COVID-19 Pandemic Resources & Support for the Environmental, Social, and Governance Community

TCB Resources

Research Reports / Essays / Blogs / Survey Results

• With the Coronavirus Underway, Here are Six Steps for Business Leaders to Consider (Feb 6) 
• Employee Volunteering When You Can’t Serve In Person (March 17) 
• Pragmatic Corporate Giving During COVID-19 (March 18)
• Leading and Supporting During the COVID-19 Pandemic (March 20) 
• 7 Key Areas for Board Attention during the COVID-19 Crisis (March 27) 
• Rapid Response: Corporate Citizenship and Philanthropy Stepping Up to the COVID-19 Challenge (April 9)
• Five Ways a Sustainability Strategy Provides Clarity in a Time of Crisis (April 16) 
• 5 Practical Things Directors Can Do During COVID-19 (April 21) 
• Executive and Director Compensation Reductions in the COVID-19 Era (May 1) 
• Charity: Food (May 7)
• Recovery's Long and Winding Road: Our Corporate Citizenship Journey Continues (May 19) 
• Corporate Governance Challenges in the COVID-19 Crisis: Findings from a Survey of US Public Companies (June 2)

Databases 

• Executive and Director Compensation Reductions in the COVID-19 Era (May 1)  
• ESG Center Member Stories: Responding to the Pandemic (May 26)

 Webcasts 

• Governance Watch: Covid-19: Tackling Key Governance & Legal Issues (April 9) 
• ESG Watch: Investor Expectations & Engagement During the Covid-19 Crisis (May 12) 
• Governance Watch: Reopen Ready: Managing Governance & Legal Risks in the New Normal(s) (May 18) 
• Global Compensation & Benefits Watch: Managing Compensation & Benefits Plans for Mobile and Global Employees During & Beyond COVID-19 (June 30) 

 Podcasts

• Coronavirus Outbreak: The CSR Response (February 18) 
• How Can Corporations Best Support Non-Profits During COVID-19? (March 31)   

External Resources

Environmental

• The Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (Harvard Chan C-CHANGE)
• GreenBiz COVID-19 Hub
• Scientific American COVID-19 Hub
• United Nations Sustainability Development Goals News Page
• World Resources Institute Resource Center

 Social 

• Americans for the Arts COVID-19 Resource and Response Center
• Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship: Corporate Citizenship Responses to COVID-19
• Independent Sector – Resources & Information Page
• Points of Light: Considerations for In-Person Corporate Volunteering During COVID-19: Guidance for Companies
• Stanford Social Innovation Review
• US Chamber of Commerce Foundation: Corporate Aid Tracker: COVID-19 Business in Action
• World Economic Forum – Strategic Intelligence COVID-19 Hub
• What Is the Role of Business in Tackling the Coronavirus? Local Action, Global Sharing (CSR Wire, Mar 13, 2020)
• For Some Companies in the Age of Coronavirus, Ethics pays (Compliance Week, Mar 17, 2020)

 Governance 

• Has Your Board Assessed the Impact of the Coronavirus Outbreak? (Corporate Board Member)
• Coronavirus as a new systemic risk: Implications for corporate governance and investor stewardship (International Corporate Governance Network, March 2020)
• Coronavirus & Virtual Annual Meetings (Cleary Gottlieb, March 26, 2020)
• Coronavirus/COVID-19: Director and Management Attendance at Shareholder Meetings (Hunton Andrews Kurth, March 2020)
• COVID-19’s Impact on the Workplace: A Test of the Board’s Resiliency (NACD: BoardTalk, March 20, 2020)
• COVID-19: Emerging Board Governance Priorities (NACD: BoardTalk, March 13, 2020)
• Executives Worldwide Slash Their Own Pay in Coronavirus Crunch (Bloomberg, ‎March‎ ‎12‎, ‎2020‎)‎
• Coronavirus Impact (Pearl Meyer, March 2020)