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Yellow Light: Esg Investing, A Caution To Fast Fashion Brands, Ka’Myia Gunn
Yellow Light: Esg Investing, A Caution To Fast Fashion Brands, Ka’Myia Gunn
Emory Corporate Governance and Accountability Review Perspectives
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Activism By Any Other Name: Stakeholder Capitalism, Esg, And Political Pushback, Kameron St Clare
Activism By Any Other Name: Stakeholder Capitalism, Esg, And Political Pushback, Kameron St Clare
Emory Corporate Governance and Accountability Review Perspectives
In recent years, Stakeholder Capitalism and ESG have become widely used terms not only in corporate board rooms, but in media commentary more generally. As their use and influence in practice have both grown, so, too, has the pushback from opponents of these values-based norms for the way the world does business. Indeed, in recent months, numerous Republican-led states, like Texas, have taken more substantive actions designed to thwart the actions and aims of ESG- and stakeholder capitalism-oriented corporations and investment funds. But what, exactly, do these terms mean? And where do these terms come from? Moreover, what’s all the …
The Market-Essential Role Of Corporate Climate Disclosure, George S. Georgiev
The Market-Essential Role Of Corporate Climate Disclosure, George S. Georgiev
Faculty Articles
This Article focuses on capital market efficiency as an often-downplayed legal rationale for mandating corporate climate disclosure, and explores it alongside the notion of investor demand, which has assumed a prominent and, increasingly, contested role in debates on climate disclosure. Because market efficiency (encompassing both securities price accuracy and overall capital market allocative efficiency) is generally unobservable, many commentators have instead emphasized the highly visible investor demand for climate-related disclosure as evidenced by shareholder proposals, voting behavior, stewardship policies, and public statements. Unfortunately, investor demand can be disputed, fairly or unfairly, because investor preferences are heterogeneous, dynamic, and difficult to …
The Sec’S Climate Disclosure Rule: Critiquing The Critics, George S. Georgiev
The Sec’S Climate Disclosure Rule: Critiquing The Critics, George S. Georgiev
Faculty Articles
Climate change is an existential phenomenon, which entails a wide variety of physical risks as well as sizeable but underappreciated economic risks. In March 2022, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) moved to address some of the information gaps related to the effects of climate change on firms by proposing a rule that requires public companies to report detailed and standardized information about important climate-related matters for the benefit of investors and markets. Though the rule proposal was welcomed by many market participants, it was also met with a level of opposition that was unusual in both its intensity …
The Human Capital Management Movement In U.S. Corporate Law, George S. Georgiev
The Human Capital Management Movement In U.S. Corporate Law, George S. Georgiev
Faculty Articles
Corporations cannot exist without workers, yet workers are not part of the formal or informal governance structures established by U.S. corporate law. Commentators and policymakers have bemoaned this state of affairs for decades, to little avail. Since the mid-2010s, however, a concept related to workers, human capital management (HCM), has become an increasingly prominent part of U.S. corporate governance. HCM is premised on the notion that workers can be viewed as “assets” and ought to be managed just as carefully as firms manage physical and capital assets. In practice, HCM is an expansive concept that has been used to refer …