Organizational Change
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CVS Health Redesigns Stores to Further Improve Health of Its Offerings
CVS Health announced this week it is harnessing the power of design to activate its purpose. The national drugstore chain is rolling out a new store renovation project that builds on its mission to help people on their path to better health.
After HQ Scores LBC Certification, Etsy Shares Software to Monitor Building Waste Streams
When Etsy began the process of creating a new global headquarters in Brooklyn, NY, it saw an opportunity to drive change, to set a new standard for sustainable construction and design and to create a space that reflected its values, especially those related to community, craft, and sustainability.
In Search of Sustainable Leadership: Managing Transitions
This is the third in a series of articles examining the many facets of ‘sustainable leadership.’ Find links to the entire series below. The first step in our search for sustainable leadership has shown how purpose and values can make us more able to handle change. Managed correctly, this generates a form of competitive advantage that grows stronger with each challenge we face, making other leadership models “obsolete.” This article looks in more detail at how we can achieve this.
In Search of Sustainable Leadership: Building Antifragile Competitive Advantage
This is the second in a series of articles examining ‘sustainable leadership’ and what it entails. Find links to the full series below. We start our search for sustainable leadership with a quote from Buckminster Fuller: “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” This rule has applied to all successful innovations, from the bronze age that replaced the stone age, to the iron age, the industrial revolution, electricity and smartphones; these innovations succeeded because they made what existed before obsolete.
21st-Century Corporate Citizenship, Ch. 4: Connecting Corporate Citizenship to Business Strategy
This is an excerpt of a chapter from the newly released book, 21st-Century Corporate Citizenship (Emerald Insight, 2017), by Dave Stangis, Chief Sustainability Officer and VP of Corporate Responsibility at Campbell Soup Company; and Katherine Valvoda Smith, executive director of the Center for Corporate Citizenship Carroll School of Management at Boston College.
The Right Way – and Wrong Way – to Embrace Purpose as the New Way to Do Business
Today’s employees want more from their employer than a paycheque. They crave a sense of pride and fulfillment and want to work for a company whose values match their own. A recent UK report found that companies with a social mission have a significant competitive advantage when attracting and retaining employees.
Trending: Tesco, Quebec Target Food Waste with New Hotline, Recovery Program
Tackling food waste continues to be a top priority for the food industry and local governments, and two new initiatives in the UK and Canada present important opportunities to reduce environmental impacts while improving public health.
How Health Care Is Pushing Sustainability Ahead of Consumer Demand
Over the last few years, we’ve seen consumer demand accelerate the push for corporate responsibility in business. Consumers today aren’t just paying lip service to good causes; more are choosing to ‘vote with their dollars,’ seeking out and purchasing products from companies that align with their values.
Deloitte Seeking to Increase Board Diversity by Highlighting the Lack of It
Can new information incite change? Deloitte is hoping so. The firm is focusing on diversity in corporate boardrooms, with the intent of helping executives understand just how important it is to include women and minorities in the boardroom picture. As part of the Alliance for Board Diversity, one of Deloitte’s aims is to increase board diversity to 40 percent representation from women and minorities, combined, by 2020. At the current rate, it looks like that won’t happen until 2026.
Heathrow Moves Towards Carbon Neutrality with New Sustainability Strategy
London’s Heathrow Airport has unveiled a new sustainability leadership strategy designed to make Heathrow a center of excellence in the aviation industry. The strategy announces ambitious goals to reduce the airport’s and the industry’s environmental impacts while maximizing economic opportunities throughout the UK. Plans include a new R&D incubator, an ambition for growth from a new runway to be carbon neutral and at least halving the number of late-running departures to reduce noise for local communities.
New Report Reveals How Heineken Is Brewing a Better World
Today, Heineken N.V. released its 2016 Annual Report, marking the first time the company has combined its annual and sustainability report into one document.
Twinings Puts Communities First with New SDG-Aligned Framework
Just days after WWF and ISEAL released a new report highlighting the importance of aligning sustainability standards with the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), tea brand Twinings announced a new framework designed to improve the lives of tea workers in its supply chain.
Beverage Industry Environmental Roundtable Releases Toolkit for Sustainability Planning
The Beverage Industry Environmental Roundtable (BIER) has launched a new Future Scenarios Toolkit in an effort to provide informed future planning guidance. The toolkit offers companies a clear and robust framework to analyze potential future scenarios regarding impacts (social, environmental, governmental, etc.) to their business, their supply chain, and their production, as well as successfully prepare to tackle those scenarios.
Governance and Sustainability: The New Normal
Wild fires, flooding, distracted driving and emotional wellness concerns cost Canadians billions of dollars in 2016.
Policy Wonking Could Be Relevant, Maybe Fun? A Review of the Social Costs of Carbon
The third of a three-part proposal for using sustainability to recharge America's problem-solving. Read parts one and two.
Q&A: How DONG Energy Plans to Phase Out Coal by 2023
Back in 2006, Danish energy company DONG Energy was one of the most coal-intensive utilities in Europe, with only 15 percent of its heat and power coming from renewables. In just one decade, the company has completely transformed itself into one of Europe’s cleanest, most sustainable energy companies. Fifty-five percent of DONG’s heat and power is now renewable, and Denmark’s largest energy company now ranks 11th on the Carbon Clean 200 list — a ranking of 200 companies from around the world that are profiting from sustainable energy.
4 Reasons Youth Innovation Challenges Should Be Part of Your Sustainability Rebrand
Despite – and/or because of – the recent seismic shift in U.S. political leadership on sustainability, companies are looking for ways to continue embracing corporate action that makes both economic and environmental sense.
Unilever Unveils Game-Changing Fragrance Transparency Initiative
Multinational consumer goods company Unilever announced a new transparency measure today that will provide consumers with access to additional fragrance ingredient information for its personal care products.
On 40 Years Watching the Sustainable Business Field
The second of a three-part proposal for using sustainability to recharge America's problem-solving.
DONG Energy, Tetra Pak Announce Bold New Climate Goals
There’s no stopping the low carbon economy. Two major announcements from DONG Energy and Tetra Pak could set new industry standards and pave the way for others to follow suit. DONG Energy has decided to phase out the use of coal at its power stations entirely by 2023. The decision is in line with the company’s goal of reducing its CO2 emissions in power and heat generation by 96 percent compared to 2006.