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Businesses who take environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) seriously can transform their companies, industries and economies worldwide. Learn how to think critically about ESG to ensure your company remains resilient with sustainable growth in the long term. ESG goes beyond decarbonization commitments, corporate goals and industry awards to core business issues, stakeholders and the balance sheet. Managing these risks and opportunities requires courage, imagination and careful analysis to improve and innovate around what is and isn't working at a company. It requires mainstreaming a consistent definition of ESG so key decision-makers are empowered to act across the business and their value chains, including in daily business practices, communication with stakeholders, financial considerations, and the integration of new technologies and products. ESG Mindset guides business leaders, ESG specialists and CSR strategists through the nuanced and most thoughtful ways to focus on these core business issues. Equipping readers with an enhanced way to think through complex business decisions and interconnected crises, the book provides accessible perspectives and real-world examples from companies around the world that have implemented a meaningful approach to ESG and learned lessons along the way. Readers will learn how to think about pressing ESG challenges from a new perspective and build defensibility in their efforts to future-proof a business and potentially save the world as only they can.
List of contents
Chapter - 01: Introduction to ESG; Chapter - 02: ESG data - Standards, rating agencies, and value; Chapter - 03: Saving your company and saving the planet; Chapter - 04: The Social effect - tipping points and stakeholders; Chapter - 05: Governance ESG leadership and the board; Chapter - 06: The dual intersection between technology and ESG; Chapter - 07: Mainstreaming ESG to improve and innovate; Chapter - 08: Financial services - impact and ESG; Chapter - 09: Criticism and controversies around ESG; Chapter - 10: Interconnected ESG risks and issues; Chapter - 11: All well and good; Chapter - 12: The future of ESG; Chapter - 13: List of abbreviations (or ESG Alphabet Soup);
About the author
Matthew Sekol is an ESG and sustainability advocate at Microsoft, based between New York City, New York and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He guides companies across industries by unpacking their ESG and sustainability challenges along the intersection with technology. In his current role, he also sits on the LP Advisory Committee of Morgan Stanley's Next Level Fund. In 2023, Onalytica named him to its "Who's Who in ESG" list.
Summary
Learn to think critically about environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) and take a holistic approach to business that balances change with long-term organizational resilience and sustainable growth.
