…Although this documented growth might be partly due to increased reporting—a topic I’ve written about recently—the Japanese government, businesses, and investors alike have launched or participated in a series of initiatives in recent…
…statement is “While each of our individual companies serves its own corporate purpose, we share a fundamental commitment to all of our stakeholders.” This statement is an update to the BRT’s much longer 1997 “Statement on Corporate…
…Without strong support from the investment community, the corporate community cannot make the contributions necessary to achieve the 2030 goals. These challenges are surprisingly manageable. The key lies in leveraging the work…
…the question of what those circumstances are. In a seminal article “Corporate Sustainability: First Evidence of Materiality” Mozaffar N. Khan, George Serafeim, and Aaron Yoon showed that companies performing well on the material…
…because the PE firm has control and takes an active approach to corporate governance, it can ensure that ESG integration takes place. Most public company boards are unaware of or are indifferent to ESG integration. By definition, the…
…companies and investors to strengthen and align climate change reporting to the investment community through a common framework. And if you haven’t heard of it, then it’s worth reading on. The Climate Statement was launched in 2014…
…corporations is a central point of our new paper, Materiality in Corporate Governance: The Statement of Significant Audiences and Materiality. Aiming to improve corporations’ public disclosures, we argue that the board should publish…
…in the form of “integrated reports” that help companies disclose corporate sustainability efforts just as they do financial data. Are these efforts yielding results? We wanted to determine the extent to which corporate and investor…
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