Novo Nordisk
Novo Nordisk is a global healthcare company with 95 years of innovation and leadership in diabetes care. This heritage has given us experience and capabilities that also enable us to help people defeat other serious chronic conditions: rare bleeding disorders, growth hormone related disorders and obesity.
Novo Nordisk is a leading global healthcare company, founded in 1923 and headquartered in Denmark.
Our purpose is to drive change to defeat diabetes and other serious chronic diseases such as obesity and rare blood and endocrine disorders.We do so by pioneering scientific breakthroughs, expanding access to our medicines and working to prevent and ultimately cure disease.
Novo Nordisk employs about 42,700 people in 80 countries and markets its products in around 170 countries.
RE100 Leadership Awards’ winners announced: Businesses driving the clean power revolution
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Companies Worth $15T Named to CDP's 2020 ‘A List’ of Environmental Leaders
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The Future-Fit Business Benchmark: How Do I Start?
Look at it as a tool with which to solve the underlying puzzles posed by the sustainability challenge. ... View More
L'Oréal, Firmenich Top CDP’s A-Lists for Climate, Water, Deforestation
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Righting Wrong Metrics: Lessons on Future-Fitness and Fixing Materiality
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Future-Fit Business Benchmark Shows Novo Nordisk What 'Good' Looks Like
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Global Practitioners Gather to Compare Notes on Redesigning the #GoodLife
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Sustainable Brands Releases Program Details for New Metrics ‘18 Conference
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Sustainable Brands Announces New Metrics 2018
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#NewMetrics, Day 3: Digging Even Deeper Into Next-Generation Impact Metrics
Live Well San Diego: A visionary partnership to define and measure 10 quality-of-life metrics By Anna Shugoll ... View More
Trending: New Tools Provide Businesses with Roadmap to Deliver on SDGs
Following through on the commitments outlined in the UN Sustainable Development Goals is one of the best shots companies have to maintain a competitive advantage and future-proof their businesses, but progress has thus far been lacking. ... View More
5 Reasons Why Impact Is Competitive: Insights from the World’s Top CEOs
Corporate social and environmental responsibility has developed to a point where the world’s leading CEOs believe it is essential to their companies’ long-term business success. The movement is growing, and companies around the world are approach... View More
Pivot, Partner, Proliferate: How Major Brands Are Driving Lasting, Industry-Wide Change
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The Body Shop Is Using the Future-Fit Business Benchmark to 'Enrich Not Exploit' - and You Can, Too
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Novo Nordisk Launches Campaign to Improve Diabetes Awareness in Kenya
Novo Nordisk, in partnership with the Kenyan Ministry of Health and the Kenya Diabetes Management and Information Center, has launched a six-month diabetes awareness campaign in Nairobi to promote early diagnosis through screening, especially among l... View More
Cities and Corporations: How Do They Intersect on Sustainability?
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Novo Nordisk Opens 11th One-Stop Diabetes Care Center in West Africa
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#NewMetrics ’14 Panel Explores Progress, Lessons, Challenges of Integrated Reporting
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10 *Firsts* Coming Up at #NewMetrics '14
As we get closer to my personal favorite among the growing list of Sustainable Brands events — New Metrics, this year in collaboration with the MIT Sloan School of Management — I am finding it hard not to engage complete strangers on the street i... View More
Sustainia: Sustainable Solutions Can Reverse Rise in Chronic Diseases
Chronic diseases are projected to cause a global economic loss of $47 trillion between 2011-2030, but can be countered by sustainability initiatives while also addressing environmental issues, according to a new report by diabetes care supplier Novo ... View More
