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Category: ESG

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Welcome to the New World of Whistleblowing

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Corporate whistleblowers are some of Hollywood’s favorite underdogs. Spurred on by a sense of moral obligation, they risk their reputations, their careers and even their personal safety on the big screen to expose wrongdoing by billion-doll...

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Corporate Diversity Advances in Fits and Starts

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For champions of corporate diversity, progress can often look like two steps forward, one step back. Case in point: Among companies in the S&P 500 Index, women now comprise 30% of the members of their boards of directors. On one hand, t...

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Will the SEC Make an Example Out of Facebook?

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Facebook infamously began in the early 2000s as a dorm-room lark by Harvard University student Mark Zuckerberg. Now nearly 20 years old, what was once a killer app stopped being cool years ago. It has become an online hub for a strange conf...

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New EU Sustainability Reporting Standards Could Offer Blueprint for U.S.

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In the United States, the Green New Deal is a political hot-button issue. In Europe, it’s a set of policies that already have been adopted to transform the European Union’s economy and combat climate change. That includes how companies disc...

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Will Disabilities Fall Under the SEC’s Vision of Diversity?

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Researchers at Michigan State University last year published some intriguing findings on office culture. Their question: How does including employees with disabilities impact workplace productivity? Their answer: Significantly, and for the...

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