For years, one of the best-known findings in sustainable investing was that companies on Fortune’s 100 Best Companies to Work For list delivered unusually strong stock returns. Alex Edmans documented the result in a 2011 study, and later research with … Read More
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When Disclosure Disappears, Where Do You Look?
Our clients are increasingly running into the same problem: it’s getting harder to see what’s happening inside the workforces of America’s public companies. Companies are publishing less quantitative workforce data. Some standardized sources have disappeared or become less accessible, while … Read More
Black Women CEOs in the S&P 500 Double, New Veteran Workforce Data, 2026 Proxy Transparency Falls
Black Women CEOs in the S&P 500 Double Last week, Dow announced that Karen Carter, the current President of Packaging and Specialty Plastics, will succeed Jim Fitterling as CEO on July 1st. She will become the first woman to lead … Read More
People Still Matter and Boards Are Getting Older
People Still Matter Two recent stories—one about a 175-year-old industrial company, the other about a century-old technology giant—push back against the idea that AI diminishes the importance of people. Betting on People in the Age of AI According to Bloomberg, … Read More