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October 3, 2024  |  JUST Capital

Driving Impact: Reflections on JUST Capital’s Summit on Workforce Innovation and Well-Being

Two weeks ago marked significant milestones for JUST Capital: we hosted a week-long Workforce Innovation and Well-being Summit for executives driving vital initiatives at some of America’s largest companies. Here is what happened.

September 13, 2024  |  JUST Capital

The JUST Report: CEO Confidence and Stakeholder Value Creation Go Hand In Hand

A major survey on Global CEO Confidence released by EY last week provides some fascinating insights into the way corporate leaders around the world view the competitive and economic landscape right now. 

September 6, 2024  |  JUST Capital

The JUST Report: Is Warren Buffett a Stakeholder Capitalist?

Analysis released by Bain this week, which notes that his portfolio companies are predominantly in the top half of a global universe of 1,300 companies measured on employee, community and customer performance criteria, with one-third in the top quartile. I

August 23, 2024  |  JUST Capital

The JUST Report: Five Years On, BRT’s Restatement Matters More Than Ever

Hardened by a cycle of embrace and backlash that continues to evolve, the stakeholder approach – in which the overarching goal is doing right by workers, communities, customers, suppliers, the planet and, yes, shareholders too – offers a clear blueprint for action which benefits everyone. 

August 9, 2024  |  JUST Capital

The JUST Report: Should America Be Run Like JPMorgan?

on Post Op-Ed this week, JPMorgan Chase Chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon laid bare the challenges facing the country but also offered a persuasive leadership vision for meeting them. If the way Dimon has built JPMC is anything to go by, it could be a powerful template for a more just society.

August 2, 2024  |  JUST Capital

The JUST Report: Will Gen Z Become The Engine of a Just Economy?

Recent research from Sift, the AI-based fraud prevention platform, has revealed what it calls a “surprising generational divide”. It seems that Gen Zers – those born between 1997 and 2012 – express a significantly higher willingness to engage in online payment fraud compared to other generations Why?

July 26, 2024  |  JUST Capital

The JUST Report: Living Wage Analysis Spotlights A Key Election Issue

One thing we know from our polling is that Republicans and Democrats agree that companies paying workers fairly and offering a living wage – meaning, enough to afford basic necessities at the local level – is essential to just business performance. 

July 19, 2024  |  JUST Capital

The JUST Report: Latest Returns Data Make Powerful Case For Just Investing

This week, we saw some powerful numbers that support the investment case for just business leadership. 

July 12, 2024  |  JUST Capital

The JUST Report: It’s Time For A Real Debate On The Future Of American Capitalism

“America’s political class was in the final stages of self-righteous detachment from the economic and social conditions of the nation it ruled.” So writes Oren Cass, Chief Economist at American Compass, in a NYT op-ed this week.

July 5, 2024  |  JUST Capital

The JUST Report: A Mid-Year Check on The Corporate Stakeholder Landscape

Americans’ chief priorities remain firmly centered on pay, jobs, and economic security. The debates and discussions around corporations’ role in society continue, but have become markedly less heated and divisive, and more private, measured and–dare I say–meaningful

June 28, 2024  |  JUST Capital

The JUST Report: Climate Risks Create Big Opportunities for Corporate Leadership

According to researchers, “under current climate conditions, lost labor productivity due to heat in the U.S. could reach $100 billion a year [and] that loss could reach $200 billion by 2030 and $500 billion by 2050.”  

June 21, 2024  |  JUST Capital

The JUST Report: The Big Question Facing Social Media

This week’s call by the U.S. Surgeon General for tobacco-style warning labels on social media products is the latest chapter in one of the defining corporate justness narratives of our time: the impact of social media on the mental health of children and teens. 

June 14, 2024  |  JUST Capital

The JUST Report: “Corporations have but one value: Shareholder value. That’s all.”

June can be a tricky month for corporate leaders. Between Pride, Juneteenth and Father’s Day, there’s a lot for companies to stake out a position on, support, or – in an era of backlash – potentially stay silent on.

May 24, 2024  |  JUST Capital

The JUST Report: Corporate Reputations Are Sliding…Here’s How To Respond

According to the annual Axios Harris Poll 100 Corporate Reputation Survey, there has been “a systemic loss in corporate reputation” over the past year.

May 23, 2024  |  JUST Capital

How Will Predictive AI Reshape Business? Our Conversation with Igor Tulchinsky

We sat down with the Founder, Chairman, and CEO of WorldQuant to discuss the benefits and dangers of predictive AI for America’s business leaders and workers.

May 17, 2024  |  JUST Capital

The JUST Report: How Can AI Benefit Workers?

We often dwell on the possible negative societal impacts of AI when we contemplate its future – instinctive fear of the unknown perhaps – but there are also some clear and very immediate positive applications. 

May 10, 2024  |  JUST Capital

The JUST Report: Which Companies Do Best For Working Mothers?

Many companies are also doing more to explicitly accelerate progress for women within their workplaces – here are the leaders.

May 3, 2024  |  JUST Capital

The JUST Report: Jamie Dimon Lays Out the Business Case for DEI

Amidst all the backlash on ESG and DEI, it’s been interesting to track what’s actually going on behind the scenes at the corporations we track – and why.

April 26, 2024  |  JUST Capital

The JUST Report: The Returns are In – Stakeholder Leadership Pays

As of March 29, 2024, our flagship index – the JUST U.S. Large Cap Diversified Index (JULCD)  – has outperformed the Russell 1000 (Cap-Weighted) benchmark by 0.346% year-to-date and by 10.7% since inception.

April 19, 2024  |  JUST Capital

The JUST Report: Ten Corporations That Are Leading On Environmental Protection

Monday is the 54th annual Earth Day, so in honor of that I thought we’d highlight a few companies that are showing extraordinary leadership on environmental matters. 

April 12, 2024  |  JUST Capital

The JUST Report: Are Fortune’s 100 Best Places To Work Also JUST Employers?

Fortune published their 2024 100 Best Places to Work list recently. It’s highly regarded by major employers and obviously reflects a theme we know to be a top priority for the public, so we thought it’d be fun to compare and contrast against our own JUST Jobs Scorecard, which we released last week. 

April 5, 2024  |  JUST Capital

The JUST Report: A New Scorecard for Investing in the American Worker

Investing in human capital is one of the essential elements of business leadership today. But without a comprehensive set of metrics and a clear definition of what good actually looks like, it’s very difficult to know where to invest in order to improve.

April 4, 2024  |  JUST Capital

JUST Capital’s Quarterly Review of Stakeholder Performance – Q1 2024

As of March 29, 2024, our flagship index – the JUST U.S. Large Cap Diversified Index (JULCD) has out-performed the Russell 1000 (Cap-Weighted) benchmark by 0.35% year-to-date and by 10.7% since its inception.

March 29, 2024  |  JUST Capital

The JUST Report: Investing In American Workers At Every Stage Of Life

Helping workers prepare for their financial futures is a major JUST issue. And it’s not only a problem for older working Americans. Indeed many Gen X and Millennial adults in the workforce today worry about the costs associated with both caring for their parents as well as their children. 

March 22, 2024  |  JUST Capital

The JUST Report: Investors Must Get Up The Curve On AI Risks And Opportunities

In the early 2000s, I was fortunate enough to be involved in some of the initial groundbreaking work that brought climate risks forward to the global investor community as a matter of significant financial relevance. This feels similar, but even more urgent.

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