The Corporate Response To COVID-19 And Inequality: A Big Data Analysis

by dennis | Sep 23, 2020 | Articles 2020, News & Analysis

Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. 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...

Investors Need A Purpose Too: The Newton Investment Management Purpose Statement

by dennis | Sep 17, 2020 | Articles 2020, News & Analysis

Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. “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...

Looking Back and Looking Forward: A Scientometric Analysis of the Evolution of Corporate Sustainability Research over 47 Years

by dennis | Sep 15, 2020 | Articles 2020, News & Analysis

Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. This study systematically reviews the evolutionary trajectory of corporate sustainability research spanning from 1973 to 2019. Through a scientometric...

To Achieve Purpose, Boards Must Embrace Integrated Reporting

by dennis | Sep 14, 2020 | Articles 2020, News & Analysis

Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. 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...

Quantify Your Company’s Impact on People

by dennis | Sep 8, 2020 | Articles 2020, News & Analysis

Robert G. EcclesauthorFollow SustainabilityTenured Harvard Business School professor, now at Oxford University. 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,...