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Article - McKinsey Quarterly
Five ways that ESG creates value
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Getting your environmental, social, and governance (ESG) proposition right links to higher value creation. Here’s why.
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Investors remind business leaders: Governance matters
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Activists continue to poke holes in corporate performance and returns, but they are having their greatest success with governance structures. Here’s how to think about their moves.
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The state of internal carbon pricing
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More and more companies are experimenting with internal carbon charges—but are their pricing thresholds correct?
Interview
When sustainability becomes a factor in valuation
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Sustainability efforts are material to investors only to the extent they affect cash flows. What matters depends on the industry.
Interview
Investing in sustainability: An interview with Al Gore and David Blood
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The former vice president and his partner in an investment-management firm argue that sustainability investing is essential to creating long-term shareholder value.
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How climate change could affect corporate valuations
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Efforts to reduce climate change can profoundly affect the valuations of many companies, but executives so far seem largely unaware.
Lessons and challenges
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Reflections on 20 years of McKinsey on Finance—and three challenges ahead
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Revolutionary innovations, brilliant ideas, and climate imperatives will change everything—except the fundamentals of finance and economics.
Charting growth
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Looking back: What does the ‘long term’ really mean?
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Stock markets can be volatile, and some years they decline. But the ups far outnumber the downs—and returns are in line with two centuries of performance.