Nick Robins is head of socially responsible investment research at an investing company in the City of London. Among his books is The Corporation that Changed the World: How the East India Company Shaped the Modern Multinational (Pluto Books/Orient Longman, 2006).

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More than a century after its demise, the legacy of the East India Company continues to haunt both Europe and Asia. India's triple anniversaries in 2007 should be the occasion for a reckoning with this pioneering corporate giant, argues Nick Robins.

The global financial community is waking up to the risk of climate change, and the opportunities arising from doing something about it. But a smarter regulatory framework is urgently needed. Nick Robins of Henderson Global Investors asks whether political and business leaders can rise to the challenge.

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Concerns about corporate power and responsibility are as old as the corporation itself. In this account of the East India Company, the world's first transnational corporation, Nick Robins argues that an unholy alliance between British government, military and commerce held India in slavery, reversed the flow of trade and cultural influence forever between the East and West and then sunk almost without trace under the weight of colonial guilt.