If a CEO’s pronouncements were all the evidence we needed that a business was doing something, then sustainability would be top of the strategy charts. Over half of the McKinsey Global Survey 2010 participants consider sustainability – the management of...
Today's corporate reporting model looks broken. It is dominated by a compliance mindset, particularly in America, with an inordinate focus on technical things, not strategy. It is so separated from internal reporting that boards are unable to engage with...
The International Energy Agency (IEA) has just published its latest global greenhouse gas emission data, and it makes uncomfortably warm reading. While the recession caused a minor blip in 2009, Planet Earth is now well back on the inexorable path of...
Mandatory CSR has all sorts of INTENDED consequences, say Ioannou and Serafiem, professors at London Business School and Harvard, respectively. Using data for 58 countries, they show that after the adoption of mandatory sustainability reporting laws and...
Paul Druckman reporting from Ceres 2011: When receiving an award at Ceres 2011 on behalf of Nike, the company's vice president of corporate social responsibility spoke about two key themes in reporting: transparency and data. Her quote? "Data is the...