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  • 'Those who embrace ESG fuel innovation'

    Type: Research
    Publication date: 6/14/2024

    Organizations must restore the balance between business continuity and concern for people, nature and society, according to Prof. Albert Plugge in his inaugural speech on June 14. Plugge is professor of ESG Transformation & Digital Innovation at Nyenrode Business University. "Financial interests have prevailed since the industrial revolution, but that concept is no longer tenable."

    Albert Plugge

  • Corporate governance: ‘More and more parties are knocking on the door’

    Type: Research
    Publication date: 5/29/2024

    The way we govern our enterprises is under pressure, according to Prof. Dr. Jeroen Veldman in his inaugural lecture on May 29. “Organizations are increasingly confronted with expectations from various quarters. These expectations often pertain to mitigating systemic risks such as climate change. This development affects how we implement corporate governance."

    oratie Jeroen Veldman

  • Prof. dr. Albert Plugge appointed as Professor ESG Transformation & Digital Innovation

    Type: Education
    Publication date: 10/9/2023

    Prof. Dr. Albert Plugge has been appointed as Professor of ESG Transformation & Digital Innovation at Nyenrode Business University as of September 1. He is part of the Expertise Center Entrepreneurship, Governance & Stewardship.

    Albert Plugge

  • How to start embedding human rights in your business

    Type: Opinion
    Publication date: 4/18/2023

    There is an urgency to incorporate human rights policy into your business operations, as stated by Yulia Levashova, Assistant professor at Nyenrode Business Universiteit. Besides a moral duty to take good care of your employees and ensure that your company respect human rights, it also makes a ‘good business sense.’

  • Five issues for ESG

    Type: Education
    Publication date: 2/17/2023

    ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) dominates discussions in the boardroom. The reason for the growing importance attached to ESG is that it will significantly affect the landscape in which companies and boards operate.

    Jeroen Veldman

  • Transparency about ESG: Telling an honest story about sustainability

    Type: Research
    Publication date: 12/20/2022

    Major social issues continue to have an increasing impact, also on the business community. And these issues increasingly require corporate involvement. Remko Renes (member of the Nyenrode Corporate Governance Institute) and Auke de Bos (associated with the EUR and EY) elaborate on Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) factors. They think about the meaning and the importance of ESG, and the influence of this topic’s focus and transparency on organizations and directors and the roles of supervisors and audits. Based on their insights, they give recommendations to directors, supervisory directors, advisers and accountants.

    Coach House

  • Ronald Jeurissen, 25 years of ethical growth

    Type: Community
    Publication date: 12/13/2022

    Ronald Jeurissen looks back on 25 years Nyenrode: “My first day was hilarious. In the first hour I managed to get into a tiff, twice, and my career at Nyenrode hadn’t even started yet”.

  • Why the social duty of care for companies must be regulated by law

    Type: Research
    Publication date: 12/8/2022

    It is taking too long for companies to put well-being before profit. That is why a social duty of care must be enshrined in law. This is what Leen Paape says in his farewell speech as Professor of Corporate Governance at Nyenrode.

    Leen Pape small

  • Seven competences of ESG leaders

    Type: Education
    Publication date: 11/24/2022

    Successfully implementing ESG within organizations requires leadership. But what competences does a leader need to have in order to successfully implement ESG?

    Muel

  • “Our planet requires something different from us than bickering”

    Type: Community
    Publication date: 5/28/2021

    “Let’s embrace polarization. From the perspective of polarization, we can look at conflicting interests, map and connect them. That is the way to achieve innovation.” This is the appeal chairman MVO Netherlands, Maria van der Heijden, made during her introduction at the tenth Henk van Luijk lecture on May 27.

  • Climate change and social inequality require debate on corporate governance

    Type: Opinion
    Publication date: 2/7/2020

    Experts from the US, UK, Europe and the Netherlands shared knowledge and best practices with over 100 practitioners and academics at Nyenrode Business University.

  • Are businesses still failing to adequately consider financial implications of climate change?

    Type: Research
    Publication date: 1/21/2020

    It has become almost a necessity for business schools to teach future managers about how and why it is so crucial to consider the financial implications climate change will have.

  • Say goodbye to the tyranny of shareholder value and short-term thinking

    Type: About Nyenrode
    Publication date: 9/6/2018

    Capitalism and market forces have brought us great prosperity and progress. However, our current corporate governance system has compromised the stability and future of our society, explains Prof. Dr. Leen Paape in his speech. Our economy should not just be about profit and shareholder value, but about creating sustainable value, for everyone. According to Paape, it's time to broaden our view and redefine corporate governance. He calls upon society to relinquish the dominant logic and introduce system thinking, to define the long term and look for ways to allow companies to further take their place in society and strive for sustainable value creation.

  • Launch of a book writing process on Changing the Game

    Type: Research
    Publication date: 3/29/2018

    As a part of Nyenrode Corporate Governance Institutes strategic focus on 'Making Markets Fit for Purpose', Nyenrode Business Universiteit and NewForesight Consultancy facilitated an author workshop to write a book on 'Changing the Game: How to Achieve Sustainable Market Transformation'.

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  • Lack of Internal Audit Function an underlying risk

    Type: Research
    Publication date: 1/16/2018

    While larger listed companies are increasingly introducing an Internal Audit Function (IAF), this position rarely exists within smaller listed companies. The main reason cited is that these firms believe they are too small for such a role. This is one of the conclusions of the Internal Audit Monitor 2017 study carried out by FSV Risk Advisory on behalf of the Stichting Vaktechnisch Onderzoek IIA in collaboration with Nyenrode Business Universiteit.

  • THE MISSION: Making enterprises and markets fit for long term value creation for all stakeholders & society

    Type: Opinion
    Publication date: 9/29/2017

    The paradigm for, notably, listed and other systemic business (including institutional investors) is changing with business stewardship focusing on balanced long term value creation for all stakeholders and aligned with a widely-accepted societal agenda.

    kasteel

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