After Coronavirus

Last year, Directors & Boards devoted its attention to the rising focus on environmental, social and governance issues (ESG) from institutional investors and others, culminating in our Character of the Corporation event last November. While much of the discussion surrounding ESG was illuminating and perhaps game-changing, I worried that there was a certain “faddishness” in thinking about stakeholders in addition to shareholders. I worried that in the next (inevitable) economic downturn, ESG principles would fly out the door.

But that was the time Before Coronavirus (B.C.).

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David Shaw

David Shaw is the publishing director of Directors & Boards.


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