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For the past 50 years, the primary role of business in society has been to maximise shareholder return. But things are changing and the idea of business being a force for good is gaining momentum. Mike Middleton, CEO of Marty McFly - and Andrew Ross, CEO of Chaos...

Our Rehumanizing Business Webinar, facilitated by Mike Middleton with panelists Kerryn Kohl, Jo Watt and Jo Skipper, set the scene for the series and focused on the disconnect between current organization culture and emerging employee aspirations. This is a free...

Consumers, especially the youth market, have a stronger affiliation with brands and businesses that go beyond the profit motive, adapt to show social responsibility and awareness, and don’t just pay lip service to popular causesThe Covid-19 pandemic is forcing brands...

Nobel Prize winner Milton Friedman wrote a seminal article in 1970 stating that there is only one social responsibility of business, and that is to increase profits. In essence, he claimed that the sole purpose of business should be about a long-term increase in...

In 2003, the film “The Corporation” was launched posing the very provocative question “if corporations are considered by law to be legal persons, what type of person would they be?” The conclusion was that they would be classified as psychopaths because they impose...

For the past 50 years, the primary role of business in society has been to maximise shareholder return, a consequence of Milton Friedman's seminal article in the New York Times in 1970 in which he stated that "any other use of shareholders money was irresponsible"....