Stop Negotiating
9 May 2024 One way to ease the climate crisis is for the companies which emit the most greenhouse gases to stop voluntarily. This isn’t...
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Robert Hinkley
- May 8
- 1 min
Ready for Change
In September 2000, Business Week magazine published a poll where Americans voiced a strong preference for corporations owing something to...
Robert Hinkley
- May 7
- 1 min
A New Strategy to Halt Global Warming
Hope for the Future Every Conference of the Parties has discussed ways to limit greenhouse gas emissions. Afterwards, the delegates...
Robert Hinkley
- May 6
- 1 min
Thought for the Day: The Better Option
Legally modifying the corporate goal to better protect the environment will be much more effective than first trying to stop corporate...
Robert Hinkley
- May 5
- 1 min
Thought for the Day
Photo by Richard Miller Permit me to ask you a few questions: Are you comfortable living in a world driven by self-interest where...
Robert Hinkley
- Apr 18
- 1 min
European Court of Human Rights' Game Changing Decision
Here’s a link to my radio appearance yesterday on community radio in Geelong. I discuss (beginning at 11:37 and ending at 25:11) the...
Robert Hinkley
- Mar 18
- 2 min
The Lehman Trilogy--Outstanding
I went to see The Lehman Trilogy (Trilogy) in Sydney yesterday. Great theatre. It's about much more than the rise and fall of Lehman...
Robert Hinkley
- Mar 15
- 7 min
The Ten Commandments and Corporate Social Responsibility
15 March 2024 A friend of mine, a good Catholic, asked me to compare the Ten Commandments (Commandments) with the Code for Corporate...
Robert Hinkley
- Feb 4
- 3 min
The Corporate Citizenship Debate
By Robert C. Hinkley 4 February 2024 "We have in our midst large institutions which can’t be kept from destroying the public interest. ...
Robert Hinkley
- Jan 26
- 2 min
Pat III--The Code
26 January 2024 “A director…of a corporation must exercise [her] powers and discharge [her] duties…in the best interests of the...
Robert Hinkley
- Jan 22
- 2 min
Government Of, By and For the People: Part II—Universal and Noncontroversial
By Robert C. Hinkley 21 January 2024 I suggested earlier that the public may be able to force legislators to enact a new law which will...
Robert Hinkley
- Jan 19
- 2 min
Government Of, By and For the People--Part I
By Robert C. Hinkley 19 January 2024 Global emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) continue to rise. Every day, the threat of climate...
Robert Hinkley
- Jan 8
- 2 min
A Change in Tactics
8 January 2024 Annie, my spouse and partner of nearly 50 years, watched On the Basis of Sex, the Ruth Bader Ginsberg biographical film,...
Robert Hinkley
- Dec 17, 2023
- 2 min
Thought for the Day
Photo by Richard Miller 12/16. Enforcing the Code. (Part 5). Some have asked how the Code for Corporate Citizenship (Code) can hold...
Robert Hinkley
- Dec 9, 2023
- 2 min
Thought for the Day
12/9. Enforcing the Code. (Part 4). Sceptics may suggest directors will ignore the Code because it fails to define what is meant by the...
Robert Hinkley
- Dec 6, 2023
- 2 min
Thought for the Day
12/6. (Part 3). Enforcing the Code. Why the Code for Corporate Citizenship (Code) will be effective without precisely defining the term...
Robert Hinkley
- Dec 4, 2023
- 2 min
Thought for the Day
12/3. (Part 2). Enforcing the Code. When new business regulations are proposed, two competing considerations arise. Victims of abusive...
Robert Hinkley
- Dec 1, 2023
- 2 min
Thought for the Day
12/1. (Part 1). Enforcing the Code. A change to the corporate law duty of directors must be enacted that simply tells the directors...
Robert Hinkley
- Nov 30, 2023
- 2 min
That's Not What COPS Are For
By Robert C. Hinkley 30 November 2023 The headline in this morning’s Washington Post, read “The UAE has Big Plans for a ‘Success Story’...
Robert Hinkley
- Nov 29, 2023
- 2 min
Thought for the Day
11/29. What went wrong after the last 27 COPs? Why were laws not passed restricting emissions as promised by each nation to all the...
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