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Sustainability: Where’s it Heading?

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Miguel Reynolds Brandão on August 31, 2015

From the public debate over Amazon’s workplace culture to the Security and Exchange Commission’s approval of the CEO-to-worker rule, it’s been an interesting few weeks for those of us who care about sustainable organizations. Clearly people have strong feelings about what companies owe society and how front-line workers should be treated.

When the SEC rule finally goes forward, publicly traded companies will

Risk Appetite Explained
In the face of the many recent failures of financial institutions, following market and asset crises and in the context of mounting regulatory demands from Basel 3, Solvency 2 and Dodd Frank, risk management is a topic high on the executive agenda. In particular, much emphasis has been placed on risk appetite and the role it has to play in an enterprise risk management approach, as part of an overall strategy execution process.

But what is Risk appetite?
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