Sustainable Business Metrics Archive

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Recap of ‘The New Metrics of Sustainable Business’ Conference at the Wharton School, Philadelphia, Oct. 24, 2011 Co-Authored with Nick Gower Eleven years into the 3rd millennium, the future of...
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Most companies carefully watch the strategy and performance of their competitors.  When they see a new product, a change in a business process, or a new marketing program, they look for ways to...
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In this year’s report we will examine two broad themes of peace. The first theme explores the relationships between peace and economic wealth, while the second brings a fact-based approach to...
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The Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) produces the annual Global Peace Index, the leading measure of national peacefulness and its economic value.  Our research found that in 2010,...
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The world of sustainability performance analytics is exploding at a breakneck speed.  What once was a niche field for socially responsible investment has transformed into a vast marketplace of...
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Everyday the world gets a little more connected.  With only a mobile phone and a Twitter account, citizens across the globe are publishing international news and breaking stories in a matter of...
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Corporate sustainability is developing at lightning speed. We are moving from an era in which sustainability was a piecemeal process focusing on marketing and communications to one in which metrics...
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What is your organization’s most important asset? CEOs often respond that the organization’s people are its greatest asset. But if this is true, where are people accounted for in the financial...
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Sustainability mega-trends such as resource constraints, population growth and demographic changes are beginning to have significant financial impacts in the ‘here and now’, causing many prominent...
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Many companies that closely follow market trends make the mistake of deciding they need a “sustainability strategy.” Yes, sustainability is a transformative market trend and, yes, a strategy is...
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It is well known by Sustainability Officers at large corporations that the metrics tools available today for generating sustainability reporting are poorly suited for use by non-manufacturing...
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Setting challenging, measurable goals that turn a company’s sustainability philosophy into tangible results is one of this decade’s most complex corporate challenges. As the world’s leading brewer,...
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You’re the CEO of an organisation called Sustainable Fisheries Partnership – what does it do exactly? SFP is a not-for-profit organisation that gives the seafood industry the tools it needs to make...
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In 15 years the emerging field of biomimicry could represent $300 billion annually of U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) in 2010 dollars, according to a new report. Additionally, It could account for...
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GRI has now formally responded to the Enforce or Explain campaign we (the Center for Sustainable Organizations) launched last month in which we suggested that it either enforce the ‘sustainability...
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Every once in a while, a completely counterintuitive idea comes along, shakes up our assumptions, and becomes the new normal. I believe Patagonia Clothing’s Common Threads initiative is an idea like...
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In recent years, the way companies are thinking about corporate sustainability has shifted. For the most part, it had been a secondary practice centered on reporting. Now, it’s starting to influence...
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Guayakí’s yerba mate natively grows beneath the rainforest canopy, which means that shade-grown organic yerba mate can be utilized as an economic driver for sustaining rainforest. Guayakí’s...
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U.S. Concrete, Inc. is among the top 10 producers of ready-mixed concrete in the U.S.  The company, which owns several concrete businesses including my firm, services major construction...
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Today a company can use life-cycle analysis (LCA) to measure the total-lifetime impacts of products and identify hotspots to reduce carbon emissions – and therefore costs.  Companies like...

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