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The Capitals Coalition is a global network that helps businesses recognize how their success is directly or indirectly supported by natural, social, and human capital—like clean air, skilled workers, and public trust. It offers practical frameworks, case studies, and tools to help companies measure, value, and better manage these dependencies for more sustainable, informed decisions.
This article distinguishes between pro-market policies that enhance competition – so businesses that create value are rewarded -- and pro-business policies that favor specific businesses or industries. It argues that government favoritism distorts competition, undermines innovation, reduces opportunity and weakens democratic accountability, urging policymakers to prioritize competitive neutrality and institutional integrity over industry capture.
Why this resource matters
It reflects CPR’s Responsibility principle, calling for businesses to “champion healthy market “rules of the game” that foster competition on the basis of quality, price and long-term value, minimizing costs externalized to other stakeholders and aligning private interests with the broader public good.”
This volume explores the promise of free markets to deliver prosperity and well-being—and the social, political, and institutional conditions required to sustain that promise. It shows why businesses have a stake in helping maintain those conditions through responsible political engagement.
This article discusses how businesses can thrive by achieving a net positive impact on people and the planet, and avoiding achieving returns by creating problems for people and planet. Calls on businesses to recognize that investing in healthy systems -- economic, civic and natural -- is the key to his positive impact.
PRI sets out to create the case for investors to encourage responsible corporate political engagement. PRI shares precedent-setting principles followed by detailing the risks faced from irresponsible political engagement practices (e.g. the revolving door), which burden companies, investors, and society alike.
This framework is a comprehensive guide for institutions to justly transition to net-zero emissions, including four core pillars and 20 building blocks that provide practical examples for implementation, with alignment to just transition assessment methodologies.
Joe Zammit‑Lucia argues that in today’s world, politics and business are deeply connected, and companies need strong “political antennae”—a keen understanding of societal values, regulations, and consumer expectations—to succeed. Drawing on global case studies, he shows how pressures from stakeholders, investors, and regulators require firms to embed political awareness into their purpose, strategy, and daily operations to build trust and resilience.
Outlines the flaws inherent in today’s ESG data and measurement, which have kept ESG analysis mostly disconnected from other financial or operational analysis of a given company. Explains the Total Value Framework as a process for measuring corporate externalities, providing a way to align capital allocation with total long-term value creation for stakeholders, shareholders and the business.
This report synthesizes perspectives from executives, investors, and scholars on the meaning and implementation of corporate purpose. It identifies areas of alignment and tension—particularly around stakeholder accountability, governance, and measurement—and highlights the gap between aspirational purpose statements and operational decision-making. It underscores the need to embed purpose into strategy, incentives, and oversight structures.
This report recognizes that the stakeholder environment has shifted for many companies to encompass a broader range of stakeholders, and provides thoughts on how companies can take a truly long-term view of stakeholder interests.
This report goes beyond diversity and inclusion to outline how a business's actions, products and services, have influence within the company, within the community, and more broadly in society. The report provides concrete recommendations for companies.