Sustainability and environmental, social, and governance investing used to be the buzzwords of activists. Today, c-suite executives and boards of corporations and financial firms are struggling to come to grips with these terms and the issues around ESG. …

Neither military power nor wealth can stop the destructive global spread of COVID-19, a tiny member of the Coronavirus family. Its full human impact and economic cost will not be known for months to come. The virus is only now spreading amongst the most vulnerable populations, the millions who are…

The modern corporate sustainability movement started in the late 1990s, in the wake of globalization debates and the Battle of Seattle. Since then it has grown and matured enormously. Investors are beginning to realize that the integration of environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors can enhance performance. We are now…

The $2.5 trillion fashion and apparel industry is an economic heavyweight. One of the largest consumer industries, it employs over 60 million people along its global value chain. For many emerging markets it is a stepping stone out of poverty with women making up over 70% of the supply chain. …

Georg Kell, Chairman of Arabesque and Founding Director of the UN Global Compact. Society is rewriting the rules around what being a ‘responsible company’ means. How do you go from a resource taker to a market builder and still generate value? Political upheaval, technological disruption and environmental constraints are making…

Barbara Krumsiek, Senior Fellow, Georgetown Women’s Leadership Institute, and Arabesque Board member. I have my own definitions for three key words in this question — “we”, “there”, “yet”. By “we” I mean professional working women; by “there” I mean a point where there are as many average to incompetent women…

Today, we live in a globalised and digitised world where information is generated and flows at unprecedented levels. Consider the numbers: within the next hour alone, we will generate 21.6 million tweets, 8.5 billion emails, 34,200 new websites, and 144 million Google searches. Ours is an age where data shapes…