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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...
Social Entrepreneurship Teaching Resources Handbook
Authors: Brock, Debbi D.; Kim, Marina; Davis, Susan
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Ashoka's Global Academy for Social Entrepreneurship
Publication Year: 2008
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As advocates for social entrepreneurs and social entrepreneurship education, staff at Ashoka have gathered a plethora of resources for both faculty new to the field of social entrepreneurship and seasoned veterans who blazed the trail in the early twenty first century.
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.
The MBA Drive for Social Value: Five Trends Boosting Social Benefit Content at U.S. Business Schools
Authors: Stone, Nan; Stid, Daniel; Ciccarone, Michael; Deshpande, Rahni
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: The Bridgespan Group
Publication Year: 2009
The number of courses with social benefit content in US MBA programs is rising sharply. In February 2009 The Bridgespan Group contacted 15 graduate business schools known for their academic coursework and attention to social concerns to understand the dynamics impelling its growth. Responses from 10 of the MBA programs showed the inclusion of social benefit content in both core curricula and industry specific electives. Both the percentage of total courses including content relevant to the social and public sectors and the number of courses specifically related to managing social sector organizations more than doubled over the past five years at respondent institutions.
Competitiveness at a Crossroads: Findings of Harvard Business School’s 2012 Survey on U.S. Competitiveness
Authors: Porter, Michael E.; Rivkin, Jan W.; Kanter, Rosabeth Moss
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2013
Second in the series of U.S. Competitiveness surveys, Harvard Business School gleaned responses from nearly 7,000 alumni and more than 1,000 members of the general public. The survey not only provides an updated view of the U.S. business environment, but also illuminates specific actions that business leaders and policymakers can take to improve U.S. competitiveness.
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...
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.
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...
Disaster Resilience: A National Imperative
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Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: The National Academies Press
Publication Year: 2012
No person or place is immune from disasters or disaster-related losses. One way to reduce the impacts of disasters on the nation and its communities is to invest in enhancing resilience--the ability to prepare and plan for, absorb, recover from and more successfully adapt to adverse events. Although disasters will continue to occur, actions that move the nation from reactive approaches to disasters to a proactive stance where communities actively engage in enhancing resilience will reduce many of the broad societal and economic burdens that disasters can cause.
Food and Agriculture: The Future of Sustainability
Authors: Giovannucci, Daniele; Scherr, Sara; Nierenberg, Danielle; Hebebrand, Charlotte; Shapiro, Julie; Milder, Jeffrey; Wheeler, Keith
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Division for Sustainable Development
Publication Year: 2012
On our current trajectory, severe disruptions to national and regional food systems are highly probable - the question is when. This report focuses on vital areas of risk and offers a collection of up-to-date information on the current and likely trends for our global food and agriculture systems.
Why Are Business Leaders Prioritising Sustainability?
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Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Temple Group; Sustainable Business; Edie.net
Publication Year: 2012
Despite economic pressures, sustainability remains very firmly on the boardroom agenda. This report examines the current sustainability landscape to investigate where boardroom priorities actually are, how deeply embedded sustainability has become, or remained, in business operations and how that will change over the next few years.
Making Your Impact at Work: A Practical Guide to Changing the World from Inside Any Company
Author: Net Impact
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Net Impact
Publication Year: 2009
Making Your Impact at Work is based on the stories of innovative and inspiring social intrapreneurs in the Net Impact network. The first section of the guide summarizes themesNet Impact identified in the experiences of the intrapreneurs profiled and provides a framework and model for other changemakers to follow. The second section includes individual case studies of 13 corporate changemakers and contains details on the planning and execution of their initiatives.
The Social Intrapreneur: A Field Guide for Corporate Changemakers
Author: SustainAbility
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: SustainAbility
Publication Year: 2008
The following Field Guide draws upon in-depth interviews with twenty social intrapreneurs from a diverse sample of multi-national corporations. Their work covers a wide array of environmental and social challenges and is in varying stages of development — ranging from incubation to market expansion. The characteristic common to all of these individuals is a passion for driving societal change through business in a way that generates long-term value for both their companies and communities.
Business at its Best: Driving Sustainable Value Creation
Authors: Coady, Margaret; Khan, Nijma
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Accenture / CECP
Publication Year: 2011
Can businesses sustain meaningful growth, drive innovation, and, simultaneously, address some of the most important societal challenges facing communities and nations all over the world? The CEOs whose insights form the basis of Business at its Best see the answer to that question as an unequivocal “yes.”
Creating Shared Value in India: How Indian Corporations Are Contributing to Inclusive Growth While Strengthening Their Competitive Advantage
Authors: Borgonovi, Veronica; Meier, Simon; Sharda, Manjari; Vaidyanathan, Lalitha
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: FSG
Publication Year: 2011
FSG’s research in India has identified a number of highly innovative examples of shared value. In this paper, we highlight these examples and call on corporations, especially our largest ones, to lead the charge toward a strategy for growth that benefits all our citizens.
Competing by Saving Lives: How Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Companies Create Shared Value in Global Health
Authors: Peterson, Kyle; Kim, Samuel; Rehrig, Matthew; Stamp, Mike
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: FSG
Publication Year: 2012
This report highlights how pharmaceutical and medical device companies are creating shared value in global health by enhancing their competitiveness while simultaneously addressing the global burden of disease...
Sustainability: New Perspectives and Opportunities
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Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Joseph H. Lauder Institute of Management & International Studies, University of Pennsylvania
Publication Year: 2012
While there is considerable debate as to the kinds of changes required to achieve it, the idea of sustainability has taken hold. Governments, companies, nonprofit organizations, grassroots groups, and the general public are immersed in wide-ranging discussions and activities to improve the use of the planet’s resources so that future generations can enjoy them. Progress, however, has been limited, episodic, and incremental, at best. This white paper pulls together the definitions of sustainability and the solutions proposed by a group of experts drawn from academia, business, government, think tanks, and nonprofit organizations...
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…
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...
Anti-corruption Guidelines (“Toolkit”) for MBA Curriculum Change
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Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: United Nations Global Compact, Principles for Responsible Management Education
Publication Year: 2012
The project aims at promoting ethical decision-making and anti-corruption competencies at the post-baccalaureate level by offering business schools and management-related academic institutions substantive anti-corruption guidelines for curriculum change with the aim of teaching students to take effective and ethical decisions that benefit both business and society.
Inspirational Guide for the Implementation of PRME: Placing Sustainability at the Heart of Management Education
Author: GSE Research Limited
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: GSE Research Limited; United Nations Global Compact, Principles for Responsible Management Education
Publication Year: 2012
While consensus has been reached by the majority of globally focused management education institutions that sustainability must be incorporated into management education curricula, the relevant question is no longer why management education should change, but how? This Guide addresses frequently asked questions concerning the implementation of principles for responsible management education by highlighting real world examples with cases from dozens of institutions in countries around the world...
ESOPs
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Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Butcher Joseph Hayes
Publication Year: 2012
ESOPs are a unique combination of a benefit plan and a tool of corporate finance. The value of the plan, as an employee benefit, is directly related to the performance of the company, creating an effective incentive for management and employees to perform well.
2012 Best of Sustainable Supply: McDonald's
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Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: AboutMcDonalds.com
Publication Year: 2012
This report includes fifty-one mini case studies highlighting sustainable best practices in the global McDonald’s supply chain...
Charting Our Water Future: Economic Frameworks to Inform Decision-making
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Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: 2030 Water Resources Group
Publication Year: 2009
Across the globe, policy makers, civil society and the business sector are increasingly becoming aware of the challenge facing global water resources, and the need to carefully manage these resources. Progress has been limited, however, and overall too slow. One missing piece has been the lack of a rigorous analytical framework to facilitate decision-making and investment into the sector, particularly on measures of efficiency and water productivity.
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.
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 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.
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...
College Learning for the New Global Century
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Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Association of American Colleges and Universities
Publication Year: 2007
In the twenty-first century, the world itself is setting very high expectations for knowledge and skill. This report—based on extensive input both from educators and employers—responds to these new global challenges. It describes the learning contemporary students need from college, and what it will take to help them achieve it.
Making the Case for Liberal Education: Responding to Challenges
Author: Humphreys, Debra
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Association of American Colleges and Universities
Publication Year: 2006
Behind the scenes, largely unknown to the public and students alike, a consensus is emerging about the kind of education that Americans need to thrive in a knowledge-intensive economy, a globally engaged democracy, and a society where innovation is essential to progress and success. This consensus about essential learning outcomes underscores the value of a liberal education for all college students, regardless of their background or choice of field.
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?”
The Company Behind The Brand: In Reputation We Trust
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Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Weber Shandwick
Publication Year: 2012
As consumers around the world have greater online access to a brand’s lineage, the influence of the brand "parent" or company behind the brand matters even more. In this uncertain climate, consumers expect more from leading companies and have no trouble boycotting those that fail to live up to new standards.
Education for Sustainability EfS Standards & Performance Indicators: 2012 Edition
Author: The Cloud Institute for Sustainability Education
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: The Cloud Institute for Sustainability Education
Publication Year: 2012
The knowledge, skills, attitudes and habits of mind of Education for Sustainability (EfS) are embedded in The Cloud Institute's EfS Standards and Performance Indicators. Each EfS Standard has a set of coded Performance Indicators used to guide educators as they infuse their school culture, curriculum, instruction and assessment practices with Education for Sustainability.
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.
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.
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.
Creating Shared Value: A How-to Guide for the New Corporate (R)evolution
Authors: Bockstette, Valerie; Stamp, Mike
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: FSG
Publication Year: 2011
Until recently, corporate engagement in society has been viewed as a business cost, to be traded off against profitability. Increasingly, however, companies are realizing that by creating shared value, they can benefit society and boost their competitiveness at the same time.
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.
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.
Participation and productivity: a comparison of worker cooperatives and conventional firms in the plywood industry
Authors: Craig, Ben; Pencavel, John; Farber, Henry; Krueger, Alan B.
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Brookings Papers on Economic Activity. Microeconomics
Publication Year: 1995
A perennial issue is the study of organizational behavior is the impact on productivity of participation by workers in a firm's decisionmaking. The question has returned to the foreground is the recent debate over policies to increase U.S. productivity growth.
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.
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.
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.
Peace and Sustainability: Cornerstone to Survival in the 21st Century
Author: The Institute for Economics and Peace
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: The Institute for Economics and Peace
Publication Year: 2007
The 2007 Global Peace Index Discussion Paper outlines the role of peace in the major challenges facing humanity in the 21st century and discusses how peace metrics can contribute to policy, research and advocacy.
2007 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: 2007
2007 Global Peace Index methodology, results, and findings.
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