Why business leaders must resist the anti-ESG movement
Business leaders are increasingly being exposed to the culture wars, with company decisions around issues like DEI, LGBTQ+ rights, abortion and even ESG investing being attacked by right-leaning politicians and pundits. Instead of retreating to the sidelines, Andrew Winston, one of the world’s leading thinkers on sustainable business strategy, argues in an article in the Harvard Business Review recently published that leaders cannot avoid these topics and that they have a business and moral obligation to address them head-on with courage.