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ESG Acronyms and What They Mean

3BL Media

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) CSR is viewed as a form of self-regulation or a voluntary initiative by organizations to contribute to environmental or social goals and to be accountable to themselves, their stakeholders and broader society.

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Top 40 MBAs double down on commitments to sustainability

Corporate Knights

A business course that once focused on maximizing shareholder profit now teaches how to measure purposeful value creation. A risk-management class, once strictly concerned with fiscal threats to corporate profits, now assesses climate impacts on bottom-line decisions. There is a lot more we can do.”. 5 5 Gordon S.

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Tips for auditing an ethical supply chain

GreenBiz

Mon, 03/29/2021 - 00:01. Many serious concerns have hung over the supply chains of global corporations for decades, ranging from human rights issues to lack of transparency about sourcing and other matters. Tips for auditing an ethical supply chain. Jerome Brustlein.

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Two Pillars for a Sustainable Dialogue

Chris Hall

The same year, An joined the company, tasked with setting up its public relations and corporate social responsibility department (CSR). Further, the company’s value creation business model is anchored on its ‘Four I’ pillars: integration, innovation, investment and impact.

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The Time is Right to Mandate Financial Reporting of ESG Issues

Steven Mintz

Including the SASB information in an  integrated report  provides a single location for both financial and sustainability information and enables companies to link the SASB information explicitly to long-term value creation. Currently, the SEC does not require extensive line-item disclosure of ESG matters.

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US Pharma Prices: a Hard Pill to Swallow

Chris Hall

And in this age of corporate social responsibility, companies have a role to play in ensuring their products are made available to those who need them most. In 2021, US President Joe Biden finalised the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) , signing into law measures to prevent drug price increases from surpassing inflation.

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Dignity First Climate Leadership

Sustainable Round Table

I recently and explicitly promoted a “Dignity First” approach to leadership in a blog post entitled “ Dignity First: Executive, Enterprise and Economic Leadership ,” which grew out of my longer and broader investigation of the subject from almost two years ago, “ Leading with Dignity in 2021 ”.