Reports & Research

Highlighting the key Issues that rose to prominence in our 2021 survey of the American public, to provide corporate leaders with clear direction for where they should focus their efforts to make their companies more just and stave off emerging challenges from The Great Resignation.

In this year’s Survey of Americans’ Views on Business, we’ve turned to the public once again to ask them how they think corporate America is doing today – and provide a lookback on our findings over the years to see how views have shifted.

For Veterans Day, we analyzed veterans policies of America’s largest companies and found that about half disclose on specific veterans initiatives, while also making strides in other areas of worker equity.

A new survey from JUST Capital & The Harris Poll of active duty military and veterans, their family members, and the wider public. 87% of respondents say companies have a role to play in actively recruiting veterans to their workforces.

We surveyed American workers and employers to determine how effectively diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts are going after more than a year of bold commitments.

With investors, regulators, and other stakeholders paying close attention to how companies treat their workers, we analyzed the state of human capital data disclosure among the 100 largest U.S. employers.

74% of respondents say companies can help address global climate change by committing to environmental goals like reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

What Americans think about the state of child care in the U.S., and their expectations of how companies can help parents balance caregiving responsibilities with working.

By leveraging supplier spend with diverse and local businesses and funding local education programs, companies are proving how community investment drives racial equity.

Since the Business Roundtable redefined the Purpose of a Corporation two years ago, how do Americans think companies are measuring up to this new stakeholder-focused purpose?

JUST Capital and PayPal have teamed up with the Financial Health Network and the Good Jobs Institute to make businesses stronger and more resilient.

A robust guide for C-suite leaders as they approach racial equity work and tackle systemic racism across three key domains of corporate influence.

With enhanced diversity, equity, and inclusion goals, along with pressure from shareholders and advocates, more of America’s largest companies are building diverse boards.

We take a look at how America’s largest companies are developing new talent pipelines across underserved communities of color.

This Memorial Day weekend, we take a look at veteran hiring across the Russell 1000 and see that companies that disclose specific veteran hiring policies outperform those that don’t.

Racial pay gaps persist in the United States. We’re tracking which companies are assessing if they exist within their own organizations and sharing the results.

An in-depth accounting of the state of racial equity disclosure from the 100 largest U.S. employers – assessing how corporate America is taking concrete action to advance racial equity today.

The United States has the largest prison population per capita in the world, and it disproportionately affects Black and Latino Americans. We’re tracking which companies have re-entry policies and which have bans on prison labor.

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.

Explore the perspectives of both employers and employees on how COVID-19 is continuing to shape the workplace one year into the pandemic.

2020 was a year that exposed a simple truth – that society’s shift to stakeholder capitalism is now an urgent necessity.

Many companies have already stepped up to support their workers, customers, and local communities – here’s what they’re doing.

With Election Day less than a week away, and concerns of a contested election mounting, we expanded our recent polling asking Americans what role they think companies and corporate leaders should play in upholding and protecting democracy. 

These are the corporations at the forefront of stakeholder-driven leadership.

Last year, the BRT released a commitment to all stakeholders over shareholder primacy. We take a look at how the companies performed against our annual Rankings metrics.