Global companies' performance on ESG (environmental, social, and governance) issues is rapidly becoming more critical to their competitiveness, profitability, and share price. The Global 100 companies showcased here today have already demonstrated that sustainability premium, and we believe that they are positioned to reward their investors even more heavily in the future.


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Like ministers of information, consultants condense the message, smooth out the dissonances, unify t...
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Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your ange...
MATTHEW PRIOR
I don't think we can fix poverty without fixing housing, and I don't think we can address ho...
MATTHEW DESMOND
When you're a young man, a young boy, all you want to be is that action hero; you want to be the...
MATTHEW LEWIS
I'm trying to inform people, so I try to present them with accurate information.
MATTHEW YGLESIAS
He wanted to play accordion on something of mine and I said you can play accordion, but I want you t...
MATTHEW SWEET
To the factory farmer, in contrast to the traditional farmer with his sense of honor and obligation,...
MATTHEW SCULLY
I think there's a time in your life where you don't feel like you fit in. I think everyone h...
MATTHEW VAUGHN
I've been in a couple of weddings where the coolest people that were the most day before so mell...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY
I'm one of the most adaptable guys I know in as much as travelling is my favourite thing to do i...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY
Eve was not taken out of Adam's head to top him, neither out of his feet to be trampled on by hi...
MATTHEW HENRY
There's a gap between what I want to do, what I do on camera, and what gets edited. Right? So th...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY
There's a discipline. When you take someone's portrait, you don't have to take 50 photog...
MATTHEW MODINE
I had a realization in the midst of my happy marriage that I had kind of lost most of my friends - m...
MATTHEW WEINER
Sure, I can get a little bit jealous. The good part about jealousy is that it comes from passion. It...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY
Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
MATTHEW ARNOLD
My rule is to break one sweat a day.
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY
Though pleas'd to see the dolphins play, I mind my compass and my way.
MATTHEW GREEN
Wherever I was in the world, at the beginning of every consulting project, one thing was certain: I ...
MATTHEW STEWART
I would eventually leave the business in 1999 to work full-time as a writer, but during the previous...
MATTHEW STEWART
You don't have to be a Brad Pitt look-alike hero just to be courageous and help out your friends...
MATTHEW LEWIS
None so deaf as those that will not hear. None so blind as those that will not see.
MATTHEW HENRY
I have a need to make these sorts of connections literal sometimes, and a vehicle often helps to do ...
MATTHEW BARNEY
I know when I grew up, it was, if it was daylight outside, get outside. Well, now, with the technolo...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY
There aren't many things that are universally cool, and it's cool not to litter. I'd nev...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY
Poverty is a relationship that involves a lot of folks, rich and poor alike. I was looking for somet...
MATTHEW DESMOND
The texture and hardship of poverty and eviction is something that I think left the deepest impressi...
MATTHEW DESMOND
It takes a good amount of time and money to establish a home. Eviction can erase all that.
MATTHEW DESMOND
I think that we value fairness in this country. We value equal opportunity. Without a stable home, t...
MATTHEW DESMOND
When I want to understand a problem, I want to understand it from the ground level.
MATTHEW DESMOND
Payday loans are but one of many financial techniques - from overdraft fees to student loans subsidi...
MATTHEW DESMOND
Libraries are not just places where people go read a book, but places where an immigrant goes to tak...
MATTHEW DESMOND
There were evictions that I saw that I know I'll never forget. In one case, the sheriff and the ...
MATTHEW DESMOND
A community that sees so clearly its own disadvantage or its own hardships also has a harder time se...
MATTHEW DESMOND