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New Metrics

HBR's Top Performing CEOs: Financial Results and Sustainability — A Complex Relationship

Published on November 9, 2016

About a 4 minute read

The Harvard Business Review (HBR) recently published its 2016 list of the world’s top 100 CEOs. As in the past, HBR’s staff looked at the financial and ESG (environment, social, governance) performance of the CEOs of 1,200 large companies. They u... View More

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Community Updates

Why a Lens on Diversity is one of the Most Critical Skills for Tomorrow’s Impact Professionals

Published on October 18, 2016

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This post was orginially published October 13, 2016 on Net Impact's Blog in advance of the 2016 Net Impact Conferece. By Cecily Joseph, VP Corporate Responsibility and Chief Diversity Officer and Ruha Devanesan, Manager, Global Diversity and Inclusio... View More

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Stakeholder Trends and Insights

Global Coffee Groups Unite to Catalogue Sector-Wide Progress in Achieving 100% Sustainability

Published on September 16, 2016

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Today the Global Coffee Platform (GCP), the Specialty Coffee Association of America (SCAA) and the Sustainable Coffee Challenge have publicly launched the Coffee Sustainability Catalogue 2016. ... View More

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Innovation & Technology Innovation & Technology

Advertising: A Social Experiment That, for the Most Part, Has Gone Wrong

Published on August 15, 2016

About a 6 minute read

As an industry, we’re ignorant at best or utterly demagogic, one-sided and irresponsible at worst. The majority of do-good efforts from brands are little more than a cheeky pick-up line to charm consumers into buying more. How can we continuously i... View More

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Organizational Governance Organizational Governance

How LinkedIn Is Working to Connect Hard-to-Reach Job Seekers With New Opportunities

Published on August 12, 2016

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News Deeply, in partnership with Sustainable Brands, has produced a series of profiles looking at how brands are tackling some of the world’s biggest challenges. The goal is to examine trends and gather insights from a new wave of corporate citizen... View More

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Materials & Packaging Materials & Packaging

Trending: Flexible Plastic Pouches, Coffee Cups (Finally) Ready for Recycling

Published on June 16, 2016

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Earlier this year, Chef-turned-waste-activist Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall drew attention to the huge problem of coffee cup waste. He claimed that in the U.K., less than 6 million takeaway hot beverage cups are recycled each year, while 7 million are ... View More

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Innovation & Technology Innovation & Technology

Starbucks Issues First-Ever U.S. Corporate Sustainability Bond, Aimed at Driving Social Impacts in Supply Chain

Published on May 18, 2016

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Starbucks Corporation announced on Monday that it completed the underwriting of an initial public offering of senior notes, including its first-ever U.S. Corporate Sustainability Bond. ... View More

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Innovation & Technology Innovation & Technology

Can ‘The Paris Effect’ Take Companies, Governments Beyond Flagship Initiatives?

Published on April 20, 2016

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This Friday, world leaders will convene to sign the Paris Climate Agreement. The international regulatory environment and national policies to curb emissions are reshaping global markets. Decarbonization could define the 21st century economy. But wha... View More

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Consumer Behavior Change

Criticism Over Coffee Cup Waste Leads to Starbucks Discount, Call to Go Biodegradable

Published on March 22, 2016

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A successful campaign led by chef-turned-activist Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall drew attention to a big problem: coffee cup waste. Fearnley-Whittingstall claims that in the UK, less than 6 million takeaway hot beverage cups are recycled each year, whil... View More

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Innovation & Technology Innovation & Technology

5 Steps Every Food Retailer Should Take to Eliminate Food Waste

Published on February 5, 2016

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Campaigners for action on food waste have had much to celebrate recently. The Rockefeller Foundation launched YieldWise, a $130 million initiative to tackle loss between farm and market and demonstrating how the world can halve food loss by 2030. Thi... View More

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Collaboration & Co-Creation Collaboration & Co-Creation

What Now? How Businesses Are Rallying to Action After COP21

Published on December 17, 2015

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As evidenced by the unprecedented private-sector engagement in COP21 earlier this month, businesses globally get that they need to innovate (and improve!) their products, services and business models to combat climate change, resource scarcity and un... View More

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Collaboration & Co-Creation Collaboration & Co-Creation

CI, Starbucks Aiming to Make Coffee World's First Sustainably Sourced Agricultural Product

Published on December 7, 2015

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Conservation International (CI), in partnership with Ceres and industry leaders such as Starbucks and Keurig Green Mountain, have announced a call to action to make coffee the first sustainably sourced agricultural product in the world. The Sustainab... View More

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Collaboration & Co-Creation Collaboration & Co-Creation

WRAP, Starbucks Dig Into How to Drive Business Model Transformation Inside a Company

Published on November 17, 2015

About a 7 minute read

It was the job of Zöe Arden, director of think-tank SustainAbility, to kick-start the workshop sessions on Monday morning at SB ’15 London with a focus on how to drive business model transformation from inside a company. This workshop was a develo... View More

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Organizational Governance Organizational Governance

General Mills, IKEA Among Latest Global Players to Join White House Climate Action Pledge

Published on October 21, 2015

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General Mills, IKEA and Best Buy are among the 81 companies to recently join the White House-led American Business Act on Climate Pledge, which sets significant greenhouse gas reduction and renewable energy sourcing goals for 2020 and beyond.The pled... View More

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Innovation & Technology Innovation & Technology

#BusinessCase: Why Renewable Energy Will Make or Break Business Success

Published on October 16, 2015

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World leaders have shaken hands on the new Sustainable Development Goals that will hopefully be shaping global and local agendas and policies over the next 15 years. The UN Sustainable Development summit coincided with the 7th edition of Climate Week... View More

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Organizational Governance Organizational Governance

Starbucks UK to Give 'Home Sweet Loans' to Employees Under 25, Living Wage to All

Published on October 2, 2015

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Starbucks UK has announced it is going beyond government recommendations for the National Living Wage and will be the first private company to implement housing and homelessness charity Shelter’s Tenancy Deposit Loan Scheme, to help its employees m... View More

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Innovation & Technology

Climate Week: Climate Neutral Now, RE100 Initiatives Recruit Fortune 500 Companies

Published on September 22, 2015

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Two initiatives for reducing businesses’ impacts on the environment have attracted globally recognized brands this week at Climate Week NYC.On Tuesday, the United Nations (UN) announced a new initiative to help businesses and individuals reduce the... View More

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Stakeholder Trends and Insights

Starbucks Facing Increased Consumer Pressure to Go Deforestation-Free

Published on August 18, 2015

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Like one of its baristas, Starbucks has given consumers warm words but has been a bit slow in delivering the goods.In 2013, Starbucks announced it would source 100 percent of its palm oil from certified sustainable suppliers by 2015, but the company ... View More

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Innovation & Technology Innovation & Technology

How to Rewire Business: SustainAbility Releases Second 'Model Behavior' Report

Published on June 19, 2015

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Despite bold efforts to make companies’ processes and products more sustainable, many businesses that flourish today are inherently unsustainable. Companies must fundamentally change their modus operandi to survive in a future of resource scarcity ... View More

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Organizational Governance Organizational Governance

How to Drive Business Model Transformation from Inside Your Company

Published on June 5, 2015

About a 5 minute read

I attended a half-dozen panels during the first three days at SB ‘15 San Diego, each addressing a specific business function. I listened closely as experts shared case studies on incorporating sustainability into marketing, supply chain, employee e... View More

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