Author: ericinherent

Some bricks and mortar retailers are adapting well to the new normal.

States use creative solutions to address the future of work as “laboratories of democracy.”

Business leaders insist on the business case for ESG investments.

This enduring cross-sector partnership illustrates the kind of social, and economic, impact that the private sector can help drive. Paula Luff, Inherent’s Director, Sustainability & Impact, helped create and lead this program while she was at Pfizer.

A discussion of the risk premium added to borrowing costs attributable to climate-related issues.

An open letter to Jefferies employees shared publicly regarding the value of questioning any company’s leadership.

Some guidance on the numerous reporting framework acronyms.

An opinion piece from Jamie Dimon and Warren Buffett regarding the costs of managing to quarterly earnings.

An analysis of the trends in 2018’s proxy season.

A history of the disposable straw, the environmental controversy surrounding it, and broader lessons on capitalism.

An overview of an interactive map depicting the development of coal power plants since 2000.

A look at the global environmental impact of plastic, 40 percent of which is used just once before being discarded

An analysis of the strategy behind the world’s largest CEO pay package–and one of the most unique.

A professor discusses her view of where EM markets are in the cycle.

A look at the growing world of direct-to-consumer companies.

An opinion piece about the value of Starbucks’s bias training.

A professor’s view on how to improve capitalism, the “world’s largest co-operative system.”

An empirical analysis that demonstrates the alpha generation of a lower carbon investment portfolio.

A look at the increasingly public role many CEOs are playing in weighing in on controversial political and social issues.

How Cape Town and its residents are coping with an unprecedented water shortage, and its implications for business.