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Amazon worker safety is a persistent issue for the company, but in the booming era of ESG investing, why don’t more investors seem to care?

BlackRock is the latest (and biggest) player to shatter any delusions that companies can ignore the climate.

Can big business help clean up America’s public square? It’s a question that matters enormously in the current context, as the US gets a new president while still wrestling with the insurrectionist impulses and polarisation promoted by the outgoing one. A fortnight after the rampage at the US Capitol in Washington, at least two dozen American companies declared that they will penalise some Republican politicians for their alleged role in the riot as well as their frenzied legislative attemp...

The Next Move: Ensuring Fair Pay from the Front Line to the Executive Suite As the pandemic continues to strain the economy, disproportionate effects are being borne by front line and contract workers, as well as workers of color. A variety of efforts are underway by business leaders to try to close these gaps: financial security audits, hazard pay, efforts to align compensation methodology at all levels of the organization. But questions remain about which actions are most appropriate and how ...

Predictions for Business & Society in 2021 Will the turning of the calendar mean the turning of a page on the crises of 2020? This question is surely top of mind as 2020 nears its end. Yet, it’s a question complicated by the fact that, while 2020 will be remembered as the year of COVID-19, the pandemic revealed an array of other, longer-standing issues: economic inequality, systemic racism, stresses on democracy, and the rising threat of climate change. Sometimes with changes in words, and so...

20 Issues and Ideas That Deserved More Attention in 2020 December 22, 2020  • David K. Gibson It is normal, at the end of the year, for organizations such as ours to assemble a “best of” list of stories. It’s a recognition of great work and a small thank you gift to those who have supported us. We don’t have to tell you that 2020 was not a normal year. But even in the maelstrom of a pandemic, social unrest, and political division, the important work of individuals and programs that ...