Microsoft, Nvidia, Apple, Intel, and Alphabet receive the top five honors in Just Capital’s annual rankings of Stakeholder Capitalist companies. The companies are ranked based on the priorities of Americans surveyed on an ongoing basis by the Harris poll, focus groups, and online surveys, according to JUST Capital. Forbes recently held a webinar with top executives and board members from multiple companies to discuss Stakeholder Capitalism. Click here for a list of the top 100 and details on the methodology.
How companies invest in workers by far outranks the criteria on which companies should be measured, according to JUST Capital’s combination of surveys and focus groups involving thousands of Americans each year. The JUST 100 companies this year are judged based on: how they treat workers (41%); how a company supports its communities (21%); how a company treats its customers (15%); how a company delivers value to shareholders (15%); how a company reduces its environmental impact (9%).
The top 10 companies in the rankings are: Microsoft, Nvidia, Apple, Intel, Alphabet, JP Morgan Chase, Salesforce, AT&T, Cisco Systems, and Adobe.
In a
webinar hosted by Forbes.com to announce the annual top 100 rankings, senior executives shared their views on Stakeholder Capitalism and why they believe it will become the successor to Shareholder Capitalism.
Stakeholder Capitalists Believe They Do Better
Microsoft CEO
Satya Nadella says Stakeholder Capitalism is more profitable because it creates prosperous employees, distribution and supply chain partners and communities whose success in turn creates more opportunities.
Dan Schulman, CEO PayPal agrees: “Properly paid employees are more productive, provide better service, and increase profits.”
Steven Bertoni, VP, Senior Editor, Forbes, doesn’t see any tradeoffs. “By serving and investing in employees, customers, communities and the environment, corporations make investors happy too.”
Metrics are critical. “We have always thought it’s important to have a purpose for our company, what are we doing for our people, customers, and society as a whole…We are setting metrics to use toward our goals, and using robust, high-quality measures to do that. Without that, I don’t see how we can make sustainable change,” asserts
Ann Cairns, Executive Vice Chair, Mastercard
Crises Create Opportunities, Too
On crisis leadership,
Kenneth Chenault, former Amex chair says the keys to crisis leadership include: define reality, focus on your people, give hope, communicate, figure out how to stay liquid, understand your costs, and watch for opportunities for selective investments because crises accelerate change--digitalization will see huge growth.
Kenneth Frazier, Merck CE0: The private sector needs to be involved with the reinvention and rebuilding of our society and can profit by doing so. Investors get it, too, says Paul Tudor Jones, JUST Capital founder: “Markets now know that companies that focus on their employees, customers, the environment and communities perform better and contribute to a more just society.”
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