What are companies for?
BBC Radio 4 Analysis programme: 'What are companies for?' featuring Louise Oliver
What are companies for?
BBC Radio 4 Analysis programme: 'What are companies for?' featuring Louise Oliver
I was asked to contribute to BBC Radio 4 Analysis programme on 12th June 2023 in which Ruth Sunderland, the group business editor of the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday, asked industry leaders and thinkers about the purpose of companies. Should they be organisations designed to generate profits for the benefit of shareholders, or do they have a bigger role to play in society? What part do they play in environmental policy? Ruth investigates ESG investments, which claim to promote environmental, social and corporate governance best practice, and have become a trillion-pound industry. Why has ESG become a flashpoint in the US political culture wars and could the same happen in the UK?
You can listen to the full programme here.
Presenter: Ruth Sunderland
Producer: Farhana Haider
Editor: Clare Fordham
Sound Engineer: Nicky Edwards
Production Coordinator: Maria Ogundele
Contributors:
Mark Goyder, Founder, Tomorrow’s Company
Euan Munro, Chief Executive, Newton Investment Management
Merryn Somerset Webb, Senior Columnist at Bloomberg
Philip Gill, small investor and client of Piercefield Oliver
Giulia Chierchia, Executive Vice President for Strategy, Sustainability, and Ventures at BP
Louise Oliver, Co-Founder, Piercefield Oliver Chartered Financial Planners
Rachel, small investor and client of Piercefield Oliver
Dr Nina Seega, Director for the Centre for Sustainable Finance at the Cambridge Institute of Sustainability Leadership
Tariq Fancy, Former Chief Investment Officer for Sustainable Investing at BlackRock
Witold Henisz, Vice Dean and faculty director of the ESG initiative at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Louise Oliver
Founding Partner
Piercefield Oliver