Bjarne Tellmann is senior vice president and general counsel at GSK Consumer Healthcare, a joint venture that combines the consumer brands of GSK and Pfizer. He speaks to Global Finance about the intersectionality of his work.
Household saving is defined as the difference between a household’s disposable income and its expenditures on goods and services. During the pandemic it rose to historical highs everywhere.
On October 27, Global Finance conducted a Sub-custody Roundtable, moderated by publisher and editorial director Joseph Giarraputo. The Roundtable agenda covered crucial topics in the sub-custody sector including: the global and regional impact on the COVID-19 pandemic on sub-custodians; the effect ...
In this month’s cover story we find out how companies are working to reduce their environmental impact—and their cost base—by greening their supply chains. With one eye on potential future regulations that will put a price on carbon emissions and one eye on simple cost-benefits, companies are looking at how they can source raw materials and parts closer to home—or to their eventual markets—and to use only suppliers that are reliably evaluating their own environmental impact.
Such efforts demonstrate how far the corporate world has come in integrating the concept of sustainable business into day-to-day operations. Not so long ago, even bringing awareness of the long-term benefits of environmental and social awareness into the boardroom seemed a near-impossible dream. Today, such considerations are at the top of corporate agendas. There is still a long way to go before truly sustainable business is the norm, but the progress made so far is laudable.