Redefining Value: The New Metrics of Sustainable Business

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The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA

October 24th, 2011

Business leaders today are faced with one of the most compelling challenges of our time: to identify new paths to value creation that respond to pressing environmental and human need, and more fully take in to account and measure business impact on all of it's stakeholders as well as it's shareholders. Key to this is the need for a new set of metrics by which new forms of tangible and intangible value can be measured and connected to the impact on financial performance.  

This day long, in-depth discussion examines leading edge work being done to develop new ways to quantify, manage and communicate impact, as well as new forms of value being delivered to various stakeholders.  Companies that grasp and find appropriate ways to adopt these new models will be in a stronger position to set and manage strategy and goals that dependably support both near term success and long term continuity.

Various leading edge initiatives will be presented, and time will be devoted for interactive and thought provoking discussion facilitated by three of the top sustainability strategists in the country; Gil Friend, Paul Herman and Andrew Winston. Throughout the day, sustainability and finance leaders will explore together the issues and opportunities surrounding the retooling of key business metrics to optimize business for sustainable success in the 21st Century.

Featured Speakers Include:

  • Sullivan, Hungstmann
  • paul herman and Michelle Lapinski
  • Roberta Barbieri, mark mcelroy
  • neil hawkins mark mcelroy
  • gunderson o'connor
  • Gil Friend, Michal Pelzig
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Who is coming to The New Metrics of Sustainable Business?

American Water | HR, Energy and Risk Managers
Campbell Soup Co. | VP, CSR and Sustainability
Case Western | Associate Professor
CFO Magazine | Deputy Editor
Coca-Cola Company | Manager, International Public Affairs
CRO Magazine | Editor-in-Chief
Deloitte | Sr Research Manager, Sustainability & Climate Change
Diageo | Global Environmental Director
DIRECTV | Lead Analyst, Sustainability
The Dow Chemical Company | Environmental Director
Ernst & Young | Executive Director
FMC Corporation | Sustainability Analyst
Fresh Direct | Merchandising
Ingersoll Rand | Sr. Analyst
Johnson & Johnson | Sr. Product Director and Sr. Mgr, Sustainability
Kendall Jackson Winery | VP of Sustainability
L'Oreal | Sustainability Coordinator
Merck | Sr. Director, Sustainability
MPG | SVP
North Carolina University | Professor of Practice
Oxfam | Sr. Advisor
PricewaterhouseCoopers | Director, Sustainable Business Solutions
Procter & Gamble | Technical External Relations Leader
PPL | Asset and Business Development Mgr.
SAP | Vice President
The Dannon Company | Environmental Sustainability Manager
The Nature Conservancy | Director of Corporate Practices
The Wharton School | Assoc. Director - Sustainability
UNC Kenan Flagler School of Business | Professor
Unilever | Assistant Brand Manager
and many more...

What You Will Learn:

  • How your environmental and social impact activities can be set in the context of what would constitute true sustainability of your activities.
  • What kind of shareholder value is, or might be created from your sustainability efforts.
  • What kinds of metrics or scorecards are taking shape to help you measure the various aspects of your environmental impact (organization, product, supply chain, whole industry, etc.)
  • If you are properly accounting for all your assets, or are there some investments that might be moved from expense to asset class on the balance sheet.

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