A Timeline ESG Investing Comes of Age How religious conviction and changing public sentiment led to the rise of investing for values and what companies have done to keep up.

Green KPIs sound good in theory, but when companies are left to track their own progress, there’s more room for manipulation than accountability.

The impression among business leaders is that ESG just hasn’t gone mainstream in the investment community. A version of this article appeared in the May–June 2019 issue of Harvard Business Review.

Current Scores: 2 (Governance), 1 (Environmental & Social) Current Score: 13.2* Note: MSCI, ISS, CSA, CDP and EcoVadis ESG ratings are as of April 1, 2024. Sustainalytics rating is as of May 23, 2024.

An overall sustainability score was calculated, with a maximum achievable score of 100. The top 500 companies with the ...

Discover the telltale signs that major banks are secretly retreating from ESG investing amid mounting political and financial pressures.

It was — and remains — an absurd argument. But ESG’s activists, propagandists and rent-seekers have been found out, and they have had to try something.

1. Instant ESG Maturity Score: Within a couple of minutes of entering basic company information; company name and website, the tool computes an ESG score on a 0–100 scale. 2.

WEF’s Global Gender Gap Report 2025 released yesterday showed the Philippines has closed 78.1 percent of the gender gap, an improvement from its overall gender parity score of 77.9 percent last ...

WEF shows sustainability data must match financial data rigour as 85% of executives advance ESG reporting despite regulatory shifts Sustainability data has evolved far beyond a simple compliance ...

The global gender gap narrowed to 68.8%, marking the strongest annual advancement since the Covid-19 pandemic, according to data from the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap Report 2025 on ...

Over the years, the WEF’s stakeholder economy vision and the use of ESG has infiltrated the United States. During the Biden years, when many of these ideas were formally enacted, the price of ...