Hank Boerner is Chairman of Governance & Accountability Institute, based in NYC. He’s been a business journalist, corporate communicator, issue manager and crisis response coach for corporate leaders for three decades. He honed... More updates >

“The corporate community is responding to this heightened and accelerated interest on the part of global investors,” said Hank Boerner, chairman and co-founder of the Governance & Accountability Institute (G&A), during a recent... More updates >

“None of that was driven by regulation,” the institute’s executive vice president Louis Coppola told Bloomberg BNA. “There is no regulation in the U.S. that mandates sustainability reporting,” he said, at least not in standalone... More updates >

A recent study by G&A Institute suggests that 81 percent of all S&P 500 companies are publishing sustainability reports. To get to this point has taken roughly 20 years, mostly promoted by the community that evolved around the... More updates >

This puts companies already managing and disclosing their ESG performance ahead of the game, says Lauren Kelley Koopman, a director in PwC’s US Sustainable Business Solutions practice. In the US, 81 percent of S&P 500 companies... More updates >