Cadbury directors sell out to detriment of long term stakeholder interests

(22-Jan-2010)

On Tuesday the board of British chocolate manufacturer Cadbury recommended shareholders to accept the offer from US food giant Kraft – who need to borrow £7bn to pay for Cadburys.

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China's one child policy and 24 million "bare branches"

(15-Jan-2010)

The Chinese Academy of Sciences published a report this week estimating that there will be 24 million “bare branches” – men in China unable to find a wife – by 2020. This has its roots in the one child policy introduced 30 years ago, to curb soaring birth rates resulting from Mao’s population policy. However...

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Collateral damage: Eastern Europe's victims of trade disputes

(08-Jan-2010)

Energy supplies to central Europe could be disrupted again this winter after Russia cut oil deliveries to neighbouring Belarus in a dispute over tariffs, reported the Guardian earlier this week. In what is becoming an annual confrontation

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“Relationships are the missing piece of the political puzzle.  As we struggle to adapt to the domination of the bottom line and to constant economic, social and technological change, the factor invariably omitted from the equation is human relationships.”  Lindsay Tanner, Australian MP and cabinet minister.

 

"Happiness and well being do not come from our freedom to break free of bonds but instead to commit ourselves to relationships. Our sense of identity does not simply come from within – what we want to be – but from our interconnectedness and interdependence." Charles Leadbeater, author and consultant







Social elements of TBL (triple bottom line) reporting (Philip Powell, 2010)
Brief research report on how large public companies are thinking about and reporting on their social impact
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