Most boards still concentrate decision-making in fiduciaries structurally tethered to shareholder primacy, even as hybrid legal forms, together with shifting stakeholder expectations, push in a different direction.
Successful organisations in the 2030s will look very different from those today. The question isn’t whether to adapt, it’s how quickly you can reframe. Boards with Impact synthesises our experience to offers some essential settings for boards to integrate impact with confidence.
Developed by Impact Strategist and Initiative for Responsible Investment, with support from UK Aid and the MacArthur Foundation
R Addis, F Michaux, S McCutchan with contributions from the Australian Advisory Board on Impact Investing, 2018
R Addis with contributions from the GSG Working Group on Widening & Deepening the impact economy
written on behalf of the Australian Advisory Board on Impact Investing (AAB) by R Hill and R Addis with support from the team at Impact Investing Australia and the AAB’s Strategy Working Group, 2017
T Davies & J Newman for Social Finance and R Hill & R Addis for Impact Strategist, 2016
E Castellas, S Findlay, R Addis, 2016
R Addis in Social Finance, Nicholls, Paton & Emerson (eds) OUP, 2015
R Addis, S McCutchan, P Munro, 2015
R Addis, A Bowden, D Simpson for the Australian Advisory Board on Impact Investing, 2014
R Addis, J McLeod, A Raine, for the Australian Department of Education, Employment & Workplace Relations, 2013
R Addis & C Brown, for the R.E. Ross Trust, Myer Foundation, Sydney Myer Foundation & Ian Potter Foundation, 2008
R Addis for the R.E. Ross Trust, 2007
Written by: Tom Davies & Jane Newman for Social Finance and Regina Hill & Rosemary Addis for Impact Strategist