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Creating Sustainable Businesses through Social Intrapreneurism
Authors: Grayson, David; Spitzeck, Heiko; Alt, Elisa; McLaren, Melody
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Doughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility, Cranfield School of Management
Publication Year: 2013
This Occasional Paper explores the “enabling environment” for social intrapreneurs and identifies key factors that enable (and disable) innovation...
Sustainable Pay: How TSX 60 Companies Compensate Executives for Sustainability Performance
Author: Strandberg, Coro
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Strandberg Consulting
Publication Year: 2013
Sustainability is an important global business driver and is making its way into corporate boardrooms. Mounting evidence shows firms that invest in improved sustainability practices outperform their competitors. There is growing awareness that emerging sustainability risks can have a material impact on company performance. Recognizing these links, companies increasingly integrate sustainability performance objectives and targets into their performance management systems.
Breakthrough: Business Leaders, Market Revolutions
Authors: Elkington, John; Braun, Susie
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Volans Ventures Ltd.
Publication Year: 2013
Business is increasingly critical in tackling the world’s great environmental, social and governance challenges. And at the heart of business sits the C-Suite, the grouping of senior executives who direct the enterprise. Breakthrough is addressed to them – and to those who advise them.
Overcoming Short-Termism within British Business: The Key to Sustained Economic Growth
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Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: The Labour Party, UK
Publication Year: 2013
This Review looks at ‘short-termism’ within British business: the pressure to focus on short-term results to the possible detriment of the long-term health of a company, or even a whole industry. The investigation confirmed that short-termism constrains the ambition of UK business, holding back its development and inhibiting economic growth...
Power Forward: Why the World’s Largest Companies are Investing in Renewable Energy
Author: David Gardiner & Associates
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: David Gardiner & Associates, LLC
Publication Year: 2012
Companies are investing in renewable energy because it makes good business sense: renewable energy helps reduce long-term operating costs, diversify energy supply and hedge against market volatility in traditional fuel markets. Through two dozen interviews with Fortune and Global 100 executives and analysis of public disclosures, the report finds that clean energy practices are becoming standard procedures for some of the largest and most profitable companies in the world, including AT&T, DuPont, General Motors, HP, Sprint, and Walmart...
Transparency in Corporate Reporting: Assessing the World's Largest Companies
Author: Kowalczyk-Hoyer, Barbara
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Transparency International
Publication Year: 2012
This study analyses the transparency of corporate reporting on a range of anticorruption measures among the 105 largest publicly listed multinational companies. Together these companies are worth more than US$11 trillion and touch the lives of people in countries across the globe, wielding enormous and far reaching power.
Building an Inclusive Green Economy for All: Opportunities and Challenges for Overcoming Poverty and Inequality
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Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Poverty-Environment Partnership
Publication Year: 2012
Examples of the green economy in practice show great potential for delivering a “triple bottom line” of job–creating economic growth coupled with environmental protection and social inclusion. However, there are significant barriers to realizing this potential on a large scale. To build an inclusive green economy that is equitable and sustainable will require carefully designed policies and targeted investments that enable low and middle-income countries and the poor to contribute to and benefit from the transition...
Greening the Supply Chain: Best Business Practices and Future Trends
Author: Knowledge@Wharton
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Knowledge@Wharton
Publication Year: 2012
The more corporations around the globe focus on sustainability, the more they realize that their greatest challenges and opportunities often lie outside their own offices and manufacturing plants. To make a truly significant lifecycle leap, large companies have to work on greening their supply chains…
Sustainable Capitalism
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Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Generation Investment Management LLP
Publication Year: 2012
Ben Franklin famously said, “You may delay, but time will not, and lost time is never found again.” We have the opportunity to rebuild for the long term and an obligation to seize it. Sustainable Capitalism will create opportunities and rewards but it will also mean challenging the pernicious orthodoxy of short-termism...
State of Green Business Report 2012
Author: Makower, Joel
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: GreenBiz.com
Publication Year: 2012
This free, downloadable report measures 20 aspects of environmental performance, from carbon emissions to paper use and recycling, and attempts to answer the question, "Are we bringing a green economy into being?”
Thirsty Planet – Business Responses to Water Scarcity
Authors: Rapacioli, Sandra; Malone, Roger
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Chartered Institute of Management Accountants
Publication Year: 2012
Water scarcity is not simply a social and environmental issue but an economic one. Financial impacts are a critical part of water risk evaluation. It is therefore essential that management accountants understand the business risks and potential impacts on company performance posed by water scarcity.
The Business of Innovating: Bringing Low-Carbon Solutions to Market
Author: Hargadon, Andrew
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Pew Center on Global Climate Change
Publication Year: 2011
The long-term effects of a warming climate are enormously difficult to predict. In the near term, however, new policies, technologies, and market preferences are already altering the competitive landscape of entire industries. That is creating opportunities for companies that effectively produce and manage low-carbon innovations in their markets—and threatening those that, by choice or circumstance, do not.
The Future of Fish in Asia
Authors: Blinch, Jenny; McCarron, Benjamin; Yewdall, Katie
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Responsible Research
Publication Year: 2011
Many investors now have policies relating to climate change, ethics and the environment. Few, however, have extended their policy to the sustainability of seafood sourcing, despite the fact that marine products are a key raw material for industries as diverse as agriculture, retail, pharmaceuticals, and pet food.
The Purpose of the Corporation in Business and Law School Curricula
Author: West, Darrell
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: The Brookings Institution
Publication Year: 2011
For most of American history, businesses were run to provide livelihoods and “reasonable” profit. In the last few decades, though, business and society in general have moved toward emphasizing profit maximization and individual self-interest. The shift from “reasonable profit” to profit maximization has significant implications for corporate behavior and government regulation.
The Energetic Society: In Search of a Governance Philosophy for a Clean Economy
Author: Hajer, Maarten
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency
Publication Year: 2011
To combine economic growth and a pleasant environment, society needs to scale back its resource use and the ensuing pressures on the environment, by a factor of five. The challenge is to do more with less; something for which there is no instant solution. Innovation will be required and may be stimulated by a government that sets clear objectives. This involves a number of key elements, such as promoting a motivating perspective that would stimulate people, introducing dynamic regulations that reward innovation and remove restrictive rules, and being open to learning from society.
Employees Matter
Author: Broughton, Anne Claire
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: SJF Institute
Publication Year: 2011
Increasing numbers of businesses view their employees not as a mere cost but as invaluable contributors for business success. These firms are implementing strategies to fully engage employees at all levels. The Employees Matter report identifies sixteen fast growing entrepreneurial firms that employ employee ownership and engagement strategies which they perceive as directly linked with improved business performance. Eight other notable companies with key lessons to share are included as sidebar profiles.
Responsible Investment in Vietnam
Authors: Carmody, Lucy; Nguyen, Veronique; Brown, Michelle
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Responsible Research
Publication Year: 2011
There is a general lack of coherent information available to investors in Vietnam on both sustainability context issues and specific company environment, social and governance criteria, such as community investment, emissions, water use, employee health and welfare and diversity and independence of boards. This shortage of information continues to hold back responsible investment in the country.
Impact Investing in Emerging Markets
Author: Arosio, Marco
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Responsible Research
Publication Year: 2011
Impact investments offer a new approach in the way that they reduce the imbalance in the distribution of wealth between a company’s ownership and the community in which it operates, while at the same time being respectful of the natural environment and its resources. In addition, these structures are readily applicable in the existing economic system.
Solving the Dilbert Paradox
Author: Adler, Richard
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: The Aspen Institute Communications and Society Program
Publication Year: 2011
This report is the result of the 2010 Aspen Institute Roundtable on Talent Development, and details how some organizations are experimenting with ways to improve organizational learning, collaboration, and access to knowledge and ideas outside the corporate hierarchy.
Feeding Asia
Authors: McCarron, Benjamin; Carmody, Lucy; Dodge, Laura
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Responsible Research
Publication Year: 2011
The dramatic food price rallies of 2010, echoing the surges and attendant social unrest of 2008, provide the context for this analysis of the challenges of feeding Asia over the coming decades.
The Future of Work: What It Means for Individuals, Businesses, Markets and Governments
Author: Bollier, David
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: The Aspen Institute Communications and Society Program
Publication Year: 2011
The Future of Work examines the challenges to conventional notions of work and organization brought on by new digital technologies and trends. As the velocity of change increases, institutions and individuals must adapt.
Inclusive Capitalism for the American Workforce: Reaping the Rewards of Economic Growth through Broad-based Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing
Authors: Freeman, Richard B.; Blasi, Joseph; Kruse, Douglas L.
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Center for American Progress
Publication Year: 2011
What can be done to reverse the economic disparity in our nation and restore prosperity for all? This paper lays out a policy reform that will help restore the link between economic growth and the earnings of workers so that the recovery re-establishes a prosperous middle class. The reform encourages firms to develop broad-based incentive compensation systems that link employee earnings to the performance of the firm. This reform would give employees access to the capital- related earnings of their companies comparable to that of the senior executives who run these firms.
Valuing Water: How Can Businesses Manage the Coming Scarcity?
Authors: Initiative for Global Environmental Leadership; Knowledge@Wharton
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Knowledge@Wharton
Publication Year: 2011
Water is a paradoxical commodity: It seems free and plentiful, yet its supply is under tremendous strain. But while objectives like being "water neutral" and using "footprinting" -- tracking the use of water throughout the supply chain -- are ambitious, what is being done to achieve them?
Overcoming the Barriers to Long-term Thinking in Financial Markets
Authors: Curran, Ruth; Chapple, Alice
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Forum for the Future
Publication Year: 2011
Many sources now show that the balance of investment in the market as a whole has moved too far towards short-termism. This may not deliver the best outcomes for the investor, either from a financial or from a wider social and environmental perspective.
United States Peace Index
Author: The Institute for Economics and Peace
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: The Institute for Economics and Peace
Publication Year: 2011
The United States Peace Index (USPI) is the first in a series of national peace indices that builds on the work of measuring and understanding the fabric of peace, initiated with the Global Peace Index. The USPI ranks the 50 states by their levels of peacefulness, utilizing a methodology based on indicators measuring the absence or presence of violence in society, with data obtained from U.S. Government sources.
New Dimensions of Peace – Society, Economy and the Media
Author: The Institute for Economics and Peace
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: The Institute for Economics and Peace
Publication Year: 2011
The 2011 Global Peace Index Discussion Paper sets out to explain how the environments that shape peace are also the same environments that create the appropriate conditions for social sustainability.
2011 Global Peace Index
Author: Institute for Economics and Peace
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports; Web Sites
Source: Institute for Economics and Peace
Publication Year: 2011
Peace is one of the most used and esteemed words in the human vocabulary. The most peaceful societies have higher per capita income, higher levels of well-being, more freedom, perform better at sustainability, and appear to have a more equitable distribution of social spending. Yet if we wish to create peace then we must first pose the question; "what do we know about peace?” The Institute for Economics and Peace, in conjunction with the Economist Intelligence Unit and with the guidance of an international team of academics and peace experts, has compiled the Global Peace Index.
Issues for Responsible Investors: Hong Kong Real Estate
Author: Lewis, Rebecca
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Responsible Research
Publication Year: 2010
Shareholders in Hong Kong, and around the world, are increasingly seeking real estate investments that take environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues into account to generate sustainable returns, better buildings and stronger communities. Indeed, from a risk mitigation standpoint, proactive ESG management has enabled Hong Kong’s leading property companies to respond more quickly and effectively to a range of new measures introduced by the government during 2010, including the introduction of mandatory building energy codes and legislation on the responsible marketing of properties.
Issues for Responsible Investors: Forestry in Asia
Authors: Cheng, Billy; Le Clue, Sophie
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Responsible Research
Publication Year: 2010
This report attempts to outline the environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues that responsible investors should consider when looking at the forestry sector and, by association, the pulp and paper industry in East, South and Southeast Asia.
Sustainability in Asia: ESG Reporting Uncovered
Authors: Read-Brown, Alex; Bardy, Florent; Lewis, Rebecca
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Responsible Research
Publication Year: 2010
The 2010 ASRTM highlights the current leadership position of corporate Korea on environment, social and governance reporting, with Chinese companies found to be the poorest disclosers. In general, companies in Asia scored better on Governance indicators compared to the Environment or Social categories, with at least some level of disclosure even amongst the laggards. For much of our universe, Governance was the only sustainability reporting of any kind and even that was mostly due to regulation or stock exchange listing requirements.
The Future of Finance
Authors: Turner, Adair; Haldane, Andrew; Woolley, Paul; Wadhwani, Sushil; Goodhart, Charles; Smithers, Andrew; Large, Andrew; Kay, John; Wolf, Martin; Boone, Peter; Johnson, Simon; Layard, Richard
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: London School of Economics and Political Science
Publication Year: 2010
The financial crash of 2008-9 has been the most damaging economic event since the Great Depression – affecting the lives of hundreds of millions of people. The most immediate problem now is to prevent a repeat performance.
Best Current Practices in Purchasing: The Apparel Industry
Author: As You Sow
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: AsYouSow.org
Publication Year: 2010
This report presents how apparel industry leaders have made changes to their internal purchasing practices and corporate structures as part of the continued efforts to improve factory working conditions.
Issues for Responsible Investors: Beverages in Asia
Author: Lewis, Rebecca
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Responsible Research
Publication Year: 2010
This report provides an overview of environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues in the beverage sector in Asia. The issues that we highlight are those we view as the most material to companies and which pose the biggest threats to their operations, brands, reputation and profitability.
Water for Business: Initiatives Guiding Sustainable Water Management in the Private Sector
Author: World Business Council for Sustainable Development
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: World Business Council for Sustainable Development
Publication Year: 2010
Every business depends and impacts on water resources. Some use it to process raw materials and manufacture goods. Some use it for cooling and cleaning. For others, it is a central ingredient in the goods they produce, or it is required to consume the product they sell. The future of business depends on the sustainability of water resources, which are increasingly under pressure.
Green Evolution: Managing the Risks, Reaping the Benefits
Author: Knowledge@Wharton
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Knowledge@Wharton
Publication Year: 2010
Many sustainability efforts can more than pay for themselves, both financially and with image-building benefits, according to an increasing number of organizations...
The Employee Ownership Effect: A Review of the Evidence
Author: Matrix Evidence
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Employee Ownership Association
Publication Year: 2010
The report is a rigorous study of the available international evidence into how companies with significant employee ownership perform, on a range of key business indicators.
Issues for Responsible Investors: Water in China
Authors: Doré, Dave; Peiyuan, Guo; Nette, Anna-Sterre; An, Jiali
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Responsible Research
Publication Year: 2010
This report focuses on the rapidly developing importance of water as a material factor in investment analysis and action within China.
Fashion Futures 2025: Global Scenarios for a Sustainable Fashion Industry
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Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Forum for the Future, Levi Strauss & Co.
Publication Year: 2010
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If we understand what the future may hold we can prepare for it, spot promising new ventures and even help shape the direction it takes...
Model Growth: Do Employee-owned Businesses Deliver Sustainable Performance?
Authors: Lampel, Joseph; Bhalla, Ajay; Jha, Pushkar
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: John Lewis Partnership and the Employee Ownership Association
Publication Year: 2010
This research looks at how employee-owned businesses performed before and during the 2007-2009 recession.
Raising the Bar: Employers’ Views on College Learning in the Wake of the Economic Downturn
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Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Association of American Colleges and Universities
Publication Year: 2010
Employers want their employees to use a broader set of skills and have higher levels of learning and knowledge than in the past to meet the increasingly complex demands they will face in the workplace. A majority of employers believe that colleges should place greater emphasis on a variety of learning outcomes developed through a liberal education...
2010 Global Peace Index
Author: The Institute for Economics and Peace
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: The Institute for Economics and Peace
Publication Year: 2010
2010 Global Peace Index methodology, results, and findings.
Peace, Wealth, and Human Potential
Author: The Institute for Economics and Peace
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: The Institute for Economics and Peace
Publication Year: 2010
The 2010 Global Peace Index discussion paper explores the relationships between peace and economic wealth and brings a fact-based approach to establishing the conditions and causes of peace.
Sustainable Stock Exchanges: Real Obstacles, Real Opportunities
Authors: Morales, Rumi; van Tichelen, Edouard
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Responsible Research
Publication Year: 2010
As the central marketplaces between buyers and sellers of equity securities, members of the World Federation of Exchanges (WFE) transacted over US$80 trillion in 2008, connecting millions of buyers and sellers. Through their listing requirements, stock exchanges can affect some of the business operations and practices of the companies that seek to use the exchange as a forum to access capital from global retail and institutional investors. This report provides an assessment of the current sustainability structures and practices at 30 of the world’s largest stock exchanges by market capitalization.
Blueprint for Corporate Sustainability Leadership
Author: UN Global Compact
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: UN Global Compact Office
Publication Year: 2010
Corporate sustainability has not penetrated the majority of companies operating in markets around the world. In other words, the global tipping point has not yet been reached. But it is within sight.
Embedding Sustainability in Organizational Culture: A Systematic Review of the Body of Knowledge
Authors: Bertels, Stephanie; Papania, Lisa; Papania, Daniel
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Network for Business Sustainability
Publication Year: 2010
This report represents a framework for embedding sustainability in organizational culture. Designed for executives, senior HR managers and senior sustainability managers, it presents a portfolio of practices – both those practices that the research has shown to be effective and those that show potential but remain untested.
TEEB - The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity Report for Business
Author: TEEB
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: TEEB for Business
Publication Year: 2010
Business and enterprise have a huge role to play in how we manage, safeguard and invest in our natural capital. This report is aimed squarely at this sector and will provide practical guidance on the issues and the opportunities created by the inclusion in mainstream business practices of ecosystem- and biodiversity-related considerations.
Insider Trading: Law, Trust, and Prevention
Authors: Seyedin-Noor, Bahram; O'Brien, Hollis
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Santa Clara University
Publication Year: 2010
A white paper produced for the Center’s Business and Organizational Ethics Partnership analyzes the new focus on insider trading at the SEC and suggests ways for businesses to avoid problems.
America's Energy Future
Author: American Energy Innovation Council
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: American Energy Innovation Council
Publication Year: 2010
As business leaders, we feel that America’s current energy system is deficient in ways that cause serious harm to our economy, our national security, and our environment. To correct these deficiencies, we must make a serious commitment to modernizing our energy system with cleaner, more efficient technologies.
John Lewis Partnership: A Guide to Employee Ownership
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Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: John Lewis Partnership
Publication Year: 2010
Employee-owned businesses (EOBs) take a variety of forms and operate in almost every sector of the economy: from retail to manufacturing, architecture to home care, engineering to advertising. They are united by an ethos that puts people first, involving the workforce in key decision-making and realising the potential and commitment of their employees.
The Business Case for an Integrated Approach to Water Management
Authors: Gee, Wesley; Even-Har, Meirav; Adam, Millie
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Canadian Business for Social Responsibility
Publication Year: 2009
The objective of this guide is to offer practical insights that will help companies to identify and manage water-related risks and capture opportunities, by offering a framework and supporting resources which encourage strategic decision making and a positive response toward responsible water management.
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