Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

From Pro Athlete to Tech Storyteller: Meet DICK’S Sporting Goods Manager of Communications & Branding

DICK'S Sporting Goods

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Advancing with Purpose: Designing for Product Energy Efficiency

AMD

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Global Reach, Local Impact

Tapestry, Inc.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

UN Global Compact Bulletin (October 2016)

The UN Global Compact Bulletin is designed to keep participants up to date on news, actions you can take, resources and events. Participants are encouraged to look to this monthly communication for important information. Please note that actions and events are intended for Global Compact stakeholders, unless otherwise indicated. The Bulletin is published in English, French, Spanish, Chinese, Arabic and Russian.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Analysts Mum on Sustainability During Earnings Calls

Questions from sell-side stock analysts about corporate sustainability issues remain few and far between on the quarterly earnings conference calls held by publicly traded companies.

More and more institutional investors, however, are digging deep into voluminous sustainability reports to gain a strategic advantage.

Those are some of the observations shared this week during the Bloomberg BNA Sustainability Business Summit in New York.

Innovation & Technology

Electrifying: The New Generation smart!

Better than reducing CO₂ emissions is not producing any emissions at all. The solution is electric mobility. smart is now implementing this throughout the whole product range as the first manufacturer worldwide to take such a decisive step toward environmentally friendly driving.

Health & Healthcare

M&S Wants Us to Get Active for 30 Minutes a Day to Help Cut the Risks pf Breast Cancer

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month (BCAM), and UK high-street retailer M&S has launched a campaign, ‘Spark Something Good,’ by teaming up with seven women, all of whom have been affected by breast cancer, to help get customers active to prevent the disease. During this month, the store will be donating 10 per cent of all women’s fitness clothing and sports bra sales to the charity, Breast Cancer Now.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Thoughts on Money, Meaning and Mission

During my years with KLD Research & Analytics, we saw our mission as two-fold. Our job was to remove the barriers at the top and to build the demand at the grassroots. We therefore created an index of companies created with social and environmental standards. That index outperformed the S&P 500.

Innovation & Technology

Japanese Companies Improve ESG Performance: MSCI Report

Following decades of recession and slow growth, Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe introduced a revitalization plan in 2012 – dubbed Abenomics – to address the key barriers of economic growth. One of the initiatives impacting corporations and capital markets was the establishment of Japan’s Stewardship Code and Corporate Governance Code. Implementation of these codes has led to greater attention among Japanese companies and investors on sustainable corporate earning capabilities.

Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Barclays Accelerator Taking Flight: Cutover One Year On

Cutover helps banks choreograph their most intricate moves. One year after graduating from the Barclays Accelerator, powered by Techstars,* founder Ky Nichol explains how Barclays has helped the fintech start-up leap onto a bigger stage.

Ballet and banking might seem strange bedfellows, but for fintech start-up Cutover, the analogy makes perfect sense.

Responsible Business & Employee Engagement

Chicken of the Sea Brings Traceability to Consumers

As supply chains become more complex, consumers are in turn becoming more curious about the origins of the products they buy. This is especially true when it comes to the food we put in our bodies. Increasingly, consumers are demanding further transparency from companies – wanting to know where their products come from and what's in them. And companies are responding, establishing traceable supply chains to educate and engage consumers about important sustainability issues.

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