5 of America’s Largest Public Companies Leading the Way for Women in the Workplace
These companies check all the boxes when it comes to pay parity, policies that particularly benefit mothers, and women on their board.
What concrete actions should corporate leaders prioritize to ensure a movement toward greater racial equity in the workplace and beyond?
Chart of the Week: Climate Change Is Increasingly Driving Investment Policy
This week, we highlight how investment strategies are rapidly realigning to account for climate change.
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.
The JUST Report: These Are The Companies That Are Best For Women
Pay equity mattered a lot to the public before the pandemic, and it matters even more now.
With only one-fifth of America’s largest companies disclosing that they conducted a pay equity analysis, it’s clear that this issue must remain in focus for corporate America as we build back from COVID-19.
The JUST Report: Did Stakeholder Capitalism Get the Pink Slip?
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.
Why EEO-1 Disclosure Is a Way to Hold Companies Accountable for Racial Equity Commitments
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.
Chart of the Week: ESG ETF Costs Present an Opportunity for The Next Frontier of Indexing
This week’s chart from the Wall Street Journal explores the recent tidal wave of ESG funds and dives into the average expense ratios of U.S. equity ETFs.
Demographics disclosure is on the rise across corporate America, and so we looked at the data and discovered women are largely underrepresented compared to the working population, as are non-White and non-Asian workers.
The EEO-1 form has rapidly become the gold standard of disclosure, and the numbers and metrics within it reveal a picture of the state of gender and racial diversity at America’s largest companies
The Future of ESG is Customized, Personalized, and Values-Driven
More investors are recognizing that investing can serve a dual purpose – to both reach financial goals and to perpetuate core values by supporting companies doing right by all shareholders.
A Year Into the Pandemic, Hope in the C-Suite and Concern on the Frontlines
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.
Chart of the Week: Examining the Outperformance of Companies that Prioritize Ethical Leadership
Do companies that act ethically out perform their peers that lag behind?
Explore the perspectives of both employers and employees on how COVID-19 is continuing to shape the workplace one year into the pandemic.
The ESG Enforcers Come to Town
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
Synchrony’s DJ Casto tells us why the financial services company cut 40% of its office space square footage and is embracing a hybrid model of “hubs” and working from home for its 16,500 employees.
Companies That Prioritize Workforce Investment and Training Outperform Those That Don’t
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 Takes a Short-Term Hit to Deliver Long-Term Value
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.
Why Addressing the C-Suite Gender Pay Gap Presents an Opportunity for Growth
This week, we look at Morningstar’s most recent analysis Jackie Cook, diving into the C-suite Gender Pay Gap.
MIT Sloan professor Zeynep Ton explains why assessing your workforce’s financial wellness is a powerful first step toward building long-term value and resilience.
A Corporate Guide to Working From Home
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.
A Corporate Guide to Dependent Care
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.
A Corporate Guide to Paid Sick Leave
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.
