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Valuing Eco-System Services: Inside the Dow Chemicals/Nature Conservancy Partnership

Dow Chemicals and The Nature Conservancy have partnered in a breakthrough collaboration aimed at demonstrating the power of a systematic approach to understanding and factoring into corporate decision-making the value of nature, biodiversity and ecosystem services.

Date: 
October 31, 2011
Duration: 
Slideshow
Speakers: 
Judy Gunderson
Michelle Lapinski

Human Value Added: People as an Asset on the Balance Sheet

Wharton 1989 Alum Paul Herman, Investment Advisor and Author, The HIP (Human Impact & Profit) Investor in conversation with pioneers on the subject of "human resource valuation"

Date: 
October 26, 2011
Duration: 
Slideshow
Speakers: 
Paul Herman

Moving Environmental Impact onto the Balance Sheet

Reiner Hengstmann, Global Director PUMA.SAFE, Puma joins us virtually from Vietnam to discuss an alternative approach to solving the challenges the company is faced with in regards to putting a value on environmental impact and incorporating it in to the balance sheet.

Date: 
October 25, 2011
Duration: 
16:16
Speakers: 
Reiner Hengstmann

Modeling the Shared Value of Industry Collaboration

In this session, John O'Connor, VP Sustainability Research, Gaia Metrics (formerly, World Bank, IMF) suggests a model for applying models typically used to value "own account intangibles" like capitalized R&D and brand equity to industry or shared intangibles, such as pre-competition collaboration and supply chain information systems.

Date: 
October 25, 2011
Duration: 
Slideshow
Speakers: 
John O'Connor

Integrating Financial, Ecological, Social and Health Metrics to Drive Business Process, Change and Reporting

Campbell Soup has made a significant commitment to ‘bake in’ corporate social responsibility into it’s mission “to build the world’s most extraordinary food company by nourishing people’s lives everywhere, every day.” In this session, Dave Stangis, VP Corporate Social Responsibility, Campbell Soup Company shares how Campbell is creating new business systems to drive progress and change, and what i

Date: 
October 25, 2011
Duration: 
Slideshow
Speakers: 
Dave Stangis

Poverty Footprinting: Valuing Business Contribution to Development

Coca-Cola is partnering with Oxfam America on Poverty Footprinting to assign a tangible value to the contribution of business on development. Heidi Koester addresses the background and objectives for the project as well as share emerging metrics associated with it.

Date: 
October 25, 2011
Duration: 
Slideshow
Speakers: 
Heidi Koester
Jonathan Jacoby

Context-Based Metrics: Taking Sustainability Literally

This session examines the advent of a new class of indicators in sustainability measurement and reporting known as context-based metrics, or CBMs. Unlike most of what passes for best practice today, CBMs express organizational performance relative to norms, standards or thresholds for what such impacts would have to be in order to be sustainable.

Date: 
October 25, 2011
Duration: 
Slideshow
Speakers: 
Mark McElroy

Leveraging CDP (Carbon Disclosure Project) Data to Drive Business Value

According to the 2011 Carbon Disclosure Project Report, companies in the Carbon Disclosure Leadership and Performance Index delivered approximately double the total return of Global 500 companies between January 2005 and May 2011, suggesting a strong correlation between good climate change disclosure and performance, and higher financial performance.

Date: 
October 25, 2011
Duration: 
Slideshow
Speakers: 
Jim Sullivan
Roberta Barbieri
Michal Pelzig

Best Practices in Product Metrics

Libby Bernick, Vice President, TerraChoice, shares best practices in product-focused sustainability metrics. Current practices in developing greener product sourcing frameworks by B2B procurement experts and B2C category managers might not be what you expect.

Date: 
October 25, 2011
Duration: 
Slideshow
Speakers: 
Libby Bernick

The Metrics of Reputation - Jeff Smith, Partner, Prophet

Jeff Smith discussed findings from Prophet’s 2010 Reputation Survey and discussed the process for measuring reputation and determining drivers that matter. He looked across categories, discussed key trends and illustrate how building reputation is not just about influencing policy makers and investors, it is critical to the commercial success of a business.

Date: 
October 25, 2011
Duration: 
Slideshow
Speakers: 
Jeff Smith
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