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HSG study: What major listed companies give and take (opens in a new tab)

VCr2026 LEADER Digital

The article examines VCr2026 findings for 1,000 listed firms across 47 countries, reporting that 58% create more value for others than they extract. Healthcare and technology lead the sector rankings. Nvidia achieves a positive balance but trails several competitors, illustrating how innovation can coexist with value extraction through market power and tax advantages. The article also highlights nature as the stakeholder bearing the greatest burden.

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  1. Value Creation Ratings Report 2025: How companies worldwide create real value (opens in a new tab)

    VCr2025 businessaktuell.ch

    The article presents VCr2025 as a framework for assessing how 1,000 listed firms across 44 countries create and transfer value. It highlights the report’s 102 metrics, differences between sectors, and the relationship between business models and national institutional conditions. Automotive companies lead the sector comparison, while Apple illustrates the coexistence of substantial Transfer-IN and Transfer-OUT. The publication explicitly credits the University of St.Gallen and the Foundation for Value Creation as its sources.

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  2. HSG introduces a global benchmark for corporate Value Creation (opens in a new tab)

    VCr2025 LEADER Digital

    LEADER reports on the expansion of VCr to 1,000 listed firms assessed using 102 metrics across 44 countries. It outlines sector and country differences, highlighting automotive companies’ performance and challenges associated with technology firms’ market power. Comments from Martin Nerlinger and Tomas Casas-Klett explain the framework’s purpose and the role of risk-taking in innovation and employment. The article closely follows the institutional announcement of VCr2025.

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  3. Sustainability must be measurable! (opens in a new tab)

    VCr2024 Schaffhauser Nachrichten

    In a guest opinion article, Martin Nerlinger argues that Sustainable Value Creation should guide corporate strategy beyond marketing and greenwashing. Drawing on VCr2024, developed with Tomas Casas-Klett, he discusses differences across automotive, technology, oil and gas, chemicals, and pharmaceuticals. He presents the framework as a practical basis for identifying sustainability strengths and weaknesses, directing investment, and making corporate impacts understandable to managers, investors, and society.

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  4. Value Creation for sustainability—or greenwashing? (opens in a new tab)

    VCr2024 stgallen24

    The article introduces the VCr2024 pilot, covering 122 listed firms across five sectors using 54 metrics. It explains how the framework assesses business models through Value Creation and value transfers, distinguishing value appropriated without being created from value created for others. Sector findings and comments from Martin Nerlinger and Tomas Casas-Klett illustrate the approach. The text substantially reproduces the university’s launch communication.

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  5. HSG report reveals companies’ contributions to Sustainable Value Creation (opens in a new tab)

    VCr2024 LEADER Digital

    LEADER covers the launch of VCr2024, presenting its assessment of 122 listed firms across five sectors. The article describes the use of 54 metrics to examine how business models create and transfer value. It highlights sector differences, the performance of companies in Japan and Germany, and the framework’s proposed contribution to greater sustainability transparency. Comments from the report’s editors explain Transfer-IN and Transfer-OUT.

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