Research guides - Doing ESG research at INSEAD

Accessible through LSEG Workspace (formerly Refinitiv)

ASSET4 provides professional investors and corporate executives access to the world's largest database of ESG information and the analysis tools to integrate that information into their everyday decision making.

It provides ESG data on over 1,000 private companies and 13,000+ listed companies including many of the primary, global and some regional indices like MSCI World, MSCI Europe, STOXX 600, NASDAQ 100, Russell 1000, S&P 500, FTSE100, ASX 300 and MSCI Emerging Market. In addition, LSEG Workspace offers anti-takeover defense profiles on 11,000+ public companies with 12,000+ Poison Pill “Events". The information is manually collected and audited by ESG specialists based on publicly available sources such as company websites, annual reports and corporate social responsibility (CSR) reports.

This resource provides in-depth coverage across 630+ ESG data points with history going back to FY2002. They also provide 20+ years of history on over 2.5 million officers and director, representing 1.9 million unique people from 50,000 public and 150,000 private companies.

• Environmental factors – energy used, water recycled, CO2 emissions, waste recycled, spills and pollution controversies, etc.

• Social factors – employee turnover, injury rate, accidents, training hours, female employees, donations, health & safety controversies, etc.

• Corporate governance factors – executive compensation, board experience, board diversity, anti-takeover devices, compensation controversies, etc.

LSEG Workspace functions:

• Type ESG in the search box,

• Or search for a company in the search box, and go to ESG tab for the overview

LSEG Workspace terminals are available in the Research & Learning Hubs only. Access LSEG Workspace in the Doriot Research & Learning Hub using the dedicated PC on the ground floor. In Tanoto Research & Learning Hub, use the designated computer in the Financial & Research Data Circle (INSEAD SSO required). 

Faculty & Research Staff: You can request a 1-month remote login, but please note that the number of logins is very limited.

Contact us for further information.

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Accessible through WRDS 

Audit Analytics contains audit, regulatory and disclosure intelligence.
Includes the following data modules: 

- Accounting and Oversight
- Audit and Compliance
- Corporate and Legal
- Other Independent Audit (non-public entities)
- European Module

 You must register for a WRDS account. 

Bloomberg collects data on some companies, to access the information:

• Type your company's ticker

• Then, hit the yellow EQUITY key

• Type FA ESG and hit the green key

Other Bloomberg functions:

• Use ESG KPIs Overview [ESG <GO>]

• Use ESG Peer Group Analysis [RV ESG <GO>]

• Use ESG Dashboard [BI BESG <GO>]

See
Bloomberg ESG brochure (key functions)
Bloomberg ESG workflow

Bloomberg terminals are available in Doriot & Tanoto Research & Learning Hubs only. In the Tanoto Research & Learning Hub, use the designated computer in the Financial & Research Data Circle (INSEAD SSO required).

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A database on board composition with biographical information on Board Members, Senior Managers and Disclosed Earners around the world. BoardEx currently contains information on over 26,000 company boards and 1.2 million individuals – board directors and senior managers. The coverage consists of 4,700 UK and 15,000 US public company boards and a further 25,000 companies, split between Continental Europe, Australia, Asia Pac and the rest of the world. 

Span: 1999-present for selected companies.

 You must register for a WRDS account. 

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Dealroom.co is global data & software platform, providing intelligence about start-ups, innovation, venture capital investments and entire tech ecosystems. They track over 2,400,000 companies, 1,500,000 start-ups across the globe and more than 400,000 transactions and funding rounds. 

Start-ups screening option “Impact & Diversity” tab: it offers a selection of filters based on impact goals, such as no poverty (#1), climate action (#13), zero hunger (#2), gender equality (#5), life below water (#14), sustainable cities and communities (#11) and more.

Companies Screening > Advanced Filters > Impact & Diversity tab

 You need to create your account first:

1. Create your account at https://app.dealroom.co/register using your INSEAD email.
2. Activate your Premium content by filling out this form (your Premium account will be activated within 48 hours)

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Euromonitor's Sustainability module has six different research components:

• Brand Claims Tracker
• Product Claims Tracker
• Quarterly Product Claims and Price Tracker:
  Track the number of SKUs/products with different sustainability claims from quarter to quarter and compare the price positioning for each claim across 15 countries globally
• Voice of the Consumer: Sustainability Survey
• Voice of the Industry: Sustainability Survey

• Analysis section:

  - Sustainability briefings
  - Claims Reports
  - Country Reports
  - Case Studies  
   

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From an ESG perspective, Pitchbook has three main resources available:

First, because of their relationship to their sister company, Sustainalytics, they are able to provide insights on ESG risk scores for public companies covered by Sustainalytics (see their ESG Risk Scores). 

Second they also tag impact as an investment preference. As such, users can screen for investors/funds who have stated a preference for a specific impact category.

Third, as part of their “Trade Associations” field, they also tag investors who have been identified as being signatories of the UN’s “Principles of Responsible Investment” (PRI).  These would need to be identified by users via filtering from an Investors & Funds Search.

At the prompt, click on 'Create an Account'. Upon first registration, click the link in the email you received to create a new password for Pitchbook.

Pitchbook publishes reports focusing on Sustainable Investing and has also created a Workspace which contains curated content (including updated lists of SFDR Article 8 and Article 9 funds, as well as webinars/podcasts)

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Environmental, social, and governance data on public and private companies, from all countries and sectors.
World’s largest ESG coverage of 230,000+ public and private companies and 65,000+ infrastructure projects across all sectors, and regions, including emerging and frontier markets.

Daily point-in-time data on 102 ESG factors with consistent methodology since 2007 

First-time users must request an individual account directly from the WRDS site by clicking on the "Register for a WRDS Account" link.

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Climate Analytics : Through company-level analysis, assess exposure to seven climate change physical risk indicators, analyze exposure to carbon pricing risk under different future climate change scenarios and evaluate alignment with the Paris Agreement goal to limit global warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius from pre-industrial levels.

ESG Scores: An environmental, social and governance dataset that provides company level, dimension level, and criteria level scores based on the S&P Global Corporate Sustainability Assessment (CSA) process and publicly available sources.

Trucost Environmental: Measures environmental impact across key dimensions for over 15,000 companies to assess environmental costs, identify, and manage environmental and climate risk as well as conduct peer and portfolio analysis from a climate and environmental perspective.

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Browse the INSEAD Case Publishing website (see the Responsability tab)

INSEAD Members and current students: log in using your INSEAD credentials to view/download inspection copies at no cost.

Explore our selection in the catalogue.

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Articles from 2,200 journals published by Elsevier, covering economics, business, management, computing, engineering and technology as well as the physical, social and behavioural sciences. ScienceDirect is the world's leading source for scientific, technical, and medical research. 

Span: Full-text available from 1995 onwards.

User's Quick Start Guide

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Citation indexes covering over 15,000 journals in the Sciences, Social Sciences and Arts and Humanities.

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Abstracts from over 600 scholarly journals and general interest publications about the environment.

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Interdisciplinary abstract and citation database.

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Nature is a weekly international journal publishing the finest peer-reviewed research in all fields of science and technology.

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Science is a leading outlet for scientific news, commentary, and cutting-edge research.

 

•  CorporateRegister.com is a collection of 130,000+ corporate responsibility reports from 21,000+ organizations. Requires registration (free).
   
• The Sustainabiliay Institute by ERM The purpose of the Institute is to define, accelerate and scale sustainability performance by developing actionable insights for business. Latest sustainability report