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 ...

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. Maritime ports have long been engines of ...

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 ...

Years before the term metaverse was popularized by Mark Zuckerberg’s rebranding of Facebook to Meta in late 2021, Matthew Ball published a series of essays on what the metaverse is all about—and what ...

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.

Companies have been appointing chief sustainability officers (CSOs) at a brisk pace recently, and it’s no wonder. With net-zero deadlines on the horizon, investors increasingly want to understand the ...

So it should come as no surprise that those leaders are now being propelled to new heights. In December 2021, Leena Nair, Unilever’s CHRO, was named as the next leader of Chanel, swapping Dove soap ...

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 ...

Rethinking total reward strategies Pay, incentives, and benefits haven’t significantly changed for decades, but people’s preferences have. Employee compensation needs a rethink if companies are to ...

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 ...

Though many people are loath to admit it, except to perhaps friends, family, and trusted confidants, leadership is hellishly difficult. Faced with the ever-shifting variables of leadership, people ...