America's Most Responsible Companies 2020

摘要

COMPANIES, WE ALL KNOW, NEED TO MAKE A PROFIT TO prosper and survive. Making a buck, after all, is important to investors, employees and vendors. But over the years, executives have come to realize that they need to do much more. That is, by giving back to the communities they operate in and standing up as good neighbors and citizens. As one expert said in our opening essay (See page 12): "No public company in the world would last a week if the only people they cared about were shareholders." With that mind, we partnered with global data research firm Statista Inc. to publish our first ranking of America's Most Responsible Companies. As you will see from our description of the methodology, Statista worked from a universe of 2000 public companies to determine which firms were tops when it came to doing good. Here are the 300 best.