Steve Strongin
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- Goldman Sachs10 min
Sustainable ESG Investing
This analysis distinguishes ESG investing as a strategic discipline focused on long-term value creation and risk mitigation rather than superficial sector exclusions. It emphasizes that anticipating social flashpoints, leveraging diverse management teams, and accelerating carbon sequestration technologies are critical for maintaining business continuity and shareholder returns. Furthermore, the discussion highlights how active governance strategies targeting management transitions can unlock significant value that passive investing often fails to capture during structural corporate changes.
- Goldman Sachs24 min
The Great Reset: A Framework for Investing After COVID-19
Goldman Sachs Senior Advisor Steve Strong identifies the pandemic as a transformative rule-changing event in his report *The Great Reset*, predicting a permanent economic shift driven by the adoption of resilient business models and "sticky" behavioral changes in remote work and digital health. The analysis forecasts a regulatory pendulum swing that will favor companies with built-in redundancy over efficiency, while simultaneously fragmenting consumer markets into distinct risk-based segments that demand tailored safety and social distancing measures. Ultimately, Strong cautions investors to look beyond immediate crisis survivors toward the upcoming innovation phase, where new entrants and retooled incumbents will dominate by creating superior, more resilient economic structures.
- Goldman Sachs17 min
Helping Small Businesses Grow: Views from 10,000 Small Businesses
Steve Strongin, Amanda Hindlian, John F.W. Rogers, Kevin McCarthy, Tyler Perry, Danny Meyer, Sarah Kauss, Wilbur L. Ross, Sara Blakely, Michael Bloomberg, Gina Raimondo, Rick Snyder, Marco Rubio, Lloyd Blankfein, Richard Branson, Warren Buffett
Over 100 small business owners across 18 states identified inconsistent regulations, labor shortages, and restricted capital access as critical barriers preventing economic growth and expansion. Participants detailed how bureaucratic complexity and frequent policy shifts force entrepreneurs to liquidate personal assets and divert resources from hiring to compliance, while survey data indicates that doubled financing availability would boost employment by 30%. To address these systemic issues, advocates propose establishing centralized credentialing systems and shifting toward cooperative compliance windows rather than punitive measures.