Research, Reports & Publications

Guiding Stars: Refining Our Guidance With Good Science

Guiding Stars Licensing Company LLC

Inclusive Business Maturity Toolkit: How Inclusive is Your Business?

Following on from the successful launch of Uncharted Waters, a report jointly published by Business Call to Action (BCtA), UNDP and Deloitte in October 2016, BCtA has now launched its Inclusive Business Maturity Toolkit. While the report examines how the private sector can move beyond philanthropy and corporate social responsibility to more meaningfully contribute to the SDGs, the toolkit takes this concept a step further by helping companies identify both how well theyโ€™re including people at the base of the economic pyramid (BoP) as employees, consumers and more, and how they can do it better.

Access to Medicines Index

In 2016, we topped the Access to Medicine Index for the fifth consecutive time since it began in 2008. The index is an independent measure of the top 20 pharmaceutical companiesโ€™ efforts to improve access to healthcare in developing countries.

The Value of Smart City Initiatives Offer New Twist on Old Question of Affordability

Black & Veatchโ€™s 2017 Strategic Directions: Smart City/Smart Utility Report reinforces lessons learned in the past yearโ€”although governments and municipalities believe strongly in the smart city model, they continue to struggle to fund these efforts. According to survey data, only 16 percent of municipalities can self-fund a smart city initiative, a little over a third cannot.

Centrica Launches Responsible Business Update 2016

In the Update, Centrica demonstrates how they are responding to the rapidly changing world of energy to give customers what they want โ€“ more choice, more control, more affordable energy and increasingly, lower carbon.

Last Yearโ€™s Sustainability Winners Unwrapped

Last yearโ€™s 7th Annual Ethical Corporation Responsible Business Awards showcased the crรจme de la crรจme of companies across the world who are setting the bar for sustainability.

Elevating Sustainability Reporting to Common Practice: Close-Up with GRI's Judy Kuszewski

As the newly appointed Chair of the GRI Global Sustainability Standards Board, Judy Kuszewski wants to see a stronger link between sustainability and business strategy, and deeper collaboration between reporting frameworks. Find out more about Kuszewskiโ€™s vision about the future of corporate reporting.

Arrow Innovation Puts Elementary School Students on the Path to a Better Tomorrow

Arrow Electronics believes the world shouldnโ€™t have to wait for the next DaVinci to appear. Rather, our view is that innovation is a skill set that can be taught. Our education programming reflects our commitment to supporting the next generation of innovators by giving elementary school youngsters tangible experiences that build confidence through creative expression.

T. Rowe Price Releases Its First Diversity and Inclusion Report

T. Rowe Price is pleased to announce the release of its first-ever Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) Report. The 2016 report highlights the firmโ€™s continued and purposeful strategy in leveraging differences.

Shire Issues 2016 Annual Responsibility Review

Shire plc (LSE: SHP, NASDAQ: SHPG) today announced the launch of the Companyโ€™s 2016 Annual Responsibility Review. The Review, available at shire.com, highlights how Shireโ€™s growth has strengthened its approach to Responsibility and allows the Company to better meet the needs of people around the world with rare diseases and their families.

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