Former EventsBusiness seminar: “Challenges in the Corporate Landscape and Effective Board Diversity” - February 1, 2016.
Center for Corporate Governance, in cooperation with the Board Leadership Society and AMROP (Executive Search Firm)
hosted this business seminar. Prominent speakers (from Denmark and abroad) presented their views on how to create a board of directors that will be best qualified to support the companies in facing the challenges in the business environment. The presentations was followed by a round table discussion that focused specifically on Nordic companies, with the aim of initiating the path towards the design of an enhanced Nordic board model. 18th Conference of the International Association for the Economics of Participation (IAFEP) - July 6-9, 2016.
The IAFEP Conference, which take place every two years, provided an international forum for presentations and discussions of current research on the economics of participation. Scholars from different fields of study (industrial and labor economics, development economics, organizational studies, sociology, political science, law, philosophy, etc.) presented their recent research on economics of democratic and participatory organizations, such as labor-managed firms, cooperatives and firms with broad-based employee share-ownership, profit sharing and worker participation schemes, as well as democratic nonprofit, community and social enterprises. Nordic
Finance and the Good Society Events
During the year of 2016, several seminars were hosted by CCG in relation to the Nordic Finance and the Good Society project.
In September, CCG hosted the seminar: “The Future of the Financial Sector – How to promote an equity culture in Denmark?” .
Later in the same month, Professor John Kay visited CCG. John Kay is a highly distinguished academic, a successful businessman, an adviser to companies and governments around the world, and an acclaimed columnist. In this talk, John Kay described how financialisation came about, identified how finance improved the efficiency of business and the lives of households, and proposed a programme of reform.
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