CEO Da...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Mar 2008
Ian Porter
provides tips on how to prepare for a greener business world.
A new shade of green Sustainability has become an issue which all companies need to build into their thinking. The way we use resources as a society is changing and the demands from our customers are changing...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Aug 2007
This year, $146 billion of our taxes will go to welfare and culture and we will top that up further from our own back pockets. Phil Ruthven examines just how charitable Australians are when compared to our US and British counterparts.
The economics of compassion
As Australians we are a genero...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Jul 2007
Companies are increasingly finding that they can only flourish if they support their communities. Ian Dunlop discovered at the National Business Leaders Forum on Sustainable Development that corporate responsibility is here to stay.
A wake-up call for directors
The 8th National Business Leade...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Jul 2007
Directors and climate change
What should directors do about climate change?
What should you do if you are a director, but also a confirmed sceptic, a firm believer that global warming is a neo-Marxist delusion or caused by cosmic rays? Is it enough to proclaim your scepticism far and wide? Even if ...
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Content Type:
Policy Submission
09 Feb 2007
This submission lists AICD's opposition to aspects of the newly drafted recommendations. In general AICD believes that the Council should focus on establishing a stand-alone set of high level principles with companies required to disclosure how they meet each of them, rather than providing detailed ...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Jul 2006
Letters to the editor
In the May 2006 issue of Company Director, Ralph Kerle in his article ‘Creative Solutions to Business Problems’ touches on several key facets of the links between art and philosophy and its interplay with business. The article suggests that the business artist works on an empt...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Jun 2006
Letters to the editor
In the April issue of Company Director, the article on ‘Six Priorities for Boards in 2006’ took my attention. It prompted a simple, instructive test, based on two questions: Find the word ‘marketing’ and count the number of times the words ‘customer’ or ‘consumer’ are mentione...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Feb 2006
Change is inevitable…adapting is crucial
Change has never more been apparent than in today’s corporate arena. People, and the businesses they run, are no longer constrained by the four walls of their corporate headquarters. The phenomena of globalisation, emerging technologies, cultural shift...
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Content Type:
CDM Article
01 Jan 2006
Frequent flyer
Regarded as the architect of DHL’s recent success in Asia, John Mullen now has a new badge to brandish as joint CEO of DHL Express. The posting comes complete with a seat on the board of parent company, Deutsche Post World Net, and the ominous task of cracking the fiercely comp...