ESG Emphasis Evolution, Competitor Benchmarking, and Performance Prediction at Your Fingertips
In the ESG Initiative at the Wharton School’s Research Spotlight series, we highlight research by Wharton and Penn faculty, doctoral students, and researchers whose work focuses on innovations and applications of environmental, social, and governance factors in business.
This month, we’re highlighting the ESG Emphasis Finder, a powerful web application to help researchers, executives, and investors who wish to gain comprehensive insights into how much companies emphasize material and non-material ESG and how it changes over time. It allows users to understand how firms are positioned against each other on these dimensions within each industry, and check for the estimated firm value impact of changing ESG emphasis. Explore the tool below and read the research paper it is based on.
Meet the Research Team
Sonam Singh
Sonam Singh is an Assistant Professor of Marketing at University of South Florida’s Muma College of Business in Tampa, Florida. She has a unique blend of expertise in marketing strategy and machine learning. Her research revolves around the exploration of cutting-edge marketing strategy issues through the application of advanced techniques, particularly in the field of natural language processing (NLP). With over a decade of industry experience, Sonam has worked in business advisory roles for Fortune 100 companies across various sectors worldwide, including USAA (USA), BBC (London), OCBC Bank (Singapore), and CBA (Australia).
Ashwin Malshe
Ashwin Malshe is an Associate Professor of Marketing at the University of Texas at San Antonio. His substantive specialization is in determining the financial value of marketing strategies, and his methodological domain is in the analysis of observational data using statistics, econometrics, and machine learning methods. Dr. Malshe’s current research uses large language models to extract information from companies’ financial statements. His research has been published in several academic and practitioner journals.
Yakov Bart
Yakov Bart is a Professor of Marketing and Thomas E. Moore Faculty Fellow at Northeastern University’s D’Amore-McKim School of Business. Yakov has done research, teaching, and consulting throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. His research examining the marketing implications of new digital technologies and business models has been funded by NSF, Amazon, Google, MSI, WPP, and published in leading marketing and management journals. His recent work is focused on the critical nexus of business and grand societal challenges, examining corporate responses to gender and racial inequalities, and the impact of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors on various stakeholders.
Serguei Netessine
Serguei Netessine is Senior Vice Dean for Innovation and Global Initiatives and Dhirubhai Ambani Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He has lived, taught, and worked in the USA, Russia, France, and Singapore. His current research focuses on business model innovation and operational excellence, and he has worked on these topics with numerous organizations worldwide. He is a Founding Member of Responsible Research in Business & Management Network, a Scholar at Amazon, and a World Economic Forum council member.