When Janine Christian joined Nelson Mandela University in 2012, she was assigned the Corporate Governance module, which included sustainability as a topic. The notion of businesses being corporate citizens with rights and responsibilities fascinated her and she avidly began reading up on the topic. Read more about Janine here.
Even as the world economy has boomed over the last 40 years, growth within countries has been less and less equally shared. This is a social issue, of course, but at its core, it’s an economic one. Nothing resonates in the public consciousness unless it chimes with people’s felt experience. So, it was quite telling…
One of the people Mangakane Lehlogonolo (Nolo) Pududu credits for her choice of becoming a CA(SA) is her Grade 8 accounting teacher, Mrs. Sebastian. ‘She was absolutely amazing. The way she spoke about accounting, the way she was so passionate about it, I knew that this was what I wanted to do!’ Read Nolo’s story…
New trade policies must be based on a clear-eyed understanding of how globalisation is evolving, not on a backward-looking vision based on the last 30 years, write Laura Tyson and Susan Lund. Around the world, countries are rethinking the terms of engagement in global trade. This is not all bad; in fact, acknowledgment of globalisation’s…
People working in the USA are often employed at will, meaning that they are not protected from dismissal by their contracts. Although this can be worrisome, Martin believes this flexibility helps to create many work opportunities in the USA (the unemployment rate is only around 4%). Martin Pittorino tells us more. Please read the full interview…
In the past two decades, growth rates in the united states have fallen to half of what they were in the middle of the 20th century. the share of income accruing to the top 1% has nearly doubled since the 1970s, while the share of income going to all workers has fallen by nearly 10%.…
People around the globe are more connected to each other than ever before. Information, communication, and money are being exchanged at lightning speed. Goods and services produced in one part of the world are increasingly available in all parts of the world. It’s incredible the way the global economy has recovered from the 2008 financial…
Matt Knight (MK) from SAICA spoke to Carrick Wealth Director of Corporate and Client Solutions Anthony Palmer CA(SA) and Sion Gelgor CA(SA), Wealth Specialist at Carrick, about retirement planning in South Africa and offshore and asked them, first, about saving money. Hope is a false plan. The reality is that we are all retiring later,…
It’s impossible for anyone today to give a precise vision of how the next ten − much less five − years will unfold in the field of AI. That’s not to say that it’s impossible to make broad predictions about AI’s impact in the coming years and decades. Our aim here is different: to make…
The global economy has necessitated working across cultures and navigating the complexities of diversity. Leaders often focus on endless ‘tasks’ and neglect the ‘process’ of achieving those tasks. Organisation development practitioners are skilled in assisting leaders to attend to ‘process’. Read Paolo’s full article by fast-tracking here.