The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu The leading online blog in the fields of corporate governance and financial regulation. Sat, 18 Apr 2026 11:30:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.8 https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/cropped-photography-4-e1706898544564-1-32x32.png Running the Risks: How Corporate Boards Can Oversee Environmental, Social And Governance Issues – The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu 32 32 Running the Risks: How Corporate Boards Can Oversee Environmental, Social And Governance Issues https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2019/11/25/running-the-risks-how-corporate-boards-can-oversee-environmental-social-and-governance-issues/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=running-the-risks-how-corporate-boards-can-oversee-environmental-social-and-governance-issues https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2019/11/25/running-the-risks-how-corporate-boards-can-oversee-environmental-social-and-governance-issues/#comments Mon, 25 Nov 2019 14:21:25 +0000 https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/?p=124429?d=20191210133719EST Posted by Veena Ramani and Hannah Saltman, Ceres, on Monday, November 25, 2019
Editor's Note:

Veena Ramani is Senior Program Director, Capital Markets Systems and  Hannah Saltman is Manager, Governance at Ceres. This post is based on their Ceres report. Related research from the Program on Corporate Governance includes Socially Responsible Firms by Alan Ferrell, Hao Liang, and Luc Renneboog (discussed on the Forum here).

As the risks from environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues such as climate change, water scarcity and human rights become more apparent, and with growing investor attention and action on ESG issues, it is increasingly important for corporate boards to understand how these issues affect business strategy and performance. Impacts from these issues can be financial, material, and can spread across multiple areas of a business. No longer off in the future or merely hypothetical, many of these impacts are being felt now across almost every sector of the economy.

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