Corporate sustainability initiatives are most effective when sustainability principles have been integrated into the company’s governance and management processes and proactively and publicly embraced by the board of directors, which is responsible for oversight of the environmental and social...

Ethics and ethical behavior has always been a concern for managers; however, ethical issues have become even more important over the years beginning in the early 2000s when news of corporate scandals based on fraud, financial dishonesty and personal greed of senior executives emerged from major...

The idea of a separate seat among a company’s executive leadership dedicated to sustainability first emerged in the mid-2000s and since then companies have hired professionals to work with directors and chief executive officers to design and implement operational strategies and organizational...