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The UN Global Goals Yearbook 2020: A Rorschach Reader
The UN Global Goals Yearbook 2020:
A Rorschach Reader
The United Nations, with support from K+S and the macondo foundation, has recently published the latest edition of its annual Global Goals Yearbook with the theme being “Planet...
Enacting Purpose within the Modern Corporation
Enacting Purpose within the
Modern Corporation
The Enacting Purpose Initiative (EPI) is a multi-institution partnership between the University of Oxford; the University of California, Berkeley; BrightHouse (a BCG company);...
Running On Purpose: A Conversation With Charlie Moore
Running On Purpose: A Conversation
With Charlie Moore
Last Thursday I had a conversation with my good friend Charles (Charlie) H. Moore, Jr. Charlie is now 91 and has pancreatic cancer but remains in good spirits and is as sharp as...
Putting Purpose Into Practice: The Enacting Purpose Initiative
Putting Purpose Into Practice: The
Enacting Purpose Initiative
Yesterday I suggested in an open letter that a good first step for the 181 companies whose CEO signed the Business Roundtable’s August 19, 2019 “Statement of the Purpose of a...
Social-Impact Efforts That Create Real Value
Social-Impact Efforts That
Create Real Value
Companies don’t win over investors just by issuing sustainability reports and engaging in other standard ESG practices. What they need to do, says Harvard Business School’s...
An Open Letter To The Business Roundtable 181
An Open Letter To The
Business Roundtable 181
Dear Mr./Ms. CEO, I hope you don’t mind me writing, especially given my temerity in wanting to offer you a small piece of advice: You should have your board of directors write...
Business Fights Poverty: The Importance Of Corporate Purpose In Fighting Inequality
Business Fights Poverty: The Importance Of Corporate
Purpose In Fighting Inequality
On July 13-17 Business Fights Poverty hosted a free online conference called “Rebuild Better: Building an Equitable and Resilient Future.” It was an excellent event with an...
Do Signatories To The Principles For Responsible Investment Practice What They Preach?
Do Signatories To The Principles For Responsible
Investment Practice What They Preach?
While pockets of ideologically-driven ignorance remain regarding sustainable investing, such as the U.S. Department of Labor, mainstream investor investors now recognize the...
The World Benchmarking Alliance’s Social Indicators: An Opportunity To Provide Feedback
The World Benchmarking Alliance’s Social Indicators:
An Opportunity To Provide Feedback
The purpose of this post is to ask for your help on an important project. The World Benchmarking Alliance (WBA) is soliciting input on their “Social transformation Draft...
Purpose With Meaning: A Practical Way Forward
Purpose With Meaning: A
Practical Way Forward
When leading money managers embrace the need for corporations to be socially responsible and the Business Roundtable (BRT) declares that the purpose of a corporation is “to...
The Need For Science-Based, System-Level Engagement And Stewardship
The Need For Science-Based, System-Level
Engagement And Stewardship
What do climate change, deforestation, biodiversity loss, ecosystem degradation, population growth, eating habits, and communicable diseases have in common? They are all related...
3 Ways to Put Your Corporate Purpose into Action
3 Ways to Put Your Corporate
Purpose into Action
When leading money managers embrace the need for corporations to be socially responsible and the Business Roundtable (BRT) declares that the purpose of a corporation is “to...
Dynamic Materiality In The Time Of COVID-19
Dynamic Materiality In The
Time of COVID-19
Three months ago, in what seems like another age, I wrote about the concept of dynamic materiality. It was developed by Thomas Kuh, Andre Shepley, Greg Bala, and Michael Flowers...
The Time Has Come For Tax Reporting Transparency—Thank You Global Reporting Initiative!
The Time Has Come For Tax Reporting Transparency—
Thank You Global Reporting Initiative!
How much taxes companies pay and the transparency of tax reporting have been contentious issues for decades. Governments around the world have failed to create standards for...
How Material is a Material Issue? Stock Returns and the Financial Relevance and Financial Intensity of ESG Materiality
How Material is a Material Issue? Stock Returns and the Financial
Relevance and Financial Intensity of ESG Materiality
This paper investigates the role of the intensity and relevance of ESG materiality in equity returns. Adopting the classifications of materiality provided by the Sustainability...
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