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Shifts in how businesses create value and how it flows to households highlight the changing role of the corporation.

Content: Article | Authors: Clarisse Magnin-Mallez, Michael Birshan, Sean Brown | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subjects: Economics, Social Responsibility (ESG)

A useful framing, we find, is to compare the breadth of ESG with the uniqueness of purpose. ESG encompasses society’s wide range of expectations about the role of business. There are a multitude of ESG options, requirements, and variations—from community service to inclusivity, transparency in reporting, and waste management, to name just a few. Purpose, on the other hand, helps your firm prioritize from among … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Authors: Bruce Simpson, Jinchen Zou, Matt Stone, Olivia Loadwick, Robin Nuttall, Sebastian Leape | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subject: Social Responsibility (ESG)

Every enterprise is finding that its space for business as usual is increasingly constrained by the planet’s environmental limits, by broader social and economic needs, and by rising stakeholder demands. Consequently, in addition to addressing all the traditional factors defining competition, company strategies now need to explicitly confront the dynamic socio-environmental externalities of the business. From their impacts on climate to the communities where they … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: David Young, Marine Gerard, Martin Reeves | Source: Boston Consulting Group (BCG) | Subject: Social Responsibility (ESG)

We have argued that corporations should Optimize for Both Social and Business Value, using their core businesses to deliver the financial returns expected by their owners and, in tandem, to help society meet its most significant challenges. To do so, we suggest that leaders reimagine corporate strategy by creating new modes of differentiation, embedding societal value into products and services, reimagining business models for sustainability, … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: David Young, Martin Reeves | Source: Boston Consulting Group (BCG) | Subjects: Business Model, Social Responsibility (ESG), Strategy

The Fourth Industrial Revolution changes the ‘who’, ‘whom’ and ‘what’ of corporate responsibility.

Content: Article | Author: N. Craig Smith | Source: INSEAD Knowledge | Subjects: IT / Technology / E-Business, Social Responsibility (ESG)

Just as with other business priorities, stakeholder capitalism is a matter of execution. Here are five steps to get it right.

Content: Article | Authors: Robin Nuttall, Vivian Hunt, Yuito Yamada | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subject: Social Responsibility (ESG)

BCG identifies six dimensions of environmental and societal impact, all with implications for employees and for external stakeholders, including investors, customers, suppliers, and society.

Content: Article | Authors: David Young, Marine Gerard | Source: Boston Consulting Group (BCG) | Subjects: Business Model, Social Responsibility (ESG)

Every business takes from the environment. We get access to resources, roads, infrastructure, and education. So it’s only right that we have a mind-set that we give back, we replenish as well as consume. And we use our voice to try to make a difference.

Content: Quotation | Author: Jeremy Darroch | Source: strategy+business | Subjects: Capitalism, Economics, Social Responsibility (ESG)

How can companies assess which business model changes will enable the company to become genuinely more resilient and sustainable over time? We believe our insights from researching Sustainable Business Model Innovation (SBM-I) can help answer that question. Crossing all industries and geographies, our research analyzed more than 100 business models through which companies delivered both business value and environmental and societal benefits. We tested each … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: David Young, Marine Gerard | Source: Boston Consulting Group (BCG) | Subjects: Business Model, Social Responsibility (ESG)

ESG measurement is an increasingly popular way of holding companies accountable when it comes to sustainability efforts, and of giving companies an incentive to improve them. But measurement, no matter how sophisticated, is much better at capturing easily quantifiable inputs than complex and messy outcomes and impacts. Companies need to do everything they can to understand those outcomes and impacts — and that requires doing … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Jennifer Howard-Grenville | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subject: Social Responsibility (ESG)

Consumers and society at large are expecting more from business. Embracing these responsibilities can help shareholders, too.

Content: Article | Authors: Bruce Simpson, Vivian Hunt, Yuito Yamada | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subject: Social Responsibility (ESG)

Companies have always caused “externalities” — benefits for society for which they are not fully compensated and costs on society which they don’t have to fully pay for. A major change in global business in recent years is that these externalities are becoming increasingly rare — what was once extraneous to a business is increasingly affecting corporate revenues, costs, and risk profiles. This is a … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: George Serafeim, Ronald Cohen | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Economics, Social Responsibility (ESG)

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 ‘getting it right’ than we see in the environmental field. The current state-of-the-art involves just scanning for words in corporate-issued documents. This is inadequate. Instead, we should … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Caroline Rees, Robert G. Eccles | Source: Harvard Business Review | Subjects: Human Resources, Social Responsibility (ESG)

There are many trade-offs that company managers struggle to make, in which neither a shareholder nor a stakeholder approach offers a clear path forward. This is especially true when it comes to issues affecting people who aren’t immediately involved with the company. These so-called externalities—perhaps most prominently, a company’s carbon emissions affecting parties that otherwise have no direct contact with the company—can be extremely challenging … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Authors: Marc H. Goedhart, Tim Koller | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subjects: Management, Social Responsibility (ESG)

We need in business and politics administrators who are able not only to handle their specialized problems well, but also to see things in wide relations and do their part in maintaining society’s stability and equilibrium.

Content: Quotation | Author: Wallace Donham | Source: Quartz | Subject: Social Responsibility (ESG)

Getting your environmental, social, and governance (ESG) proposition right links to higher value creation. Here’s why.

Content: Article | Authors: Robin Nuttall, Tim Koller, Witold Henisz | Source: McKinsey Quarterly | Subject: Social Responsibility (ESG)

The problem is that business ethics and corporate social responsibility are subjects used as window dressing in the marketing of the business school, and as a fig leaf to cover the conscience of B-school deans – as if talking about ethics and responsibility were the same as doing something about it. They almost never systematically address the simple idea that since current social and economic … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Author: Martin Parker | Source: The Guardian | Subjects: Ethics, MBA Related, Social Responsibility (ESG)

Professor emeritus Bruce Scott was a pioneer at the Harvard Business School, where he insisted that management training had to include the big picture, and helped craft the school’s now-mandatory MBA course, Business and Government in the International Economy (known colloquially as BGIE or “Biggie”) back in the 1970s.
 
Harvard Business School is the subject of journalist Duff McDonald’s new book, The Golden Passport, which examines … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Bruce Scott | Source: PBS | Subjects: Capitalism, Economics, MBA Related, Social Responsibility (ESG)

Corporate social responsibility has been a buzzword for a while. And it’s not hard to see how communities stand to benefit when firms are serious about CSR—be it by participating in a clean water campaign or having a large philanthropic presence.

But what about the firms themselves? How does doing good affect their bottom line? Here, Kellogg faculty share research and perspectives into how companies can … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Authors: Alexander Chernev, Dylan Minor, James Naughton, Megan Kashner, Shannon Schuyler, Sunil Chopra, Thomas Lys | Source: Kellogg Insight | Subject: Social Responsibility (ESG)

The common approach to corporate social responsibility is grounded in ethics, morality and norms. And there is no question that many CSR initiatives are good at balancing competing demands made by shareholders and other stakeholders. To do this, however, many supposedly responsible firms borrow resources and capital from the future, which can magnify the imbalance in the distribution of resources between the short and long … [ Read more ]

Content: Quotation | Authors: Mark DesJardine, Tima Bansal | Source: Ivey Business Journal | Subject: Social Responsibility (ESG)