The JUST Report: ‘The Private Sector Needs to Play a Bigger Role’
As COP26 draws to a close, it’s becoming clear how much the conversation has shifted to incorporate the financial and corporate worlds.
The JUST Report: Sustainability Is Adding Over $1 Billion To HP’s Business Every Year
What is fundamentally different from the COP of two decades ago, however, is that much of the activist rhetoric is now embraced by corporate leaders and investors.
The JUST Report: Workers Are Demanding More
This week, close to 15,000 workers at companies like John Deere, Kellogg, and Kaiser Permanente are on strike right now to demand better wages and benefits.
The JUST Report: Rewriting a Key ESG Rule
The Department of Labor’s new proposal, alongside a focus on mandated disclosure at the SEC, places added pressure on companies to get their ESG strategies right.
The JUST Report: Measuring a Company’s Most Important Asset
The SEC continues to signal that more corporate disclosure on human capital is inevitable. Companies are now left to decide which side of the curve they want to be on.
The JUST Report: Fixing Corporate America’s “Broken Rung”
Individual stories of women rising to the top of organizations (GM CEO Mary Barra was just named the next chair of the Business Roundtable) can mask not only the lack of representation on a larger scale, but the significant gap in internal development across corporate America.
The JUST Report: The Companies at the Leading Edge of Climate Policy
This year’s Climate Week comes one month after the IPCC reported unequivocally that climate change is “rapid, widespread, and intensifying,” and that human influence is the key driver.
The JUST Report: Trust in Business is More Important Than Ever
In a new survey of 500 business leaders and 1,000 other members of the U.S. public, PwC found that in their roles as consumers and employees, respondents trust business more now than before the pandemic.
The JUST Report: Why Childcare is a Business Imperative
We are in a critical moment for considering what it means to be a working parent, especially a working mom, in this country.
The JUST Report: The 32 Companies That Lead Their Industries on Workers
This coming Monday marks Labor Day in the U.S. – an occasion to celebrate workers and honor their contributions. Ahead of the holiday, we took a look at the 32 companies that top their industries on worker issues in our 2021 Rankings of America’s Most JUST Companies.
The JUST Report: Communities Are A Stakeholder, Not A Box To Check
Some companies have been used to “checking the box” of DEI with philanthropic donations and community investment, but that isn’t where real change happens.
The JUST Report: It’s Been Two Years Since the BRT Statement, How Are Things Going?
Yesterday was the two-year anniversary of the Business Roundtable’s embrace of a stakeholder approach in its revised Statement on the Purpose of a Corporation. The question everyone is wondering is – has it just been for show?
The JUST Report: How Americans Feel About Corporate Vaccine Mandates
This week we and our partner The Harris Poll fielded an update to the question on vaccine mandates in the private sector that we first asked Americans back in mid-June – here are the results.
The JUST Report: Reality Hits ESG
How do you know an ESG fund is really making an impact? How can you be sure a company is doing what it says it’s doing, and truly delivering stakeholder value?
The JUST Report: Special Forces
How can companies do better for women and people of color?
The JUST Report: “The Clock is Ticking”
A deadly heat wave in the Pacific Northwest, fatal flooding in western Europe and China, and more have brought fresh urgency to tackling the climate crisis.
The JUST Report: ‘The Only Sustainable Competitive Advantage’
PayPal CEO Dan Schulman and Chipotle CEO Brian Niccol appeared on CNBC’s Squawk Box to explain what they see as the most important step for attracting and retaining talent post-pandemic.
Amazon has a new CEO, Andy Jassy, as of July 5, and top of his agenda is to “Strive to be Earth’s Best Employer.” That’s a big statement – lets unpack it.
The New Blueprint for Business
The majority of Americans believe in capitalism but want to see it improved, especially through treating workers with respect and equal opportunity.
As shareholder demand for action on human capital and DEI metrics rises, we may be entering a new worker paradigm.
The JUST Report: We Need To Talk About Wages
As the debate rages over why millions of jobs, especially low-wage ones, have been left unfilled, the idea of lifting wages and providing good jobs has gotten relatively little attention.
The JUST Report: Healthy Workers = Healthy Returns
Don’t be fooled. Long-term value creation for all stakeholders is best for shareholders too.
The Just Report: No Turning Back
On Wednesday, an investor firm owning 0.02% of ExxonMobil stock gathered enough support to win at least two seats on the oil and gas giant’s board. The shockwaves of this outcome will reverberate throughout every boardroom in America.
The JUST Report: It Starts And Ends With Authenticity
PolicyLink hosted an event this week that shed light on a critical lesson that all C-suite executives need for leading through this era of stakeholder capitalism: authenticity is everything.
Can The Stakeholder Model Give American Business a Global Competitive Advantage?
“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.
