Resources
We conduct original research on the causes of short-term business decisions and work to find practical solutions.
Strategy | Article
17 October 2024 - For years, the corporate world was entrenched in the practice of providing quarterly earnings per share (EPS) guidance. The latest data shows it may finally be on its way out.
Strategy | Article
28 June 2024 - Despite short-term costs, employee ownership has the potential to create long-term value by improving firm performance and increasing buy-in.
Strategy | Report
9 April 2024 - We are now at a moment when global rivalry is running hot and support for globalization is cooling. The resulting opportunity set for investors is shrinking as global security and economic alliances rewire. This rewiring of globalization requires specific attention to strategy, governance, and integrated processes to bring geopolitical views into investment decision making. Doing this effectively requires deep integration between geopolitical and traditional investment analysis.
Strategy | Article
14 December 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 asset class.
Strategy | Article
15 November 2022 - With short-term pressures mounting, companies and investors are finding it more challenging than ever to focus on the long term.
Strategy | Article
2 August 2022 - FCLTGlobal reminds companies and their leaders that, despite the chop your ships are weathering, those who stay the course through uncertainty will be the ones ultimately rewarded. Looking at data from past market downturns, including amid global crises, businesses are likely to steer to calmer waters, even treasure, over the long term.
Strategy | Article
15 June 2022 - Buybacks are a recurrent topic of controversy, especially as guidelines seem to shift year to year and differ from country to country. In the US, the Biden administration put forth a new proposal, upping the ante after last year’s proposed 1% tax on buybacks (intended to raise billions in tax revenue). The White House’s most recent proposal would prevent executives from selling their shares for three years after repurchasing stock, in the hopes that this will quash the incentive to repurchase shares in the first place.
Climate, Investor-Corporate Engagement, Strategy | Report
31 May 2022 - New research suggests that companies could do more to bridge the gap between their climate change approach and their long-term value creation strategies.
Strategy | Article, Toolkit
24 May 2022 - Geopolitical risk is currently front and center for executive management and boards. The war in Ukraine and accompanying geopolitical disruptions are an action-forcing event for nearly every multinational company and investor, regardless of the size of the business or portfolio at risk.
Governance, Strategy | Toolkit
14 March 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 this document is a compilation of case studies and toolkits that demonstrate how these steps can be put into practice systematically across an organization.
Strategy | Report
17 January 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 toward empirical analysis, comparing the characteristics and performance of companies pursuing various stakeholder-oriented strategies.
Climate, Strategy | Article
12 October 2021 - Thanks to decades of advocacy, some very real climate-related disasters, and meaningful progress on the global policy and regulatory stage, climate consciousness is finally in vogue with mainstream companies and investors.