Research Guides: Sustainable Business: Surveys & Rankings

Tools for Tracking Company Misconduct

Violation Tracker
Provides a wide-ranging database on corporate misconduct, including 512,000 civil and criminal cases.
CorpWatch: Gulliver Database
Database of global corporate wrongdoing.
Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
Tracks CSR news for industries, countries, and "the positive and negative impacts of over 20,000 companies worldwide."

Carbon Disclosure Project
The gold standard of environmental reporting with the richest and most comprehensive dataset on corporate and city action.
B Corporation Directory
Directory of businesses that meet the highest standards of verified social and environmental performance, public transparency, and legal accountability.
Good on You Brand Ratings
Trusted source of sustainability ratings for fashion.

100 Best Corporate Citizens
CR Magazine's 2022 ranking of Russell 1,000 companies on ESG performance.
America's Most Responsible Companies
Newsweek's 2021 list of 399 responsible companies.
Ethisphere's World's Most Ethical Companies
3BL Media's 2022 evaluation of the largest public U.S. companies on ESG transparency and performance according to 8 pillars.
Corporate Knights Global 100
Index of the world's most sustainable corporations based on performance indicators of sustainability.
Forest 500
Database that ranks the most influential companies, and financial institutions in forest risk commodity supply chains.