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.
The JUST Report: Can Two New Corporate Alliances Deliver Real Solutions?
Companies are starting to hold each other accountable for their actions, and many of the underlying issues have distinctly bipartisan support. Take a look at two important corporate alliances coming out this week.
Corporate Climate Pledges Proliferate
For corporations, bold action on climate is already a must. Net-zero commitments – essentially, a promise to balance GHGs emitted with GHGs removed and/or avoided – are everywhere.
The JUST Report: Why Corporate Action on Racial Equity Matters
The role of business in advancing racial equity isn’t about politics. It’s about building a bridge to a better economy and a more just society.
The JUST Report: Silence Is Not An Option
“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.”
The JUST Report: Georgia On My Mind
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
The JUST Report: Corporate America Looks Beyond Minimum Wage
If we’re looking at what Americans want, and what our biggest corporations can provide them, the bar has to be set higher.
The JUST Report: Show Me The Money…And The Impact
investors are becoming sophisticated enough to tell the difference between greenwashing and value creation…and this Exxon case proves it.
The JUST Report: “With Unity, We Can Do Great Things, Important Things”
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.
The JUST Report: Why Reports of The Polling Industry’s Demise Are Greatly Exaggerated
Jennifer Tonti, our Managing Director of Survey Research, summarizes here what went wrong (and what went right) with this election cycle’s political polling, and how JUST’s approach differs.
The JUST Report: How Will Stakeholder Capitalism Fare Under a Biden Administration?
Public and private sectors are locked in a constant struggle, with the pendulum swinging between regulation and taxation on the one side, and free enterprise and profits on the other. For the good of the country, this has to change.
The JUST Report: As the Country Holds its Breath, Business Leadership is Needed
As I write this, the outcome of the Presidential election is still on a razor’s edge. Whoever emerges victorious will face a divided Congress and a country riven by political discord and scarred by an electoral process that has pushed us to the limit.
The JUST Report: Americans Want Business Leaders to Protect Our Democratic Process
With Election Day less than a week away, we built upon our recent polling and asked Americans what role they think companies and corporate leaders should play in upholding and protecting democracy.
The JUST Report: Raising Wages Doesn’t Destroy Value – Here’s Why
Last year, before COVID-19 rocked our world, we looked at three myths of sustainable – or “just” – investing. Myth #3 was that raising wages will kill share price and destroy value for investors (spoiler alert: this is not true).
This week saw the release of our new annual rankings of America’s Most JUST Companies and our celebration with Forbes of the new JUST 100 list.The event did not disappoint.
