Insights
Perspectives from the field. Research that reveals the issues. The reason we see an opportunity for better.
In sustainable finance, cash flow depends on a ‘credibility flow’. The problem: there’s plenty of evidence of ‘credibility friction’. Here’s the analysis and the argument.
What it means when your ESG report is simply machine-readable evidence,
The first of a two-parter on research into report readership. The annual report hasn’t lost importance; it’s just lost attention.
We live in an era of delivery deficit. So it's vital to show your workings.
A note for financial services from Hari Mann, Visiting Fellow, Judge Business School, and Director of the Initiative for Purposeful Finance, University of Cambridge.
Academic and financial data shows that when ESG communication is transparent and highlights actual progress, the market rewards with higher valuations.
Making people aware and making people care. Both.
The evidence is that corporate sustainability reporting has become an exercise in abundance. Of material no one reads.
There is evidence of a shift from performative virtue to intrinsic virtue.
