Here at the Maturity Institute (MI) we have been liaising with Nestlé for some years now, since we wrote our seminal report on their first OMINDEX® rating in 2015. More recently, we have been corresponding with CEO Mark Schneider and his Investor Relations team about a New York Times article asking whether Nestlé can be […]
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Our ESG Executive Education programme with Prague University of Economics and Business Posted on May 17, 2021 by Stuart Woollard We are delighted to present new course: Building Human-Powered Organisations – ORGANIZATIONAL MATURITY: Corporate Responsibility, Human Performance, and Societal Value, that is run in partnership with Prague University of Economics and Business. This course provides business leaders and managers with a […]
Andrew Hill’s recent management challenge at the Financial Times ‘Business School’ was to identify the ideal question to ask to a former CEO seeking a board position We thought the FT’s boardroom selection challenge was particularly interesting. With the emergence of ESG, board members are under more intense scrutiny and pressure than ever before – […]
The Maturity Institute’s OMINDEX® provides a practical solution to the most wicked management problem facing the world Presumably, the purpose of company law is to ensure that companies behave responsibly? In UK company law, Section 172 of the Companies Act of 2006 is headed ‘Duty to promote the success of the company’ and does its […]
The Maturity Institute’s OMINDEX® ESG standard generates the base measure for its ‘Total Stakeholder Value’ metric. With its 32-factors, it provides boards and c-suites with a foundational, whole diagnostic system for the management and creation of value; for shareholders and all other societal stakeholders, without trade off. What is your company’s management system? It’s a […]
The Financial Times has been grappling with questions of corporate responsibility for some time now and the advent of ESG investing has forced it to produce its own version of what “Responsible Business Education” should look like. Here are a few choice quotes: “The term the professor used was ‘frame-breaking change’. And what I saw […]
Our guide to responsible management ‘The Mature Corporation – a Model of Responsible Capitalism’ is now available in paperback. The Mature Corporation is the guide we use to teach our global OMINDEX® organisational health diagnostic standard. It is a book with an alternative economic “Theory of the firm” – where profit maximisation is replaced by […]
In the knowledge economy, human capital or “people” are the most important resource that an organization uses. ALL people are important to an organization – professionals and skilled, semi-skilled or unskilled – they are all part of the system that allows the organization to achieve its stated purpose. However, reporting to owners and investors about […]
“…. the great test all countries will soon face is whether current feelings of common purpose will shape society after the crisis.” “Virus lays bare the frailty of the social contract – Radical reforms are required to forge a society that will work for all” FT Editorial Board, 3 April 2020 Coronavirus exit strategies can pave […]
Davos this year coincides with the 50th birthday of the World Economic Forum (WEF). So Gillian Tett, under the FT’s Moral Money series, chose this opportunity to ask its founder, Klaus Schwab, a list of fundamental questions about the relevance of WEF’s annual show. In the face of mounting global problems these questions are increasingly […]