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Shedding Some Light on the Murky World of ESG Metrics

A new study illustrates how a lack of universal standards and transparency across industries means ratings don’t really amount to much.

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Two years ago, researchers at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business started collecting data to determine the real social and environmental credentials of companies in the S&P 500.