Sustainability Briefs
2019
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On Governance: How the Shift from Monocapitalism to Multicapitalism Creates Integral Value
February 20 | Bill Baue, Senior Director, Reporting 3.0 | Comments (1)Integrated reporting expands traditional thinking, with its predominant focus on financial capital (i.e., monocapitalist), by casting a wider net to assess how value is created across multiple capitals (i.e., multicapitalist).
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On Governance: Using Sustainability Metrics in Incentive Compensation Plans
February 15 | Arthur Kohn, General Counsel - ERISA, Compensation & Benefits, Citi | Comments (0)Recent developments concerning corporate sustainability suggest that compensation committees of public company boards of directors, as well as human resources executives, should consider the use of metrics developed to measure sustainability in incentive compensation plans.
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On Governance: How Integrated Reporting Helps Define and Measure Value
February 13 | Keith Ambachtsheer, Founder, KPA Advisory Services | Bill Baue, Senior Director, Reporting 3.0 | Comments (0)How do asset owners tell their multi-dimensional value-creation story in ways that go beyond simplistic price signals which might mask value destruction, particularly at the collective level? By adopting Integrated Reporting (or IR as it is commonly abbreviated), we believe.
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Partnering for Disaster Preparedness in Chile
February 12 | Lars Battle, Senior Editorial Coordinator, PYXERA Global | Comments (0)The term “natural disaster” is a misnomer. Natural ecosystems often require disturbances such as fires and floods to remain healthy. They have an inherent resilience to the occasional battering. Crises created by destructive natural events might be more aptly referred to as “social disasters,” because of the toll of life and economic damage left in their wake. Framing such events as social disasters places them in a different light, shifting the burden on all sectors of society to proactively ma
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The Conference Board Launches Expanded Benchmarking Project on Corporate Citizenship
February 07 | Alex Parkinson, Former Communications Institute Co-Leader, The Conference Board | Comments (0)The Conference Board has launched an expanded initiative to track and benchmark societal investments, and their resulting impact, extending the organization’s 75 years of leadership in corporate citizenship research.
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On Governance: Do You Know Who Your Shareholders Are?
February 07 | Eileen R. Cohen, Senior Counselor, H/Advisors Abernathy | Comments (0)In this heightened environment of activism, quantitative investing and shorting, understanding who owns your company and why and even more importantly which firms do not own the stock is information that company management and the board should have in their arsenal.
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On Governance: How do you Build Trust? One Marble at a Time
February 05 | Cindy Fornelli, Executive Director, Center for Audit Quality | Comments (0)There are massive institutions, entities, and laws designed to foster trust in the markets. One of those entities is the public company auditing profession itself.
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Sustainability Reporting Across Asia: Trends and Challenges
February 01 | Anke Schrader, Former Research Director, Asia, The Conference Board | Comments (0)The Conference Board recently released its annual study on the state of corporate sustainability disclosure around the world. The research assesses environmental and social disclosure practices of the 250 largest publicly traded companies domiciled in each of the 10 largest economies (by GDP at purchasing power parity) in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific. As we look to Asia, what are key trends in reporting practices across the region? Where do we see the biggest challenges ahead?
