Book Lounge: The Healthy Company
22 June 2021: Launch of “The Healthy Company” with authors Prof Mervyn King and Leigh Roberts. The Health Company is a handbook for directors and executives – and those on their way to getting there.
Category: Past Event
Risk and Rewards of Sustainability Reporting
22 April 2021: Panel discussion with global experts as input to the 5th Colloquium on Enterprise Value Creation which discussed how to realize the benefits of sustainability reporting but also recognize and respond to associated threats.
5th Colloquium: Enterprise Value Creation
The error of corporate leaders in the 20th century was to focus on increasing the wealth of shareholders instead of focusing on increasing the long-term health of the company. This “primacy of the shareholder” was unsustainable and has been replaced by enterprise value creation, preservation and erosion.
ESG Workshop
The Sustainable Development Goals have been described as a $12 trillion “purchase order from the future”. So how can your business respond ambitiously and authentically? In an ever-more complex and uncertain world, yesterday’s business models are no longer fit for purpose.
4th Colloquium: The Importance of ESG
Up to 80% of the market cap of companies are not additives in a balance sheet according to financial reporting standards. This percentage is made up of environmental, social and governance issues.
Fireside Chat: ESG and Stewardship in the 21st Century
Reformulating social imaginary from one of despair to one of hope during a time of multiple crises.
Integrated Reporting 2020 Updates
This event discussed the International Integrated Reporting Council’s (IIRC) revision of the Integrated Reporting Framework. This consultation process was open until 19 August 2020. The launch of the revision is scheduled for January 2021.
3rd Colloquium: Integrated Thinking and Doing an Integrated Report
The International Federation of Accountants (IFAC), in November 2019, issued a statement saying that there has to be accounting for value creation and that it is preferable that the chief financial officer is known as the Chief Value Officer.
2nd Colloquium: Effective Corporate Leadership
The Second Colloquium of The Good Governance Academy was held on 28 November 2019. As with the first colloquium there was input from universities and business schools on a critical governance issue, namely Effective Corporate Leadership.
1st Colloquium: Value creation in a sustainable manner
This first colloquium invited speakers to discuss matters of importance for the creation of organizational value in a sustainable manner.