Explore our insights, spanning topics from sustainability to stakeholder engagement, activism to responsible investment.
Ask an Advocate Anything: Mike Schade, Mind The Store
Chemicals advocate Mike Schade has a warning for retailers: The market is moving to transparency and safer materials, and you should be ahead of that trend.
Ask an Advocate Anything: Kendra Ulrich, Stand.earth
Stand.earth targets companies like Carnival Corporation with high-profile, hard-hitting campaigns. Kendra Ulrich walks us through her group’s most recent action.
Ask an Advocate Anything: John Hocevar, Greenpeace
John Hocevar, Greenpeace’s Ocean Campaigns Director, says a “perfect storm” of trends is poised to unleash a surge of action on marine debris.
CEOs for Voting and Against Executing Journalists
Companies are typically reticent to take public positions on issues, but this has been rapidly shifting, particularly since November 2016.
Guest Blog | The Financial CHOICE Act: The Wrong Choice for Investors and Companies, Part II
Does the Financial CHOICE Act’s subtitle – Creating Hope and Opportunity for Investors, Consumers and Entrepreneurs – accurately reflect the bill’s provisions? (Part 2)
Guest Blog | The Financial CHOICE Act: The Wrong Choice for Investors and Companies, Part I
Does the Financial CHOICE Act’s subtitle – Creating Hope and Opportunity for Investors, Consumers and Entrepreneurs – accurately reflect the bill’s provisions? (Part 1)
Foes Turn Friends to Heal Oceans, Forests, and Climate
Earth Day 50 Challenge Unites Strange Bedfellows using the “Greenpeace-Walmart Effect”
Guest Blog | Shareowners to Companies: Take Action on Climate!
According to the latest Proxy Preview, a comprehensive overview of the 2016 shareholder season, this may well be the “Year of the Environment”—with a focus on climate.
How Industry Fuels the Anti-Plastics Movement — or Avoids It
Recycling and packaging campaigns come in a recurring cycle of waves that approach and recede, but rarely quite reach the shore. It’s time to change the cycle.
BP and Google Leave ALEC: Are Companies Finally Taking Climate Change Seriously?
What does a mass exodus from the controversial American Legislative Exchange Council, or Alec, say about stakeholder engagement and climate campaigns?
Envisioning a Future with Less Doom and Gloom: Opportunities for the Next Generation of Optimists
When it comes to stories about the fate of the earth, headlines are usually dominated by tales of gloom and doom.
10 Tips for Activists When Engaging Companies
We have often seen that activists achieve the highest outcomes with companies when they follow these key tips.
Guest Blog: The 4 Keys to Success when Partnering with NGOs
Businesses can improve their social and environmental performance and find new market opportunities through partnerships with NGOs.
10 Tips for Stakeholder Engagement with Activists
Companies that are the most successful with stakeholder conflict are always looking at the bigger picture, getting down to the heart of the problem.
When Power Meets Purpose: 6 Ways Corporations and Activists Can Unite
Over and over, I am bewildered by the anger and vitriol that often divides groups that love to hate and demonize each other.
Engage Radically
New Mckinsey report confirms stakeholder engagement is an important factor in CSR.