TANC Presents Business Ethics: Lessons from Corporate Scandals
Thursday 25th February 2016, 18:00 - 21:00
Room 2002, Cass Business School
106 Bunhill Row
London
EC1Y 8TZ
Description
They say you should never waste a good crisis. Corporate scandals and spectacular company failures can teach us a lot about the link between business ethics, governance and financial performance. This talk will use case studies such as Afren, Olympus, Tesco and Barclays to highlight the importance of ethics, governance and responsibility in today’s business environment.
Agenda
18:00 - 18:30 Registration
18:30 - 20:00 Presentation and Q&A
20:00 - 21:00 Networking and refreshments
About the Speaker: Ashley Hamilton Claxton, Corporate Governance Manager, RLAM
Ashley oversees RLAM’s corporate governance analysis, company engagement and proxy voting. She also conducts environmental and social research and analysis for the banking, construction and property sectors. She writes a regular article for CityWire Wealth Manager on corporate governance and sustainability issues and has been widely quoted in the UK’s national newspapers. Before joining RLAM, Ashley was a Shareholder Engagement Executive at PIRC where she conducted corporate engagement and analysis for the Local Authority Pension Fund Forum (LAPFF). Prior to that she was a research analyst and corporate engagement consultant for SHARE, a proxy voting and shareholder engagement consultancy based in Vancouver, Canada. She has a Master of Arts degree and a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of British Columbia.
About TANC - The Actuarial Network at Cass
TANC is a special interest group that organises events for Actuarial Alumni and friends of Cass Business School and City University. We offer unique and interesting events in slightly wider fields than actuarial professional may typically have access to through their work. This is a unique opportunity for you to be involved in a community for those interested in continuing professional and personal development amongst like-minded professionals, alumni and friends and to have some fun too!
Please contact tanc@city.ac.uk to be put on the waiting list.
This event is currently sold out.
This event is hosted in conjunction with CANUK
