What’s more, various studies point to a meaningful price premium for sustainable goods. In a survey of some 20,000 consumers by PwC in 2024, respondents said they’re willing to pay 9.7% above average ...

The last few years have brought real change. Balance sheets today have significantly more nontangible assets—intellectual property and digital capability, for example—than ever before. And a series of ...

Value-creating chief data officers: Cementing a seat at the top table In PwC’s second Chief Data Officer Study, we found more chief data officers appointed by the world’s leading companies—and ...

Three years ago, the senior managers of a company in an extractive industry decided to commission an audit of the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) metrics included in its annual report.

This interview is part of the Inside the Mind of the CxO series, which explores a wide range of critical decisions faced by chief executives around the world. In the late 1950s, Larsen & Toubro (L&T) ...

Today’s snow globe might contain a laptop or a smart phone, but beyond that, anything goes. The disruption of the past two years has proven that the nine-to-five physical office is out; it will be ...

The goal should be to master the connectivity between strategy and culture. They both should be anchored by capabilities—the “key activities in which you must invest disproportionately and perform ...

Though consensus-building is important, boards may be too inclined to seek harmony or conformity. This can lead to groupthink, a much-written-about challenge facing companies in which dissenting views ...

Marquis is an adventurer who’s spent much of her adult life trekking solo through some of the world’s most forbidding regions, from deserts to jungles to mountain ranges, living off the land and ...

Every product has a story. One of the major benefits of blockchain technology is that it allows parties to trace the origins and follow the journey of just about anything, enabling far greater ...

Disruption and the breadth of the value creation ecosystem are, in fact, connected. In recent months, as supply chains have faltered, channels to market have evolved, and companies’ roles in caring ...

There were significant differences of opinion, but after an intense discussion, the leadership team came to a consensus. The inclusive nature of the discussion, the use of a different kind of ...