I’m nearing the end of writing the second edition of the book ‘Corporate Responsibility: a critical introduction‘, and I’ve been reflecting on the changes since I started on the first edition in 2006. These have been years of excitement and disappointment for anyone interested in the role of business in taking on the social and [...]
Any day now it will be my organisation, the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment‘s, annual world forum: this year on the topic of low carbon mobility. It should be a great event with prominent speakers and participants engaging on the economics and technologies of mobility in a low carbon economy. But the challenge [...]
I have been tied up with organising a conference in Oxford on business’ role as an agent in tackling climate change. Here is the blurb and you can register online. I’ll post about the conference once it’s over. What is business doing about climate change? Society wants economic growth and a better lifestyle, and it [...]
So, the unthinkable happened and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (USA) has a Republican senator. Why is this so monumentous for the rest of the world? Poke a stick into the virtual world and you will find innumerable analyses of what happened – my source of info on Massachusetts (my one time home) is WBUR. But [...]
When Copenhagen winds up in a week’s time it seems pretty certain the limo we’d hoped would whisk us away to a low carbon world won’t have shown up. We may have a better idea of what a limo looks like, and we will probably know what limo companies to avoid in future. But the [...]
Remember the advert, ‘And all because the lady loves Milk Tray’? A suave hero doing the derring-do to deliver a box of Cadbury’s best selling chocolate brand to ladies in exotic locations. The iconic ads ran for 35 years until they were axed in 2003. But Milk Tray is still a Cadbury’s best seller, and [...]
It’s holiday time so instead of the fortnightly posting, I’m rethinking, revamping and reposting a couple of blogs from earlier in the year. In May, I posted some thoughts about how Charles Darwin’s use of the word economy to mean “the mutually useful and apparently ‘economical’ mechanisms connecting living beings are understood as purposefully designed.” [...]
Pensions are the biggest source of investment capital in the world. They are going through a huge transformation of their own. It’s a transformation that will affect our responses to climate change in ways we’ve barely begun to think about. But the consequences could be enormous.
The Great War was a moment when we threw the full force of the status quo at a problem that was the upshot of that status quo, and wound up in a petrified death hold.
The highlight of this week is going to see Derren Brown – illusionist, magician, hypnotist, and all round fascinating entertainer. One thing he does is give teasing hints at how he performs his craft – here’s how I do this card trick, it’s obvious isn’t it, except I just did something entirely different and you [...]