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Companies can both decarbonize and boost long-term growth. But it means pushing beyond abatement curves’ focus on cost and instead empowering people—while making a few big, strategic bets.

As companies now build back in the recovery, how can they assess which business model changes and innovations will also create the most environmental and societal value for their stakeholders?

Real progress toward racial equity depends not only on hiring Black employees, but also on making sure they stay and thrive.

A marketing executive of color urges executives to get to know their employees where they live.

Manufacturing companies must avoid key missteps as they shift to more environmentally sustainable approaches.

Companies have devoted a lot of attention to diversity in hiring and promotions. A new study offers clues as to why the efforts have fallen short—and what can be done to change that.

Even if your company is committed to diversity inclusion, you might have hidden biases in your hiring strategies. According to recent research on the hiring practices at several prestigious firms, this can take several forms.

The Six New Rules of Business offers a path forward for business leaders who aim to do good in the world.

The ultimate objective of innovation should be to create value – and in this era, the process of innovation should be oriented toward addressing societal-level problems.

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.