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The Purpose Of The IBC/WEF Stakeholder Capitalism Metrics Initiative: A Conversation With Brian Moynihan
The Purpose Of The IBC/WEF Stakeholder Capitalism Metrics
Initiative: A Conversation With Brian Moynihan
On September 20, 2020, the World Economic Forum (WEF) published a report of the CEOs of 120 companies in its international Business Council (IBC) titled “Measuring Stakeholder...
The Financial System Needs To Better Manage Systemic Social Risks Like COVID-19 And Income Inequality: Here Is A Roadmap For Doing So
The Financial System Needs To Better Manage Systemic Social Risks Like COVID-19 And Income
Inequality: Here Is A Roadmap For Doing So
The Biden Administration is wasting no time in building up its economic team. Close watchers of his moves should be encouraged by one pick: Heather Boushey as a member of his...
The Future of ESG Is … Accounting?
The Future of ESG Is …
Accounting?
Companies, investors and consumers alike are frustrated by a lake of standardized accounting for corporate ESG performance. This might be about to change thanks to a...
Celebrating the IIRC’s 10th Anniversary
Celebrating the IIRC's
10th Anniversary
Just a few days before celebrating its 10th Anniversary, the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC) announced that it would be merging with the Sustainablity...
EQT: Private Equity with a Purpose
EQT: Private Equity
with a Purpose
The private equity (PE) industry has grown enormously over the past 20 years, from roughly $650 billion in assets under management (AUM) in 2000 to almost $5 trillion in...
Investors need to get behind materiality
Investors Need to Get
Behind Materiality
The lines between sustainable investing and investing in general are blurring and will soon disappear. Yet there remains an important barrier to fully integrating a company’s...
The need for standards in non-financial reporting: an interview with Robert Eccles
The need for standards in non-financial reporting:
an interview with Robert Eccles
When we think of reporting, we often think exclusively of financial information. Yet, a quiet revolution has been taking place in the industry, and it’s been brewing for some...
Crunch Time: Global Standard Setters Set The Scene For Comprehensive Corporate Reporting
Crunch Time: Global Standard Setters Set The Scene
For Comprehensive Corporate Reporting
In March of this year I wrote about how to establish a global set of standards for companies to report on their environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance—or...
Serious about sustainability
Serious About
Sustainability
Chris Armstrong, Berenberg Stock and ESG Strategist: Robert, thank you very much for joining me. From our point of view as an investment bank, I think the pick-up in interest in...
Companies And Investors Must Fight Harder To Win The Battle Against COVID-19 And Inequality
Serious About
Sustainability
On September 22, 2020 the report “COVID-19 and Inequality: A Test of Corporate Purpose” by KKS Advisors and the Test of Corporate Purpose (TCP) initiative was published. TCP was...
The Corporate Response To COVID-19 And Inequality: A Big Data Analysis
The Corporate Response To COVID-19 And
Inequality: A Big Data Analysis
A press release on September 22, 2020 announced the publication of “COVID-19 and Inequality: A Test of Corporate Purpose” by KKS Advisors and the Test of Corporate Purpose (TCP)...
Investors Need A Purpose Too: The Newton Investment Management Purpose Statement
Investors Need A Purpose Too: The Newton Investment
Management Purpose Statement
“Our purpose at Newton is—and has been since our founding in 1978—to improve people’s lives through active, thematic and engaged investment which allows our clients to meet their...
Looking Back and Looking Forward: A Scientometric Analysis of the Evolution of Corporate Sustainability Research over 47 Years
Looking Back and Looking Forward: A Scientometric Analysis of the Evolution
of Corporate Sustainability Research over 47 Years
This study systematically reviews the evolutionary trajectory of corporate sustainability research spanning from 1973 to 2019. Through a scientometric analysis of 26,111 Web of...
To Achieve Purpose, Boards Must Embrace Integrated Reporting
To Achieve Purpose, Boards Must Embrace
Integrated Reporting
Is integrated reporting the board’s top priority? Of course not. Purpose is. But once purpose has been defined, integrated reporting is the way the company ensures it is being...
Quantify Your Company’s Impact on People
Quantify Your Company’s
Impact on People
Much attention has been paid to measuring companies’ impact on the environment. But when it comes to impacts on people, there has been far less scrutiny, standardization, and...
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