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A New Era of Stakeholder Activism: Why We Are Disoriented and What to Do About It – Part 3

By Keith Darcy and Morgan Hamel Conclusion The expectations of stakeholders of business have grown substantially over the past several decades and will continue to expand as the awareness and consciousness of society members continue to be raised through advanced media and information delivery systems. Perceiving social responsibility, however, as building shared value rather thanContinue reading “A New Era of Stakeholder Activism: Why We Are Disoriented and What to Do About It – Part 3”

A New Era of Stakeholder Activism: Why We Are Disoriented and What to Do About It – Part 2

An Essay by Keith Darcy and Morgan Hamel Previously, employees and other stakeholders were reluctant to raise concerns and lacked an effective means to do so. Today, however, social media has changed the game completely – stakeholders everywhere have awakened to their power to demand seismic changes in the way businesses conduct themselves. A reportContinue reading “A New Era of Stakeholder Activism: Why We Are Disoriented and What to Do About It – Part 2”

I Believe

Growing up in the Bronx in the 1950s I was still in my single digits. Television was in its infancy. Our first t.v. had a three inch screen, and later we graduated to a thirteen inch set, both black and white. One of my favorite shows in those early days was Peter Pan starring MaryContinue reading “I Believe”

God’s Work and Conflicts of Interest

[Click above to download full article to be published in REVUE INTERNATIONALE DE LA COMPLIANCE ET DE L’ÉTHIQUE DES AFFAIRES.] U.S. Supreme Court, June 21, 2021, Goldman Sachs et. al. v. Arkansas Teachers Retirement System et. al. Background In November 2009, the world was still recovering from the catastrophic impact of the Great Recession. In responseContinue reading “God’s Work and Conflicts of Interest”

A Failure of Leadership

Most of us remember exactly where we were and what we were doing on the morning of September 11, 2001. I remember the day clearly. At 8:50 a.m., I was sitting with the bank’s CFO in a conference room facing the Hudson River and New York Harbor at our headquarters in lower Manhattan. We wereContinue reading “A Failure of Leadership”