Sustainable Business & Enterprise Roundtable (SBER) Assessment Corporate Users April 2015 Introduction The Sustainable Business and Enterprise Roundtable (SBER) service provides an annual, confidential qualitative Diagnostic and Assessment to benchmark Member-Clients against their peers and recommend areas for improvement. This Assessment Report details benchmarks and performance in five component areas, which are rolled up to a weighted SBER Index (Figure 1). The component and
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Introduction (1.5 min) JB: The infamous Chocolate Hills of Bohol… I was there, and I was able to experience the exquisite taste of their Binagol. JAS: One of the safest city in the world, Davao City. I was there, and I’ve tasted their mango and I have this bag to prove it. MART: The white beaches in Samar and the islands of Leyte. But what do I have? Well, I only have this tan to prove it. JB: Ladies and gentlemen, good morning. We are… All: Team Stalwardt JB: And this is… All: HELP EV
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1 1. Introduction 2. Definition of sustainability report 3. Motivation of sustainability report 3.1 External driver 3.2 Brand value 3.3 Governance 4. Key features 4.1 Materiality 4.2 Transparency 4.3 Assurance 5. Evaluation 5.1 Materiality 5.2 Transparency 5.3 Assurance 6. Conclusion 7.References Executive Summary Sustainability report aims to describe companies’ environmental, economic and social representation
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two visionaries, Bill Bowerman and Phil Knight, who set out to reinvent athletic footwear. Over the past decade, our drive to design and produce better, faster, lighter products has evolved into an even more ambitious agenda – to embed long term sustainability into our business. This broader vision calls for new approaches to design, management, partnership and new tools and metrics to support integration and adoption throughout Nike. Many of Nike’s http://www.managementexchange.com/story/nike%E2%80%99s-gameplan-growth-that%E2%80%99s-good-all
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resources wisely: * Econo-Environmental * Environmental Stewardship * Encouraging visitors to consider sustainability: Encouraging customers to make sustainable choices is the biggest environmental challenge. * Focusing on appropriate management principles: * Customer focus * Leadership * Involvement of people * Draft sustainability policy: Using resources wisely: * Econo-environmental: * Resource efficiency: Try to use resource efficiency
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the manner in which we run our business: Our professional ethics in dealing with our business partners, investors, employees and society. Future and Result Focus In order to ensure dynamic development of our company and to guarantee longterm corporate success, we participate in shaping the changes in markets and technologies. By doing so, we provide our customers with innovative solutions and our associates with attractive jobs. We act result focused in order to secure growth and financial independence
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Why important: Sustainability reporting expanded rapidly these years (1, 1) and has become the mainstream in global organisations (2, 2). Moreover, ‘in Europe, more and more individual countries make sustainability reporting mandatory’ (2,2). Especially, it legislation exists in some of the company categories for example Finland, Sweden, Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany (2,2. Delbard, 2008). Indeed, some of scholars also ‘introduced requirements on sustainability reports for public corporations’
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competitive advantage in positive ways, such as strengthen the company's uniqueness against rivals. Also we could believe that business and sustainability seems to be compatible when we se how the positive and improved image of Patagonia helped it to gain legitimacy with stakeholders; or when its competitors are making some changes based on shared broad sustainability practices initiated by Patagonia. But balancing commitment to business with commitment to environment is a much more complicated issue
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THE WAY FORWARD Recommendations for Leveraging Sustainability and Optimizing Existing Green Lines Instructor: Kim Bates Course: Integrative Weekend – W2012 Date: March 4, 2012 Consultants: Deborah Sue Chee Eva von Biehler Mehdi Tahuri Serhiy Rudak S.Mehmood Ul-Hasan Vern Puchoon Executive Summary In the face of consumer changes and current economic conditions, Clorox must make several key decisions regarding resource allocation and strategic focus across its product divisions. Specifically
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Hewlett-Packard: Sustainability as a Competitive Advantage By Eric M. Lowitt and Jim Grimsley May 2009 Case Study Hewlett-Packard: Sustainability as a Competitive Advantage Having worked with thousands of corporate and government clients around the world, Accenture has long understood the special characteristics that enable organizations to outperform their peers—to become high-performance businesses. High-performance businesses are those that: • effectively balance current needs and
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