In recent years, companies have felt the pressure to be transparent about their environmental impact. Large documents containing summaries of yearly emissions rates, carbon output, and utilized resources are shared on companies’ social media pages, websites, and employee briefings in a bid for public confidence in corporate responsibility.
And yet, Matthew A ... Show More
Mar 2
Claire Provost and Matt Kennard, "Silent Coup: How Corporations Overthrew Democracy" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
As European empires crumbled in the 20th century, the power structures that had dominated the world for centuries were up for renegotiation. Yet instead of a rebirth for democracy, what emerged was a silent coup – namely, the unstoppable rise of global corporate power.
Exposing t ... Show More
44m 32s
Feb 28
Barbie Zelizer, "How the Cold War Broke the News: The Surprising Roots of Journalism's Decline" (Polity, 2025)
Most of us would agree that American journalism has problems. Rushed reporting and thin coverage. Timidity in the face of adversity. Polarized perspectives and euphemistic language. Groupthink about complicated events.While much blame has been levelled at big tech, in How the Col ... Show More
40m 29s
Feb 21
Josh Milburn, "Food, Justice, and Animals: Feeding the World Respectfully" (Oxford UP, 2023)
How would we eat if animals had rights? A standard assumption is that our food systems would be plant-based. But maybe we should reject this assumption. Indeed, this book argues that a future non-vegan food system would be permissible on an animal rights view. It might even be de ... Show More
1h 16m
Apr 2021
Harnessing Purpose for Sustainability
In our next episode of the Building Competitive Advantage in a Sustainable World podcast, David Young, our BCG Henderson Institute Fellow researching Sustainable Business Model Innovation, interviews BrightHouse CEO Ashley Grice.Ashley discusses how Purpose helps companies articu ... Show More
14m 9s
Oct 2025
The global impact of Europe’s accounting evolution
<p>A video of this podcast is available on YouTube, Spotify, or PwC’s website at <a href='https://viewpoint.pwc.com/us/en/accounting-podcasts.html'>viewpoint.pwc.com</a></p><p>This week, host Heather Horn is joined by Eelco van der Enden, CEO of Accountancy Europe. In this episod ... Show More
53m 19s
Jun 2025
The Promises, Pitfalls, and Trade-offs of the Circular Economy
Most businesses are built on a linear model: take, make, and discard. But that norm is reaching its limits, and leaders are under pressure to find smarter, more sustainable ways to operate. Weslynne Ashton is a systems scientist and professor at the Illinois Institute of Technolo ... Show More
20m 36s
<p><b>A video of this podcast is available on YouTube, Spotify, or PwC’s website at</b> <a href='https://viewpoint.pwc.com/us/en/accounting-podcasts.html'><b>viewpoint.pwc.com</b></a></p><p>Greenhouse gas (GHG) reporting continues to evolve, with companies facing increasing compl ... Show More
<p>A <a href='https://bit.ly/Foundational-reporting-concepts'>video</a> of this podcast is available on <a href='https://bit.ly/Foundational-reporting-concepts'>YouTube</a>, Spotify, or PwC’s website at <a href='https://viewpoint.pwc.com/us/en/accounting-podcasts.html'>viewpoint. ... Show More
