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.

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RE100 Leadership Awards’ winners announced: Businesses driving the clean power revolution

Published on September 22, 2021

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3M, The Estée Lauder Companies, Google and Novo Nordisk have been announced as winners of the RE100 Leadership Awards 2021, at a special ceremony at Climate Week NYC. ... View More

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Companies Worth $15T Named to CDP's 2020 ‘A List’ of Environmental Leaders

Published on December 8, 2020

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Over 300 companies have today been named on this year’s A List by environmental non-profit CDP. This is a major increase on last year, despite the unprecedented challenges posed by COVID-19. ... View More

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The Future-Fit Business Benchmark: How Do I Start?

Published on January 23, 2019

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Look at it as a tool with which to solve the underlying puzzles posed by the sustainability challenge. ... View More

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L'Oréal, Firmenich Top CDP’s A-Lists for Climate, Water, Deforestation

Published on January 22, 2019

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CDP scored over 6,800 companies from A to D-; only the top 2% made the A Lists. ... View More

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Righting Wrong Metrics: Lessons on Future-Fitness and Fixing Materiality

Published on November 2, 2018

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This week at Sustainable Brands’ New Metrics ’18 conference in Philadelphia, PA, over 300 delegates from brands, NGOs, strategists and practitioners across sectors gathered to share their latest tools and findings regarding measuring the risks an... View More

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New Metrics

Future-Fit Business Benchmark Shows Novo Nordisk What 'Good' Looks Like

Published on October 26, 2018

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Novo Nordisk is the first global company to have completed a Future-Fit self-assessment and to have the results independently assured. In advance of Sustainable Brands’ New Metrics ’18 event next week in Philadelphia, I sat down with Cora Olsen, ... View More

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Global Practitioners Gather to Compare Notes on Redesigning the #GoodLife

Published on September 29, 2018

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Last year, the Sustainable Brands community gathered around the world throughout the year to share insights on how they – and their customers – were “redefining the good life.” This year, the conversation has progressed from the ‘what’ to... View More

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Sustainable Brands Releases Program Details for New Metrics ‘18 Conference

Published on July 26, 2018

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Speakers from Danone, Seventh Generation, and B Lab among those confirmed to share advances in the metrics around social and environmental value SAN FRANCISCO, July 26, 2018 – Sustainable Brands® recently unveiled program details for New Metrics '... View More

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Sustainable Brands Announces New Metrics 2018

Published on July 12, 2018

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400+ brand, sustainability and financial experts to convene October 29-31 in Philadelphia SAN FRANCISCO, July 12, 2018 – Sustainable Brands® recently released the brochure for its 8th annual New Metrics conference. New Metrics ’18: The ROI of Su... View More

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#NewMetrics, Day 3: Digging Even Deeper Into Next-Generation Impact Metrics

Published on November 17, 2017

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Live Well San Diego: A visionary partnership to define and measure 10 quality-of-life metrics By Anna Shugoll ... View More

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Trending: New Tools Provide Businesses with Roadmap to Deliver on SDGs

Published on September 27, 2017

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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

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5 Reasons Why Impact Is Competitive: Insights from the World’s Top CEOs

Published on July 31, 2017

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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

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Pivot, Partner, Proliferate: How Major Brands Are Driving Lasting, Industry-Wide Change

Published on September 29, 2016

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The “musical chairs of leadership” can be a huge obstacle to embedding sustainability in the private sector. An average CMO remains in position for just 18 months, Thomas Kolster, aka “Mr. Goodvertising,” told SB’16 Copenhagen attendees on ... View More

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The Body Shop Is Using the Future-Fit Business Benchmark to 'Enrich Not Exploit' - and You Can, Too

Published on June 20, 2016

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We have entered a new era: the Anthropocene, an era characterized by humans as the dominant influence on climate and the environment. We are causing changes at such an unprecedented rate that it has been called ‘the Great Acceleration.’ We are we... View More

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Novo Nordisk Launches Campaign to Improve Diabetes Awareness in Kenya

Published on July 7, 2015

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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

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Cities and Corporations: How Do They Intersect on Sustainability?

Published on June 1, 2015

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What can cities do contribute to the sustainability revolution? A whole lot, according to a workshop today, opening morning of SB ’15, featuring Gil Friend, CSO of the City of Palo Alto, and Chris Guenther, Director of Research at think tank Sustai... View More

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Novo Nordisk Opens 11th One-Stop Diabetes Care Center in West Africa

Published on December 15, 2014

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Danish pharmaceutical firm Novo Nordisk has opened its eleventh Diabetes Support Center, improving access to affordable diabetes treatment in some of the largest cities in Ghana and Nigeria.The new Diabetes Support Center at Holy Family Hospital in N... View More

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#NewMetrics ’14 Panel Explores Progress, Lessons, Challenges of Integrated Reporting

Published on September 26, 2014

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This afternoon workshop on day 2 of #NewMetrics caught attendees up with the latest from early adopters of integrated reporting. Practitioners have always aimed to derive the best way to report status, progress and value of sustainability work, but t... View More

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10 Firsts Coming Up at #NewMetrics '14

Published on September 12, 2014

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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

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Sustainia: Sustainable Solutions Can Reverse Rise in Chronic Diseases

Published on May 28, 2014

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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

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