Ethical Leadership and Governance

Research examines how discussing nonmaterial and material ESG factors in companies’ earnings calls influences their overall worth.

Consumers are increasingly demanding businesses become more accountable, but often, the path to building a sustainable business is far from convenient.

ESG efforts are essential for reducing harm, but it is not the same as striving for a net positive impact.

Revenue growth is good. Profitable growth is better. Profitable growth that advances ESG priorities is best. Here’s how outperformers who actively choose growth deliver the growth trifecta.

U.S. employers are lagging at embedding sustainability into their organizations, new research shows.

Exponential growth has been key to technology’s progress. The same is needed for climate action.

With reporting requirements ramping up, businesses are under more pressure than ever to get to grips with sustainability. But who should take charge? 

While ESG gets buffeted by the winds of political theater, the work of sustainability continues.

Here’s how financial institutions can rebalance a portfolio for net-zero commitments while managing the impact on people, the planet, and profits.

Boards can drive the ESG agenda effectively by identifying what is material to their organisation and being willing to adapt along the way.

ESG is at a critical inflection point due to 2022's fast-evolving regulatory landscape, the momentous shift toward remote and hybrid work and the maturing of sustainable finance.

While there are many metrics companies share in their sustainability marketing pushes, it’s not always clear what’s really being measured, or how those metrics compare to well, anything.

Michiel Verhoeven, managing director at SAP UKI, explores who needs to take responsibility for sustainability initiatives in the business

Anti-ESG sentiment led to “greenhushing” in 2023, even as the planet experienced its hottest year ever. What’s next?

Capital-intensive, sustainable businesses offer growth on a scale achieved by technology juggernauts of recent decades. But they face a different set of challenges. Here’s how they can overcome them.

Successfully adopting ESG programs in the company requires a well-defined strategy and holistic company involvement.

The vast need for climate technology will create opportunity. These five technology areas could offer $2 trillion of investment potential by 2025.

As more companies amp up their reliance on cloud computing, they may overlook environmental impacts. Here's why that's a bad idea.

5 key areas CIOs can utilize to drive the sustainability of technology

The number of companies appointing a chief sustainability officer has grown significantly over the last few years. Due to the novelty of the role, the CSO’s actual responsibilities and tasks are still vague. It’s critical for executives and boards to ensure that the CSO’s role is balanced among all three elements of ESG. The authors present a CSO’s eight distinct tasks and a visual framework to ensure that each one gets the level of effort it needs.

An integrated sustainable technology strategy could hold the key,

It’s clear that technology can enhance ESG, but ESG can also enhance technology, and, in turn, businesses and the lives of customers and employees.

A new framework offers a broader, more effective approach to assessing both the internal and external aspects of a company’s social and sustainability performance.

Like digital transformation, sustainability is embedded into all parts of an organisation. To stay relevant, the board needs to integrate sustainability into the company’s overall strategy.

While ESG is likely to evolve both in substance and name in the coming years, its underlying impulse is here to say. Here’s how companies can take a more systematic and rewarding approach to ESG.