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The Enterprise Engagement Alliance has teamed up with TM Evolution, a compensation and work life people analytics company, to create a practical way for almost any size organization to analyze the impact of investments in all stakeholders consistent with the new European Union Corporate Sustainability Directive. Click here to view the demo or scroll down ... [ read more ]

A look at the history of the anti-ESG (environmental, social, governance) firestorm suggests a lot of it was the legitimate response to corporate greenwashing encouraged by corporate communications firms that failed to anticipate the backlash and the inevitable rabbit hole that opened after CEOs started speaking out on politics, social, and religious issues. Here’s an overview of what happened and how the damage is getting repaired.... [ read more ]

It is often difficult or impossible to track a fad or a new product to its source. This is one that that the author witnessed in the late 1970s on Cape Cod--the shop that arguably was the first to brand a sandwich wrap in the US. It’s a classic story of both the beauty and challenges of capitalism. ... [ read more ]

Marketing research can build authority and generate useful insights, but only when the methodology is transparent, the sample fits the claim, and the conclusions do not go beyond what the evidence can support.... [ read more ]

Quarterly earnings reports can strengthen accountability when companies explain them within a clearly defined purpose, long-term strategy, measurable objectives, and values supported by their shareholders and other stakeholders.... [ read more ]

The EEA Impact Academy complements traditional leadership development by teaching managers how to align all stakeholders, management practices, and performance measures around a common organizational or team goal.... [ read more ]

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WorldatWork’s 2026 State of Rewards report finds that employees may be satisfied with compensation and benefits while remaining disengaged, open to leaving and reluctant to recommend their employer.... [ read more ]

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A new Harvard Business Review article outlines a six-step process for turning frontline employee knowledge into practical improvements in productivity, customer experience, technology adoption, and organizational performance.... [ read more ]

The launch of The Village Confectionery demonstrates how a clear vision, authentic storytelling, community engagement, and a permission-based media platform can create extraordinary business momentum with little reliance on traditional paid advertising. It’s a case study in effective stakeholder management by a small company. ... [ read more ]

A new cross-industry analysis finds that the highest-scoring EEI company also delivered the strongest three-year stock performance in 58% of usable comparisons, with similar alignment in employee and customer ratings.... [ read more ]

Gallup’s latest global life-evaluation data suggests that most employees are not flourishing, creating a management challenge that goes far beyond HR and directly affects engagement, productivity, retention, customer experience, and national competitiveness.... [ read more ]

The EEA Enterprise Engagement Index suggests that journalists, analysts, boards, and investors should press CEOs not only on employee and customer satisfaction, but on whether those relationships are being converted into productivity, profitability, growth, and long-term value.... [ read more ]

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After more than four decades studying sales performance, customer loyalty, employee engagement, entrepreneurship, and organizational performance, I have observed a recurring problem in management: we spend enormous amounts of time discussing people as an organization's greatest asset, yet we have remarkably few practical ways to measure how effectively organizations convert human capital into business results.... [ read more ]

While many of the most visible advocates of stakeholder capitalism are men, some of its most compelling practitioners have been women who built successful organizations by focusing on employees, customers, communities, sustainability, and long-term value creation.... [ read more ]

Kaboom AI demonstrates how artificial intelligence can help organizations selling complex B2B solutions strengthen relationships by making permission and relationship marketing more intelligent, timely, and actionable.... [ read more ]

Research from Irrational Capital suggests that as artificial intelligence automates routine work, the companies best able to engage, motivate, and develop human talent may gain an even greater competitive advantage.... [ read more ]

Two new analytics tools focus on helping organizations create more value through people. ... [ read more ]

A new book from Dave Ulrich and leading HR experts strongly advocates for stakeholder value creation, but places greater emphasis on leadership, talent, and culture than more specifically on systematic stakeholder engagement. The era of stakeholder management has arrived in HR—the question is: how thoroughly does this address more specifically stakeholder engagement? ... [ read more ]

The expanding Enterprise Engagement Index database gives any organization a practical way to benchmark how effectively they convert people, customers, and growth into measurable financial performance.... [ read more ]

Such religious and secular figures as diverse as Confucius, Mohatma Gandhi, Pope Leo XIV, Stephen R. Covey, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, Prince El Hassan bin Talal, and the US faith-based capitalism movement have advocated for business principles similar to those of stakeholder capitalism pioneer R. Edward Freeman and others: creating value for all stakeholders may be both a moral imperative and a pathway to long-term business success. ... [ read more ]

The EEA is dedicated to providing organizations with as many free or low-cost tools as possible to enhance the impact and effectiveness of their stakeholder management practices. ... [ read more ]