In this episode, CII General Counsel Jeff Mahoney interviews Shiva Rajgopol, the Kester and Byrnes Professor of Accounting and Auditing at Columbia Business School. Professor Rajgopol is the co-author of a recent research paper with Aneesh Raghunandan of the London School of Economics entitled “Do the Socially Responsible Walk the Talk?”
The paper examines data relating to signatory companies to the August 2019 Business Roundtable statement on a purpose of a corporation and how it relates to those companies whose stocks are held in large ESG funds.