CSRHub Blog Research on ESG metrics and comments on sustainability best practice

Republished from Environmental Leader

Skytop Strategies will launch its fifth annual CSR Summit hosted in partnership with Nasdaq at their Entrepreneurial Center on April 17^th in San Francisco.

CSRHub’s CEO and co-founder Cynthia Figge will be giving a topic briefing on Data Obsessed: Does Data Really Drive Investment into CSR?  

CSR 5.0 presents the evolution of corporate social responsibility from its initial shared value paradigm to its current form. The program will track the growth of CSR as a sector, examine the multi-dimensional ways that CSR programs are implemented in corporations today, and present cutting-edge ideas that will shape the future of CSR as an industry.

For the full program, click here. 

Register using coupon code CSRHUB2019 to receive 35% off your registration: https://skytopstrategies.com/product/csr-5-0-conference-pass/

As a bonus, you may bring a colleague, peer, or client if you register before April 10^th.

 Cynthia Figge is a forerunner and thought leader in the corporate sustainability movement who co-founded EKOS International in 1996, one of the first consultancies integrating sustainability and corporate strategy. Cynthia is CEO and Cofounder of CSRHub. Cynthia has worked with major organizations including BNSF, Boeing, Coca-Cola, Dow Jones, and REI to help craft sustainability strategy integrated with business. She was an Officer of LIN Broadcasting/McCaw Cellular leading new services development, and started a new “Greenfield” mill with Weyerhaeuser. She serves as Advisor to media and technology companies, and served as President of the Board of Sustainable Seattle. Cynthia has an MBA from Harvard Business School. Cynthia is based in the Seattle area.

CSRHub is the largest ESG and sustainability rating and information platform globally. We aggregate 180M data points from 615+ data sources including 12 leading ESG analyst databases. Our patented algorithm aggregates, normalizes, and weights data to rate 18,000 companies in 132 countries across 136 industries. We track 97% of world market capitalization. We cover 12 subcategories of ratings and rankings across the categories of environment, employees, community and governance. We show underlying data sources that contribute to each subcategory’s ratings. CSRHub metrics are a consensus view (any 2 sources may have about a 30% correlation so we make sense of the disparate data). We tag companies for their involvement in 17 Special Issues. We provide Macro-enabled Excel dashboard templates, customizable dashboards, and an API. Our big data technology enables 85% full coverage of data across our rated companies and robust analyses. We provide historical ratings back to 2008.

Skytop Strategies will launch its ESG5 Summit on April 4th in New York. CSRHub Co-founder and CTO Bahar Gidwani will be speaking on Materiality: Aligning Materiality to Your Company’s Business Model.

The growing focus on the implementation of environmental, social and governance standards and best practices is driven by increasing scrutiny of the public markets, their analysts, and institutional investors; and growing emphasis on transparency and accountability in today’s global markets. As a result, capital markets now engage regularly in discussions on how to assess the value of ESG practices on overall company performance, working with companies that integrate ESG into their performance equation to quantify, qualify and assign added-value by experts making buy, sell or hold recommendations.

Engage with experts and learn how to apply ESG considerations to your company and your investments.

Materiality: Aligning Materiality to Your Company’s Business Model

Moderator:
David A Lubin, Co-Chairman and Managing Director, Constellation Research and Technology, former Co-Chairman and Managing Director, Renaissance, and Executive Chairman, Palladium
Panelists:
Bahar Gidwani, CFA, FSA, Co-founder & CTO, CSRHub
Cathy Hansell, Founder and President, Breakthrough Results
Richard F. McMahon, Jr., Senior Vice President, Energy Supply & Finance, Edison Electric Institute
Virgus Volertas, Senior Analyst | Corporate Governance, UAW Retiree Medical Benefits Trust

APRIL 4, 2019 
ROYALTON PARK AVENUE 
420 PARK AVE SOUTH 
NEW YORK, NY

For the full program, click here. Receive a 35% discount off the dated price using coupon code CSRHUB2019. Register today.

Bahar Gidwani has built and run large technology-based businesses for many years. Bahar holds a CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst) and was one of the first people to receive the FSA (Fundamentals of Sustainability Accounting) designation from SASB. Bahar worked on Wall Street with Kidder, Peabody, and with McKinsey & Co. He has founded several technology-based companies and is a co-founder of CSRHub, the world’s broadest source of corporate social responsibility information. He has an MBA from Harvard Business School and an undergraduate degree in physics and astronomy. He plays bridge, races sailboats, and is based in New York City.

CSRHub is the largest ESG and sustainability rating and information platform globally. We aggregate 180M data points from 610+ data sources including 10 leading ESG analyst databases. Our patented algorithm aggregates, normalizes, and weights data to rate 18,000 companies in 132 countries across 136 industries. We track 97% of world market capitalization. We cover 12 subcategories of ratings and rankings across the categories of environment, employees, community and governance. We show underlying data sources that contribute to each subcategory’s ratings. CSRHub metrics are a consensus view (any 2 sources may have about a 30% correlation so we make sense of the disparate data). We tag companies for their involvement in 17 Special Issues. We provide Macro-enabled Excel dashboard templates, customizable dashboards, and an API. Our big data technology enables 85% full coverage of data across our rated companies and robust analyses. We provide historical ratings back to 2008. 

CSRHub CTO and Co-Founder Bahar Gidwani will be speaking at Skytop Strategies Generating Alpha conference, in New York on February 13^th. Bahar will join a panel discussing Alpha from Impact: Identifying Opportunities in ESG.

Companies have begun to implement ESG practices to reshape how they create value. This value manifests itself through returns in the equity selection process, as valuation models emerge to demonstrate those returns for institutional investors who seek out companies with strong ESG practices and ratings.

The Generating Alpha 2019 program will address topline issues in the ways that allocators select investments through fund managers and through the advice of investment consultants.

This full-day discussion will include information on financial evaluations, portfolio allocations and how investment experts create portfolios using ESG factors as core drivers of value. The program will also address benchmarking (using indexes and other vehicles) to manage risk, volatility and other considerations facing institutional investors today.

FEBRUARY 13, 2019
EDELMAN
250 HUDSON ST
NEW YORK, NY

Alpha from Impact: Identifying Opportunities in ESG

Moderator: Paula Luff, Director, Sustainability and Impact, Inherent Group

Panelists:

• Kyle Balkissoon, Partner, Stance Capital
• Hernando Cortina, CFA, Director, Indexes & Analytics, JUST Capital
• Bahar Gidwani, CFA, FSA, Co-founder & CTO, CSRHub
• Jared Landaw, Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel, Barington Capital Group, L.P.Title

For the full program, click here.

Friends of CSRHub receive a 25% discount off registration using code CSRHUB2019.

As the corporate landscape evolves around global, social, environmental and economic change, Skytop Strategies works to facilitate discussion with executive-level corporate leaders, institution investors, stakeholders, reputable industry experts, and authoritative NGO/government agencies around corporate strategy. 

Bahar Gidwani has built and run large technology-based businesses for many years. Bahar holds a CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst) and was one of the first people to receive the FSA (Fundamentals of Sustainability Accounting) designation from SASB. Bahar worked on Wall Street with Kidder, Peabody, and with McKinsey & Co. He has founded several technology-based companies and is a co-founder of CSRHub, the world’s broadest source of corporate social responsibility information. He has an MBA from Harvard Business School and an undergraduate degree in physics and astronomy. He plays bridge, races sailboats, and is based in New York City.

CSRHub is the largest ESG and sustainability rating and information platform globally. We aggregate 180M data points from 605+ data sources including 10 leading ESG analyst databases. Our patented algorithm aggregates, normalizes, and weights data to rate 18,000 companies in 132 countries across 136 industries. We track 97% of world market capitalization. We cover 12 subcategories of ratings and rankings across the categories of environment, employees, community and governance. We show underlying data sources that contribute to each subcategory’s ratings. CSRHub metrics are a consensus view (any 2 sources may have about a 30% correlation so we make sense of the disparate data). We tag companies for their involvement in 17 Special Issues. We provide Macro-enabled Excel dashboard templates, customizable dashboards, and an API. Our big data technology enables 85% full coverage of data across our rated companies and robust analyses. We provide historical ratings back to 2008. 

CSRHub is honored to once again have our metrics included in the Drucker Institute Management Top 250 Rankings this year.

The Drucker Institute has brought together five dimensions of corporate performance—Customer Satisfaction, Employee Engagement and Development, Innovation, Social Responsibility and Financial Strength—to create a holistic perspective based on Peter Drucker’s core principles.

"As the Drucker Institute's corporate rankings and the related list featured in The Wall Street Journal, the 'Management Top 250,' hit their second year, we've started fielding a lot of calls from major companies wanting to know more about their scores and how they can improve on them," said Rick Wartzman, director of the Drucker Institute's KH Moon Center for a Functioning Society. "This makes it all the more essential that our data providers are rock solid and that the metrics we receive from them are unimpeachable. CSRHub is a hugely important resource for us in this way, as we feature its data in two of our categories—Customer Satisfaction and Social Responsibility. We're really thrilled to be partnering with CSRHub."

You can learn more about the 2018 measure on The Drucker Institute’s website at https://www.drucker.institute/programs/company-rankings/, with the full ranking of all 752 companies available at https://www.drucker.institute/2018-drucker-institute-company-ranking/.

To learn more about CSRHub, our ESG/CSR metrics or how you can improve your ESG scores, contact us here.

CSRHub is the largest ESG and sustainability rating and information platform globally. We aggregate 180M data points from 550+ data sources including 12 leading ESG analyst databases. Our patented algorithm aggregates, normalizes, and weights data to rate 18,000 companies in 132 countries across 136 industries. We track 97% of world market capitalization. We cover 12 subcategories of ratings and rankings across the categories of environment, employees, community and governance. We show underlying data sources that contribute to each subcategory’s ratings. CSRHub metrics are a consensus view (any 2 sources may have about a 30% correlation so we make sense of the disparate data). We tag companies for their involvement in 17 Special Issues. We provide Macro-enabled Excel dashboard templates, customizable dashboards, and an API. Our big data technology enables 85% full coverage of data across our rated companies and robust analyses. We provide historical ratings back to 2008.