RESEARCH BRIEF - Long-term debt markets reward increases in corporate citizenship with lower risk ratings and lower costs of capital.
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RESEARCH BRIEF - Corporate wellness programs are widely used and can benefit employees across the health spectrum. Employee participation in these programs can improve productivity and ultimately the bottom line.
RESEARCH BRIEF - Firms that reduce their environmental impacts—through lower carbon emissions and formal environmental management systems—increase consumer demand and productivity.
RESEARCH BRIEF - Firms working to improve their environmental sustainability should encourage leaders to rely on data and engage with professional networks.
RESEARCH BRIEF - When seeking to improve financial performance through corporate citizenship, a long-term perspective is vital. When firms attract long-term investors and invest in corporate citizenship, stock valuations increase by nearly 5 percent.
RESEARCH BRIEF - Consumers are more likely to support companies that communicate corporate citizenship in a manner that aligns with their cultures’ value systems.
RESEARCH BRIEF - Those companies that set corporate citizenship targets in executive compensation should evaluate and, if necessary, revise said targets to ensure that they are measurable, as only the use of quantitative corporate citizenship targets in executive compensation leads to stronger corporate citizenship performance.
RESEARCH BRIEF - Professionals of color are much more likely to leave their employer if they believe they are being paid unfairly or working in a poor diversity climate.