Our latest report, “Making ESG Real: A Return to Values-Driven Investing,” explains the historical wrong turn taken by ESG investors, and proposes ways to re-prioritize the protection of the environment and society.
REPORT: Making ESG Work: How investors can help improve low-wage labor and ease income inequality
The Difficulty of Measuring a Company’s Social Impact
Why Quarterly Reporting From Business Makes Sense
A New Approach to Evaluating Company Social Performance
Briefing Memo: Increasing Diversity in Asset Management Firms for University Endowments
Ethical Investment is Booming. But What Is It?
Global Companies Get Too Much Credit for Their Transparency
Putting the 'S' in ESG: Measuring Human Rights Performance for Investors
In March 2017, the Center published Putting the 'S' in ESG: Measuring Human Rights Performance for Investors, an in-depth study of 12 leading frameworks for assessing companies’ social practices and impacts. It found that current measurement focuses on what is most convenient rather than most meaningful. Ninety-two percent of measures looked at company governance structures without any attempt to evaluate the effectiveness of those structures.
Investors Need Better Ways to Find Companies Making a Difference
Report Reveals Gaps in Social Performance Metrics Needed By Investors to Identify Leading Companies
The independent republic of the supply chain and the International Labor Conference 2016
Measuring Human Rights Performance
As companies work to meet their responsibility to respect human rights, metrics that help internal and external stakeholders understand the social impacts of their operations are urgently needed. While numerous measurement efforts have emerged in recent years, none has yet advanced a concise set of user-friendly, industry-specific indicators of strong performance.
