Qantas, PwC, Rio Tinto, Crown, the banks: There’s something rotten at the big end of town
Bernard Keane and Glenn Dyer argue that Qantas is the latest indicator of the rot at the soul of Australian businesses.
Sacking of James Hardie CEO shows boards are favouring an honesty approach to terminations
The shock dismissal of James Hardie boss Jack Truong is the latest in a series of previously unthinkable public terminations of CEOs over their behaviour.
Ignorance is not bliss: Why company directors need to take responsibility
Pleading ignorance and blaming management — as Crown and other directors have tried — is no longer good enough.
This year, we have a chance to make business noble again
As 2020 came to a close, Mod&Co founder Megan O'Donnell found herself asking: is this a time where business can be noble again?
How a crisis strips away a company’s ‘values statement’ and reveals what it really stands for
Studies show no correlation between a company's 'values statement' and how well employees think the company lives up to those values.
“Egregious act of cultural vandalism”: Why heads rolled at Rio Tinto
Outraged investors have forced Rio Tinto's board to sack its chief executive Jean-Sebastien Jacques and two other senior executives.
“A reputation gets traded every day”: The true cost of Rio Tinto’s decision to blow up historic Indigenous site
When the mining giant put profit ahead of posterity and destroyed an ancient Indigenous site, its own reputation was reduced to rubble.
‘An act of business bastardry’: Big business keeps squeezing small suppliers on payments in face of COVID-19
Small Business Minister Michaelia Cash has warned big businesses the COVID-19 pandemic is no excuse for delaying payments to small suppliers, but that is not stopping some companies.
“Fundamentally flawed”: Big business manipulating BCA supplier code
Small business ombudsman Kate Carnell has called for the BCA's supplier payment code to be scrapped, saying big firms are manipulating and shirking promises.
Carnell slams supply chain finance schemes as exposé reveals Rio Tinto, Telstra pushed “dynamic discounting” on SMEs
Small business ombudsman Kate Carnell has issued a warning to big businesses squeezing SME margins by pushing supply chain financing arrangements onto them.
Worried about Chinese influence? Take a peek at who owns Australia’s biggest companies
The attention being given to Chinese influence in Australia shouldn’t distract us from recognising US influence already occurs through investment.
Entrepreneurs welcome $3 billion pledge to help Indigenous business boom
Entrepreneurs have welcomed a $3 billion pledge from big business to increase supply contracts with Indigenous business owners.
