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8 Leaders at Davos 2022 Explain How Business Can Deliver on ESG Promises

3BL Media

Academics at MIT Sloan School of Management say the lack of standardization on ESG scoring is leading to “aggregate confusion,” according to a recent report. Consolidation is needed to avoid ESG reporting becoming an end in itself and distracting companies from investing their resources in sustainable value creation.

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Top 40 MBAs double down on commitments to sustainability

Corporate Knights

A business course that once focused on maximizing shareholder profit now teaches how to measure purposeful value creation. A risk-management class, once strictly concerned with fiscal threats to corporate profits, now assesses climate impacts on bottom-line decisions. The key is to never get complacent.

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Sofidel: Building a Better Future

3BL Media

Sofidel pursues the promotion of the culture of health (from production environments to the hygienic-sanitary characteristics of its products up to their distribution) as one of the basic elements of its value creation process and as a factor in people's development. Quality Education.

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Launch of Human Rights and Child Labour Indices for Battery Passport

3BL Media

We must keep the people across our entire value chain top of mind. Everyone must take part in the value creation. As we deliver on the immense demand, it is fundamental that we do so sustainably.

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The Digital Economy Is Broken—But It’s Not Too Late

Stanford Social Innovation

Academics can help meet the extensive need for study in multiple areas, such as how emerging technologies like AI are transforming Global Majority economies and burgeoning forms of work. Most crucially, rights-based regimes need to be evolved through global standards setting.

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Take Five: Breaking Point

Chris Hall

Leaving aside the dubious value-creation benefits of M&A activity, the report suggests innovation and investment in people and technology are the strongest drivers of long-term growth. Unsurprisingly, sustainability also plays a role in sustainable business growth.

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A Fair Day’s Wage for a Fair Day’s Work

Chris Hall

Increasingly, investors are determining that fair executive remuneration should also include the integration of ESG-related KPIs within pay structures, although this, too, presents a series of challenges. Neervoort says that ESG metrics should be quantifiable indicators that are material to the company’s sustainable value creation and anchored in (..)