Fronesys, the advisory company focused on embedding sustainability metrics into strategic decision-making, today announced its partnership with Trucost, the company with the world’s largest data set on corporate environmental impacts. As a result of the...
Companies don't report their negative social impacts, according to research by the GRI. Often, they also often don't link their impact on society to wider global goals or recognised concepts like human rights, and don't set and track progress against...
Nicholas Stern, author of the Stern Review, says his views on climate change have intensified over the five years since the publication of his impactful study. In an interview with Technology Review, Stern lays out some key thoughts that every...
The News Corp disaster has many victims already (and the body count is only mounting) but so far none of them are non-executive directors. Lucy Marcus raises a really important issue about non-execs in a blog on Harvard Business Review's website: "News...
Today's corporate reporting model looks broken. It is dominated by a compliance mindset, particularly in America, with an inordinate focus on technical things, not strategy. It is so separated from internal reporting that boards are unable to engage with...
Mandatory CSR has all sorts of INTENDED consequences, say Ioannou and Serafiem, professors at London Business School and Harvard, respectively. Using data for 58 countries, they show that after the adoption of mandatory sustainability reporting laws and...