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Thursday, March 29, 2018

Teleconference: Corporate Culture as a Driver of Shareholder Value

Start Date: 3/29/2018 12:00 PM EDT
End Date: 3/29/2018 1:00 PM EDT


Organization Name: The Council of Institutional Investors

Contact:
Kylund Arnold
Email: kylund@cii.org
Phone: 2028220800

At CII’s spring conference, a trio of corporate directors discussed the board’s oversight role in areas of culture risk, from sales practices to sexual harassment. This call explored the connection between culture and company performance, and the CEO’s role in shaping corporate culture.
 
Our guest speaker was Teresa Barger, co-founder and CEO of Cartica Management, a global asset manager that takes active stakes in emerging markets companies. Of necessity, Barger has been a close student of company culture over the more than two decades that she has been investing in emerging markets, where companies controlled by a family, founder or the state are the norm and enforcement of laws tends to be weak. In a recent paper, The Case for Culture: Higher Returns Through ESGC, she argues that asset managers need to start incorporating culture into stock selection in the same way many are integrating environmental, social and governance factors into investment analysis. Barger also urges investors to join forces to create a framework and better tools to assess corporate culture.

CII Deputy Director Amy Borrus moderated the discussion. CII Members can access a recording of this call in CII's Media Archive.

Online Registration

Registration is Closed
Closed: 3/29/2018 12:15 PM

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