Corporate Purpose

Round up: the latest on ESG-related resolutions

Kellogg Company (NYSE: K) 2020 Annual Report

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Mervyn King, Paul Polman, Kerrie Waring, Bob Moritz and Gilbert Van Hassel lead the call for business and finance to support EU efforts to reform corporate governance rules

A new generation of shareholder proposals are asking firms to look at economy-wide risks, not just those that pertain to an individual company

‘You’re like a firefighter in front of a burning house with a fully charged fire hose, asking all of us to go find a bucket’ - Andrew Behar pens a letter to BlackRock’s CEO

A European Perspective on Achieving a Sustainable and Inclusive TransformationConversations about stakeholder capitalism are no longer new to the boardroom. Over the last two years, both companies and investors have endorsed the need to embrace a more holistic and inclusive approach to capitalism that considers the welfare of all stakeholders, including investors, employees, customers, business partners, local communities, and society at large. COVID-19 has brought new urgency to the question: What is the role of business in society beyond profit maximization and regulatory compliance?

Paul Hodgson looks at shareholder resolutions seeking to convert companies to B-Corps, and how even the lawyers agree that if you are not a B-Corps, shareholders come first

CEO extols corporate purpose in annual letter as investment behemoth tries to duck resolution on Business Roundtable commitments

Virginie Coulloudon outlines the new Public Value Principles