Team members

Eleanor Shearer

Senior Research Fellow

Leela Jadhav

Researcher

Chris Hayes

Chief Economist

Sophie Flinders

Senior Data Analyst

Mathew Lawrence

Director
14.06.2025

Corporate Accountability After Grenfell

How could new legal frameworks more effectively hold companies responsible for negligence?
22.09.2024

Shareholder Primacy and Business Investment

A more participatory and purpose-led form of corporate governance is the key to improving the UK’s low levels of business investment and poor productivity.
16.05.2024

A Firm Partnership

This briefing note introduces Common Wealth’s upcoming programme of corporate governance reform, launching this summer with a mix of research, policy development and advocacy.
15.05.2024

Dynamics of Corporate Governance Beyond Ownership in AI

Big Tech dominates investment in AI technology; a public strategy for regulation is crucial to challenge uneven distributions of economic power.
07.07.2020

The Green Recovery Act

Nine steps to secure a green and fair recovery.
24.03.2023

Stagnant and Unequal: How the UK is an Outlier in Corporate Governance and Why That Matters

09.12.2020

Timeline: Anti-monopoly Action in the United States

02.12.2020

Big Tech's Monopoly Power

13.11.2019

Examining the Inclusive Ownership Fund

02.05.2022

The Great Divide: Examining Labour Compensation and Dividend Growth

27.10.2022

Buy Back Better: The Case for Raising Taxes on Dividends and Buybacks

11.10.2022

The Big Buyback

This briefing is published in collaboration with IPPR as part of our programme of work exploring profits and corporate power post-pandemic.
29.05.2019

Ownership Funds in the US

26.07.2020

Interview: Michelle Meagher on Competition and the Firm

Anti-trust lawyer Michelle Meagher explains the problem with how we regulate monopolies.
29.10.2020

Interview: Isabelle Ferreras on Workplace Democracy and the Firm as a Political Entity

“Work is, par excellence, the most political experience that people get.”
12.06.2019

Democratic Ownership Funds: Creating Shared Wealth and Power

Recent decades have seen a rapid and little-discussed transformation in corporate ownership structure, with vital consequences for company behaviour and inequality.
17.04.2020

Commoning the Company

Rewriting company rules and building public wealth for a fairer, stronger post-crisis economy.
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