Who really cares about the SDGs when it comes to nobody’s responsibility?
By Suhyon Oh ◦ 2 min read ◦ The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are the common goals of global development as we all agreed. Since its...
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Mar 25, 2021
SFDR, NFRD and the EU Taxonomy – What is their relationship?
By Andreas Rasche ◦ 5 min read ◦ The new Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) is on the minds of many investors these days. While a lot...
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Feb 25, 2021
Portfolios at risk of Deforestation
How can financial investors better understand underlying risks and act accordingly By Amanda Wildhaber, Dominik Wingeier, Jessica Brügger, Nico Meier, and Dr. Kristjan Jespersen...
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Feb 23, 2021
Under the radar: How companies can redefine what we consider socially responsible
By Verena Girschik ◦ 2 min read ◦ Notwithstanding promises of win-wins and synergies, we have good reasons to question whether companies address social problems in...
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Is Pollution the Only Road to Business Prosperity?
Sustainable Visioning as a driver of Corporate Transformation By Heather Louise Madsen ◦ 4 min read ◦ CO2 reduction is a hot topic for almost every...
Top Leadership Compensation: From Hockey-Stick to Shared Pay-checks
“Sharing is Caring” is a way to manage post-COVID19 Economic Crises and Layoffs By Anirudh Agrawal & Bharat Dhamani 10 of the 25 Linkedin...
Responsible Tax in Multinational Enterprises – Why?
By Peter Koerver Schmidt The tax practices of multinational enterprises (MNEs) attract massive interest in these years from the general media, policymakers as well...
Better than nothing but still “exSASBerating”!
By Dieter Zinnbauer. Why a powerful push by the world’s top asset manager towards more sustainability reporting still falls pretty short. Great news BlackRock,...
Business + purpose = big trouble. But wait, here is one surprising point of agreement
By Dieter Zinnbauer. Reactions to the recent statement by the Business Roundtable that recognizes a regard for stakeholders rather than a narrow focus on...
More CEOs Sacked For Ethical Failure Than For Poor Financial Performance
According to a recent study, for the first time more CEOs have been dismissed for ethical lapses than for poor financial performance (in 2018). What is the lesson? I think that we overvalue compliance and undervalue the effects of a corporate culture on sustainable business decisions…
Thinking outside the box on corporate tax practice
Corporate tax practice of multinational corporations (MNC) have been the topic of intense debate in the media and among policy makers in recent years. Most recently the news broke that Amazon would pay zero tax on their more than 11 billion profit in 2018. The OECD have coordinated a large project on the topic and involved countries around the world in discussing attempted solutions to the issue of “base erosion and profit shifting” which is the technical term for states finding it challenging to tax the profits of MNCs.