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Leadership/Winter 2021

Heroes & Zeros: Storebrand vs. Uber

by Bernard Simon

Storebrand dumps anti-climate lobbiers, while Uber lobbies against

Black Lives Matter vs. Loblaws
Fall 2020/Leadership

Heroes & Zeros: Black Lives Matter vs. Loblaws

by Bernard Simon

Big business and the public rally behind Black lives, while major grocers go from Heroes to Zeroes in a few short months

Summer 2020

Heroes and zeros: Covid edition

by Bernard Simon

The COVID-19 pandemic has been an excellent opportunity to test which companies are living up to the U.S. Business Roundtableโ€™s pledge last

Leadership/Winter 2020

Heroes and zeros: Interface's Mission Zero vs. Blackstone Group's sickly suits

by Bernard Simon

Hero: Interface Ray Anderson set an ambitious target in 1994. The founder and chief executive of Interface Inc. had just read Paul

Cargill named Worst Company on Earth
Fall 2019/Leadership

Heroes & Zeros: Business Roundtable evolves, while Cargill named worst company on earth

by Bernard Simon

Zero: Cargill Sadly, there is no shortage of choice for the title of Worst Company on Earth. A host of sweatshops surely

Vale
Summer 2019

Heroes & zeros: Volkswagen and Vale

by Bernard Simon

For the past three years in a row, Volkswagen has sold more vehicles than any other carmaker on the planet. Yet that

Spring 2019

Heroes and zeros: Vanguard's John Bogle and Postmedia's Paul Godfrey

by Bernard Simon

Hero: Vanguard founder John Bogle   For years, small investors measured their portfoliosโ€™ performance by little more than day-to-day swings in share

Connected Planet/Responsible Investing/Winter 2019

Heroes & Zeros: Seychelles vs. Facebook

by Bernard Simon

Hero:ย  Seychelles' blue bonds First, in 2007, came the โ€œgreen bond,โ€ the debt instrument that has raised hundreds of billions of dollars

Fall 2018/Workplace

Heroes & zeros: Danby and McKinsey

by Bernard Simon

Hero: Itโ€™s not easy for Jim Estill to assess whether his unusually generous support for Syrian refugees has helped or hurt his

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