The article explores the historical context and key players in the finance-for-good sector, including portfolio managers and impact investors. It covers the importance of ESG, SRI, and various corporate citizenship concepts, emphasizing their strategic value beyond ethics. The series provides insights and guidelines for developing an authentic corporate sustainability culture.
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Isn’t ESG a Finance Term? Can’t our CFO
The landscape of business leadership has evolved, emphasizing authentic and ethical risk management through ESG practices. Companies increasingly recognize the importance of holistic approaches and employee well-being. Initiatives like mindfulness and community support enhance productivity and engagement, illustrating that broader thinking contributes to organizational efficacy beyond mere profit and time management.
Lessons From Other Sectors On How (and W...
The article emphasizes the importance of learning from sectors like military, education, and public health to enhance small and medium-sized businesses. It explores how cross-sector insights can lead to effective corporate citizenship and strategic practices, encouraging companies to adapt in a rapidly changing world characterized by complexity and interconnection.
Corporate Social Performance and Financi...
This article series discusses the importance of corporate citizenship and robust environmental, social, and governance (ESG) practices for organizations. It highlights the positive correlation between corporate social performance and financial performance, emphasizing that sustainability-focused companies are increasingly outperforming traditional ones by fostering market trust and managing long-term risks effectively.
Greenwashing — Value Signaling, Tricky D
Is it Greenwashing? Who or what needs to change? 10 questions and 8 examples for your inner Ethicist and Private Investigator 🕵🏽♀️ Greenwashing, in its pure case, is making showy statements about a generous and/or responsible action, while suppressing information on the much larger, negative impact of other corporate practices. It is a form of […]
Greenwashing — The Concept And A Few Cle
Cynical marketing, naivete vs. intentional misinformation, and finding a way to openly discuss mistakes and missteps Companies are making efforts at doing better, and embracing corporate citizenship in all its alphabet soup glory (CS, CSR, CW, DEI, ESG, SDG, PPP, etc). It’s not perfect, nor are all efforts authentic — exaggeration, compromising on values, and even greenwashing […]
Effects of Setting Minimum Wage or Minim...
Capitalism, socialism, systemic thinking and creating a society we want to live in Have you noticed in the last 5–15 years, that prominent folks are talking about the intersections of things a lot more? And how some “non-business” practices are increasingly regarded as indispensable to the executive and the company’s success? Business is successfully being […]
How the Alphabet Soup Of Corporate Citiz...
And Why Your Company’s Bottom Line Needs Purposeful and Inclusive Culture To Stay Resilient In this series of articles on the alphabet soup of corporate citizenship, I’ve pondered the changes in how we make impact; laid out some history & definitions of some concepts; shared a few examples of small and large companies leading the way; […]
Burnout, I’m Out, and Why- Systemic Fact
Employee engagement, the pandemic & wars, burnout, big-tech layoffs, and the Great Resignation, (or regret-meh…) In this series of articles on the alphabet soup of corporate citizenship, I’ve pondered the changes in how companies acquire a loyal customer and employee base, in how business is leveraging it’s historied mindset of solving problems to make positive impact; […]
The Way We Make Impact is Changing
It’s a wild and exciting thing to see the corporate and non-profit mindsets coming together– embracing a little complexity in analytics and realities, and doing well, while doing good. Folks are seeing that doing business better, listening to all stakeholders, managing for the long-term, and doing good… can be good for business.