Directors and Boards
In their guest column for Directors and Boards, BCG’s David Young and Gerry Hansell write about the changes that institutional investors and boards are making with regard to social purposes of companies and capital. Investors are turning their attention to “how companies perform on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors and are increasingly incorporating that performance into how they make investment decisions and engage with company management,” write Young and Hansell. They advise that boards create an agenda that not only meets the company’s most critical challenges but one that also considers how the company will shape its future environment, in relation to society’s most critical challenges.
