Plenty of shoppers say they prefer sustainable products over ordinary ones. Yet for consumer product companies, tapping into this green demand can prove tricky. One challenge: establishing that ...

From the start of the postwar era to March 2020, boards judged business leaders’ effectiveness primarily by their ability to maximize efficiency and deliver steady performance. Financial outcomes and ...

Years before the term metaverse was popularized by Mark Zuckerberg’s rebranding of Facebook to Meta in late 2021, Matthew Ball published a series of essays on what the metaverse is all about—and what ...

Digitally enabled ecosystems are a vital part of the modern business landscape. They open the door to new customers and markets, and broaden and enhance a firm’s value proposition through the seamless ...

Europe’s leading companies now have proportionately more CDOs (42%) than North America’s (38%), driven by appointments in the UK, Switzerland, and Germany. We believe this is likely due to Europe’s ...

Some definitions will be clearly outlined in the reporting standards or applicable laws. Where they are not, some amount of judgment will be necessary. If a company were to disclose every single ...

Companies have been appointing chief sustainability officers (CSOs) at a brisk pace recently, and it’s no wonder. With net-zero deadlines on the horizon, investors increasingly want to understand the ...

Old-fashioned engagement surveys provide little or no meaningful insight into reward strategies because they focus on a point-in-time sentiment rather than a gauge of employee preferences. Companies ...

Canadian economist Mark Carney has been on the front line of each of the major economic shocks of the past 20 years: credit crisis, climate change, and COVID-19. As governor of the Bank of Canada from ...

Those working from home are also more likely to shop sustainably. More than half (56%) of those surveyed who work from home say they’ve become more eco-friendly, compared with 48% of those who work ...

A version of this article appeared in the Autumn 2021 issue of strategy+business. The mythology of corporate boards goes something like this: put a group of high-achieving, experienced, ...

A version of this article appeared in the Autumn 2021 issue of strategy+business. Wouldn’t it be nice if we could just take a simplicity vaccine that would immunize us from the chaos in our world?