Profit Alone Isn’t Enough: How Modern Companies Create Long-Term Value
Session Summary: This session explores how chemical companies are rethinking the traditional shareholder-first model in favor of a broader, long-term approach that balances financial performance with environmental, social, and governance (ESG) priorities.
Attendees will gain insight into:
The Shift Beyond Shareholder Primacy: Why companies are moving toward a model that values employees, communities, and the environment alongside investors.
Sustainability as Strategy: How integrating ESG into core business decisions drives innovation, operational efficiency, and competitive advantage.
Impact on Chemical Industry Practices: Case studies showing how companies are reducing environmental footprint, adopting circular economy principles, and investing in green technologies.
Leadership & Governance Implications: How leaders balance financial returns with stakeholder expectations, navigate investor pressures, and embed ethical decision-making into corporate strategy.
Measuring Success: Tools and metrics for assessing long-term value creation beyond traditional financial indicators, including social impact, employee well-being, and community engagement.
Speaker
Maryanne Hauser
Maryanne Hauser is an Associate Partner at Bain & Company and has spent nearly a decade in management consulting advising executives at some of the world's leading chemicals companies. Her work spans commercial excellence, corporate strategy, sustainability, and M&A, and the common thread has always been helping clients drive lasting growth.
On sustainability, she has focused particularly on plastics circularity and biofuels, helping clients build investment theses and strategies and then activating those strategies with commercial teams. On organic growth, she has spent significant time on commercial excellence across the full toolkit – pricing, market segmentation, customer activation, and go-to-market transformation.
Before Bain, Maryanne worked in financial services. She holds an MBA from the Wharton School and a BA in Economics from Northwestern University and is based in Chicago.