Public Value

More finance chiefs talk about sustainability on earnings calls, provide disclosures

As corporations have become more aware of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DE&I) related opportunities, there has also been a surge of interest around Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), as organizations have turned to their employees for information that could help them build more robust employee strategies.

We believe these crosscurrents are coming together to propel the next wave of corporate transformation: the ESG transformation. Like digital, ESG has the potential to revamp how successful organisations plan, implement and operate.

New initiatives from the World Economic Forum and IFRS Foundation support the case for globally accepted sustainability reporting standards.

The quality and execution of a multi-faceted strategy will drive success as climate risk and business model disruption accelerate.

A new survey of European business leaders shows sustainable corporate governance as key to long-term value over short-term pressures.

Companies are increasingly aware that their customers and society in general expect businesess to adopt and work towards social and environmental objectives as well as the traditional financial ones. This involves not only re-evaluating firms’ models but re-imagining new, more inclusive ecosystems from a multi-stakeholder point of view. In this article, the authors propose an update to the Balanced Scorecard, one of the most successful management tools of all time, so that it can better help align stakeholders coming from very different places around each other’s goals as well as their own.

Machine learning can accelerate breakthrough advances in fields as diverse as energy, medicine, and urban planning.

Here are some questions to ask when a company says it plans to get to zero emissions.

To address more complex social challenges, design thinking must become radically more collaborative and oriented toward systems change.

Enthusiasm for systems change is not new, and a broader historical perspective will help systems change enthusiasts learn from the past what NOT to do: replicate the ineffective mindsets and engineering approaches that have defined so much of the systems change work in our sectors.

One model that holds great promise for sustainability is the circular economy (CE) — instead of digging up materials, using them once, and then throwing them away, companies in a CE recapture the enormous volume of resources in their value chain in order to use them again and again.

The Public Value Tool Kit is a set of materials designed to help educators and practitioners understand, utilize, and share the core concepts of the public value framework.

This essay reviews the development of public value management, tracing its rise from relative obscurity in the 1990s to the global attention it receives today.