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…stakeholders will suddenly have a much clearer view of a company’s sustainability performance—just as they do its financial performance. While most companies today issue sustainability reports, these are divorced from their financial…
…Board (CDSB), the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), and the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB), guide the overwhelming majority of ESG disclosure and the International integrated Reporting Council (IIRC) provides…
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 founded by Mark Tulay. I co-chaired this effort with Hiro…
…environmental, social, and governance issues developed by the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB). These scores were based on the SASB issues relevant to each topic and weighted based on their relevance to each issue.
“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 objectives, and helps foster a healthy and vibrant world for…
…companies get on this list, and many of them are self-labeled as “sustainability report” or “summary report.” Common reasons given by US companies as to why they don’t want to practice integrated reporting are that investors don’t care…
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 innovation in the data used to evaluate which businesses are…
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 under Pressure.” The opening quote from UN Secretary-General…
The Enacting Purpose Initiative (EPI) is a multi-institution partnership between the University of Oxford; the University of California, Berkeley; BrightHouse (a BCG company); the British Academy; Federated Hermes EOS; and Wachtell,…
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 ever. I have known him for 17 years and wanted the benefit of…
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 Corporation” to have their board of directors publish a…
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 and publish a company-specific, stakeholder-inclusive…
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