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. Fri, 22 May 2026 11:32:50 +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 Introduction to ESG – The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu 32 32 Introduction to ESG https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2020/08/01/introduction-to-esg/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=introduction-to-esg https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2020/08/01/introduction-to-esg/#comments Sat, 01 Aug 2020 12:55:23 +0000 https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/?p=131385?d=20200801085523EDT Posted by Mark S. Bergman, Ariel J. Deckelbaum, and Brad S. Karp, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, on Saturday, August 1, 2020
Editor's Note:

Mark S. Bergman, Ariel J. Deckelbaum, and Brad S. Karp are partners at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP. This post is based on a recent Paul Weiss memorandum by Mr. Bergman, Mr. Deckelbaum, Mr. Karp, David Curran, Jeh Charles Johnson, and Loretta E. Lynch. Related research from the Program on Corporate Governance includes The Illusory Promise of Stakeholder Governance by Lucian A. Bebchuk and Roberto Tallarita (discussed on the Forum here) and Socially Responsible Firms by Alan Ferrell, Hao Liang, and Luc Renneboog (discussed on the Forum here).

Interest on the part of investors and other corporate stakeholders in environmental, social and governance (“ESG”) matters has surged in recent years, and the current economic, public health and social justice crises have only intensified this focus. ESG, at its core, is a means by which companies can be evaluated with respect to a broad range of socially desirable ends. ESG describes a set of factors used to measure the non-financial impacts of particular investments and companies. At the same time, ESG also provides a range of business and investment opportunities.

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