Report
Recap: FCLT Summit 2025
March 6, 2025
At FCLT Summit 2025, business and investment leaders developed practical solutions for creating long-term value amid unprecedented structural shifts in global capital markets.
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Firms that connect their purpose to their key stakeholder responsibilities are better able to deliver long-term value.
The role of companies in society is evolving as they face growing expectations that extend beyond delivering short-term shareholder returns. To thrive in the long term, companies must engage meaningfully with their key stakeholders—including employees, suppliers, communities, shareholders, and governments—whose needs must be factored into business decisions.
While many organizations acknowledge the importance of a multi-stakeholder approach, they often struggle to implement one. This inconsistency has led to skepticism regarding the credibility of firms that claim to prioritize a broader set of responsibilities. Although each company will have unique stakeholders and priorities, those that systematically connect their purpose to stakeholder responsibilities are better positioned to generate sustainable, long-term success.
Report
March 6, 2025
At FCLT Summit 2025, business and investment leaders developed practical solutions for creating long-term value amid unprecedented structural shifts in global capital markets.
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Report
March 21, 2023
A new report, in collaboration with CPP Insights Institute and the ESG Initiative at the Wharton School, explores the role of labour practices in corporate...
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Report
January 17, 2022
What does it take to earn a return from implementing a multi-stakeholder strategy and offer a rebuttal to skeptics? To answer this question, we turned...
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Report
June 21, 2021
Expectations of long-term investors have expanded well beyond usual notions of their core purpose to include their impact on markets, society, and the environment. The...
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Article
June 28, 2024
Despite short-term costs, employee ownership has the potential to create long-term value by improving firm performance and increasing buy-in.
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Article
April 22, 2024
Today, private sector executives from across the globe find themselves using the same word to mean different things. “Sustainability” has become shorthand for mitigating and...
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Article
April 28, 2023
To better understand the outcomes of a stakeholder-oriented approach, we conducted an empirical analysis comparing the characteristics and performance of companies pursuing such strategies to...
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Article
December 14, 2022
CPP Investments provides examples of why a focus on long-term outcomes and a multi-stakeholder approach to investing is a prerequisite to invest in the infrastructure...
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Article
July 28, 2022
Communities are an important stakeholder for many companies and play a key role in their operations. FCLTGlobal recently hosted a discussion to gain a...
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Article
January 19, 2022
Political uncertainty needn’t capsize an organization’s long-term strategy. Rather, through good governance and investing in stakeholder engagement, businesses can cut through the noise of what’s...
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Article
May 27, 2021
Expectations placed on investors are ever-changing, can emerge from any of the institution’s many constituents, and extend beyond matters of law, regulation, or contracts.
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Article
December 4, 2020
Around the world, investors are facing an array of potential responsibilities. These potential responsibilities extend beyond an investor’s fiduciary duty or stewardship requirements and are...
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Article
April 21, 2020
Amid unforeseen circumstances, how do companies prioritize their stakeholders?
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Article
January 28, 2020
A focus on stakeholders takes top billing, with a shift toward real action on climate and metrics
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Podcast
August 7, 2024
"Part of my mission in life [...] is to make the millions of students out there aware that there are these amazing organizations where you...
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Podcast
December 27, 2023
"It is a fascinating system, and in some ways it's an incredibly simple one. But what's grown from it is one of the most sophisticated,...
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Podcast
November 16, 2020
Chief Justice Leo Strine joins the Going Long podcast to discuss his views on stakeholder capitalism, varying global stances on ESG, the changing role of...
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Toolkit
March 14, 2022
Long-term companies take several key steps to operationalize their multi-stakeholder responsibilities. These steps must be taken in order and repeated regularly to be effective, and...
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Video
January 22, 2020
The shift towards stakeholder capitalism calls for a new vision of good environmental, social and corporate governance. What difficult decisions must chief executives take to...
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Video
January 22, 2020
From WEF 2020 in Davos, Sarah Williamson stresses the need to focus on all stakeholders, not just shareholders.
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