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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Dec 20, 2024A US appeals court has struck down Nasdaq’s diversity rules, which had set comply-or-explain diversity quotas for the board members of companies listed on the exchange, as reported by the Financial Times.
by Stephen Scott, Sir Keith Skeoch, Colin Mayer
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Jun 11, 2024Observations
Oct 03, 2023In a recent opinion piece in the Financial Times, Naomi Mercer, Senior Vice-President of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) at the American Bankers Association (ABA), highlights her organization's efforts to promote DEI within the banking industry. "Not only is it the right thing to do, it's good for business," she writes.