Past distinctions between ‘society’ and ‘the market’ are blurred in ways that present new challenges. Customers, employees, and investors raise an increasingly loud voice, insisting that firms and their leaders take concrete steps towards alleviating social tensions and imbalances – both those predating and those exacerbated throughout the Covid-pandemic.
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Jun 23, 2025In an interview with Professor Harvey Whitehouse, he argues that understanding our evolved psychology is critical to managing conduct risk, governance, and organizational culture. He highlights universal moral rules—like fairness and deference—as tools for scaling cooperation in diverse entities. Failing to align governance with innate human behavior fosters misconduct and toxic environments, whereas tapping into identity fusion can enhance psychological safety and collective accountability.
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Jun 11, 2024Capitalism is again suffering one of its many periodic crises. This time, however, it’s not the result of economic consequences stemming from a major financial market crash or panic. Rather, there appears Sir Keith Skeoch to be a growing lack of confidence that the economic model which has delivered such wide-spread prosperity over the last 400 years is now failing to do so, despite the economy recovering from the deep recession caused by pandemic-induced lock downs.
by Stephen Scott, Sir Keith Skeoch, Colin Mayer
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