All stories by Nick Masercola

In this Chart of the Week, we take a look at our charitable giving data to analyze whether there are meaningful trends around the ROE of Russell 1000 companies.

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.

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

Companies that have invested in their workforces have been more successful than those that haven’t for the duration of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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.

This week, we look at Morningstar’s most recent analysis Jackie Cook, diving into the C-suite Gender Pay Gap.

Of all the changes that COVID-19 has brought, the rapid increase in work from home (WFH) policies have been among the most significant for businesses today. How will this continue to change the modern workplace? We partner with AARP to take a look.

We partnered with AARP to explore the need for a broader dependent care infrastructure for U.S. workers to build community, increase employee engagement, and better engage stakeholders more broadly.

In a collaboration with AARP, we take a look at how workers’ paid sick leave policies have changed in response to COVID-19, and what actions business leaders can take to help moving forward. 

With the societal and legal move towards decarbonization, utilities that emit a comparatively high amount of carbon are challenged by stranded assets and/or potentially high costs to upgrade equipment.

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

We need a living wage for all Americans. And there is a return on that investment.

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.

The change in administration opens up a new frontier for stakeholder capitalism. The first 100 days will be critical. 

Business and politics collided this past week – here is what the American people thought of it.

We take a look at our 2021 ranked companies that had controversies across all of our various stakeholders to show that, unsurprisingly, companies with fewer controversies slightly outperform those with more.

Here are five of our most viewed ESG-focused features from 2020.

As we kick off the new year, we revisit our most popular features from 2020.

Explore what steps companies in the Russell 1000 have taken to support this contract workers, and which companies are leading the way.

At the end of August 2020, we fielded a voluntary demographic survey of our workforce, which included questions about age, gender identity, sexual orientation, race and ethnicity, disability, and veteran status. Now we’re unpacking the results.