Corporate Social Responsibility

Companies serious about sustainability need to make a business case for investing in lobbying to advance climate policy.

Using values to guide decisions can benefit customers and improve operations and the bottom line.

Sharing values with customers builds loyalty and can be a valuable differentiator in competitive markets.

A research-based framework can help companies select philanthropic projects that align with their business strategies.

Experts weigh the risks and rewards companies face in taking a public stance on divisive social or political issues.

Business leaders should see themselves as change agents with a key role in fostering diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Formerly incarcerated people represent an underutilized talent pool that can help employers address workforce shortages.

Lessons from the golden age of Black business can teach today’s leaders how to help Black entrepreneurs prosper.

While ESG gets buffeted by the winds of political theater, the work of sustainability continues.

Research shows that a company’s confessions to past wrongs enhances people’s perception of its corporate responsibility.

Transparency about how minerals are sourced advances environmental justice and climate protection.

The lack of transparency in corporate philanthropy doesn’t serve companies or their stakeholders.

In an era of complex ethics algorithms and DEI/CSP/ESG checklists, simpler is better.

Once leaders address their company’s historical transgressions, they can work to create a more positive legacy.

Companies must be prepared to respond strategically to state and federal policies that conflict with stakeholder values.

Strategy experts weigh whether companies should expect monetary returns from diversity, equity, and inclusion investments.

A new mechanism — parity pills — aims to address pay inequities between high-level execs and rank-and-file workers.

Engaging on political policy requires courage when it goes against industry dogma.

The authors present a new framework for assessing the effects of a company’s social and environmental practices.

Two experts explain how and why financial services companies should develop purpose-led strategies.