A tobacco company’s ranking as the third most environmentally and socially responsible companies in the FTSE 100 is a call to rethink how we measure business performance and worth.

Adopt an inside out approach to successfully navigate changing circumstances and position your business for lasting success.

A new world of data proliferation makes extra-financial information accessible. Before, shareholders and investors could only measure a company based on a slice of intelligence. Now, they can - theoretically - evaluate the entire pie.

There is a fresh revolution of collaborative counter culture brewing against perceived authoritative leadership. The world’s most successful collaborate more than ever before.

Revising London’s listing rules for special purpose acquisition companies could give The City the competitive edge it needs to excel post-Brexit. But get it wrong and significant pools of capital marked for sustainable investments may go to other markets.

Brand and reputation are often confused. But one is more important than the other for long-term success. Understand this and you can prime your business for the future. 

Next week, the long-awaited EU Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) kicks in. ESG is no longer optional.

Look forwards not backwards. Analyse individual customers and you miss the crowd. Just ask real innovators.

Last month, a handful of amateur investors conspired to drive up the share price of struggling video game retailer GameStop. Here’s how a question of trading became a question of democracy and capitalism.

The pandemic was precedented and predicted.  Just ask Bill Gates.  The dramatic destruction and resetting of our world happens time and time again.  Consider these lessons from history. 

One theme will dominate the ESG conversation this year: corporate disclosures. Disclosing information about your company’s ESG performance is now a necessity, not a luxury.  You are in a competition for capital, based on non-financial metrics.

How Communications has evolved from Mr Ernst and Mr Young, Mr Goldman and Mr Sachs, to the objective, holistic guidance clients need today.

Most companies invest significant time and expense to address ESG concerns - yet fail to turn that competitive advantage into currency with potential and actual investors.

The defining issues of 2020 were a stark reminder that capital markets and real-world events are inextricably linked.

Research reveals entrepreneurial work is more uncertain, more complex, more stressful, more pressured and less lucrative than corporate work - so why so we do it?

“A litmus test”; “a turning point”; “a watershed moment”; “the year it finally came of age”: in a variety of different headlines and idioms, 2020 has been credited as a critical milestone for environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing. Where does that leave your business?

Meet our founders on the very first day of Williams Nicolson.