All stories by JUST Capital

With support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, we’re identifying the companies that are taking action and setting the bar for supporting their workers, the families they support, and the communities in which they operate.

JUST Capital filed a public comment endorsing a set of federally mandated ESG standards on climate, human capital, and DEI metrics.

We take a look at how America’s largest companies are developing new talent pipelines across underserved communities of color.

JUST’s Alison Omens shares why companies that continue to prioritize the health of workers, families, and communities will stand out in a post-pandemic economy.

Why pay equity is critical to advancing racial equity, which companies are taking the lead, and why talk of commitment is not enough.

An in-depth accounting of the state of racial equity disclosure from the 100 largest U.S. employers – assessing how corporate America is taking concrete action to advance racial equity today.

In February 2021, JUST Capital and The Harris Poll conducted eight virtual focus groups – exploring how Americans believe companies should treat their workers, customers, shareholders, communities, and the environment.

This week we look a report published by Morningstar which showcases the continued record-setting growth of sustainable asset flows. 

“How can the stakeholder model lend American corporations a competitive advantage on the world stage?” The more I ponder this, the more I realize it is in fact a defining proposition.

While companies are highly likely to disclose baseline DEI commitments, they are much less likely to report on what actions they’re taking to advance racial equity.

Listen in on our conversation with Andrew Ross Sorkin on our latest initiative to advance racial equity in corporate America, and why this issue will be a core focus this proxy season.

“The problems that are tearing at the fabric of American society require all of us – government, business and civic society – to work together with a common purpose.”

CEOs of some of America’s largest corporations have begun to voice their opposition to what they say is restrictive legislation that makes it harder for Americans to vote.

JUST and the Head of CECP will talk with Nick about how he led a cultural transformation to engage employees, enhance diversity, and increase transparency around key human capital issues.

Pay equity mattered a lot to the public before the pandemic, and it matters even more now.

This week, Emmanuel Faber, one of the world’s foremost proponents of stakeholder capitalism, lost his job as CEO and chairman of Danone. The easy reaction would be to see this as a blow for proponents of the stakeholder cause. That would be a mistake.

We look at why, as PwC’s US chair Tim Ryan put it, now is an ideal time for corporate leaders to disclose EEO-1 Report data to accompany their recent commitments to racial equity.

CEOs are a notoriously optimistic bunch. But even so, their views contrast sharply with those of their workers, who have a decidedly different take on the situation.

Yesterday, acting SEC Chair Allison Herren Lee – who at the beginning of the week had said at a conference that voluntary ESG disclosure wasn’t cutting it – announced the creation of a Climate and ESG Task Force in the Enforcement division

Walmart has seen both sides of the stakeholder vs shareholder debate over the last seven days, losing $25 billion off its market cap after a mixed earnings call.

We are celebrating the achievements of some of the most important Black women leaders in business, including Rosalind Brewer and Thasunda Duckett, who will be the only two Black women CEOs of Fortune 500 companies.

If we’re looking at what Americans want, and what our biggest corporations can provide them, the bar has to be set higher.

investors are becoming sophisticated enough to tell the difference between greenwashing and value creation…and this Exxon case proves it.

We wrote in the opener of our 2020 Year In Review, released yesterday, that “Stakeholder capitalism has gone beyond being merely an idea.” Boy did this week prove that out.

2020 was a year that exposed a simple truth – that society’s shift to stakeholder capitalism is now an urgent necessity.