Research, Reports & Publications

Mastercard: What Financial Health Looks Like Right Now

Mastercard

Research, Reports & Publications

Spring Cleaning Your Budget: A Fresh Start for Your Finances

Aflac Incorporated

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

VIDEO | Schneider Electric's 6 Environmental-Performance Priorities

By August 2, 2017, we will have used more from nature than our planet can renew in the whole year. Discover how Schneider Electric is determined to play a vital role in driving climate-compatible global economic growth. Learn more from Xavier Houot about Schneider’s efforts to reduce carbon emissions, discover our green supply chain, Green Premium ecolabel, use of waste as worth, and circular economy strategy.

Sustainable Development Goals

How Can We Get the ‘Buy-In’ Required from Investors to Make the SDGs Work?

Investors are eager to contribute to achieving the SDGs, but don’t yet have sufficient information and tools to make smart investments in a more sustainable future. There is a need for standardized and comparable data, as well as more meaningful dialogue between business, investors & stock exchanges. GRI is ramping up engagement between these groups.

Events, Media & Communications

Schneider Electric VIDEO | Business-Driven Sustainability

Research, Reports & Publications

Marathon Oil Corporation Releases 2016 Living Our Values Corporate Sustainability Report

Marathon Oil Corporation (NYSE: MRO) today published its 2016 Living Our Values Corporate Sustainability Report. The report is available in a digital format, with the capability to create customizable pdfs of individual sections or the entire report, and as a downloadable summary brochure.

Environment

Bringing Decision Science to Sustainability

Domtar’s pulp mills are, in essence, biorefineries designed to separate and extract the natural chemical building blocks of wood. Cellulose is used to make paper, but the other biochemicals from wood are also valuable as feedstocks for products ranging from fuels to flavors and fragrances.

Research, Reports & Publications

The State of Sustainable Business in 2017: Results from the Ninth Annual BSR/GlobeScan Survey

The results of this year's BSR/GlobeScan State of Sustainable Business Survey remind us of the need for business to redefine the sustainability agenda and lead in today's dynamic environment.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Is Year-Round Employee Giving Right for You?

Sustainable Development Goals

A Corporate Guide to Putting the UN Sustainable Development Goals to Work

Download Benevity's eBook, "A Corporate Guide to Putting the UN Sustainable Development Goals to Work" to discover 7 strategies to creating a successful SDG program.

Sustainable Development Goals

Four Key Steps to Optimizing Data for Enterprise Asset Management

Many water leaders face a conundrum – they know massive system investments are needed, but have a steep hill to climb to gain necessary approvals and rate recovery for such investments. Stand-alone, multimillion dollar technology programs often take a back seat to repairing and replacing aging distribution system assets.

Research, Reports & Publications

Far Beyond the Quarterly Call: Research Refutes "Short-Termism"

In a paper published earlier this month in the Spring 2017 Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, Tim Youmans, Research Director, Strategic Investor Initiative, CECP, and Brian Tomlinson, Senior Research Advisor, Strategic Investor Initiative, CECP, detail how the existing structure of corporate shareholder communications encourages “short-termism,” or the narrow focus on immediate profit at the expense of long-term security. The paper summarizes the substantial evidence that corporate management, boards, and investors are concerned about the failure of quarterly earnings framework to adequately address the importance of long-term value creation.

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