How an organization values its stakeholders and considers ESG metrics often determines their employee retention, success and longevity in today's corporate culture. Executive compensation used to mean ...

Airbnb spelled out in an announcement on its website the five stakeholders it considers important, the priorities and principles it will focus on for each, and the metrics it will use to measure ...

Everyone should agree that the three most important direct stakeholders for any organization are investors, customers, and employees—not in any order, per se. A successful organization builds two-way ...

To make the shift, it’s crucial to appoint corporate boards that embrace the change—and that’s not always happening, this management consultant says. Recently, I attended a presentation sponsored by a ...

Being a forward-looking organization when it comes to environmental, social and governance-related matters means considering the needs of a wide range of stakeholders. Investors, Boards of Directors, ...

The Business Roundtable, a coalition of America’s leading corporate executives, created a firestorm with its August 19 announcement calling for corporations to create value for all stakeholders rather ...

R. Edward Freeman, an American philosopher and Professor of Business Administration at the Darden School at the University of Virginia, discusses his stakeholder theory and his work on business ethics ...

Stakeholder capitalism is often interpreted as redistributing value away from shareholders and towards stakeholders. But the best way to repurpose capitalism is to ensure that it serves both. Ever ...

Three years ago, the senior managers of a company in an extractive industry decided to commission an audit of the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) metrics included in its annual report.

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