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  • The Leading Edge of Sustainability

    New Spheres, New Mindsets, New Models

    11 Jan 2011 – Article

    We kicked off our 2010 Engaging Stakeholders members workshops with a discussion on sustainability leadership. Here are highlights of the themes that emerged.

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  • Employee Engagement: Hearts and Minds

    A conversation with John Marshall Roberts

    15 Dec 2010 – Conversation

    Once considered almost as a by-product of a company’s sustainability strategy, employee engagement on sustainability is now a hot topic, recognized as a crucial driving force for delivering on that strategy.

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  • Five Principles for Sustainable Brands

    Relevant, Responsive, Reliable, Resilient and Transformative

    07 Jun 2010 – Article

    SustainAbility's five principles for ensuring that sustainability is good for brands – and that brands are good for sustainability.

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  • Knaves Turned Honest (Food Ethics Council)

    Can 21st century finance sustain 21st century agriculture?

    01 Mar 2010 – Article

    Alexa Clay and Sophia Tickell look at whether 21st century finance can sustain 21st century agriculture.

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  • Issue Brief: Displacement

    Making displacement work for everyone

    01 Apr 2009 – Article

    This issue brief explores ways in which companies that displace can ensure the rights of the displaced are respected – and in the best of cases, responsible companies can leave them economically and socially better off.

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  • A Silver Lining to the Credit Crisis

    How current pain can become investors’ gain

    04 Nov 2008 – Article

    Peter Zollinger and John Schaetzel on how the current crisis offers the world an opportunity to rethink how to invest for the long-term.

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  • Retail Corporate Sustainability

    Why retailers need to be much more creative in telling their sustainability stories to consumers

    25 May 2008 – Article

    Sustainability criteria are getting more numerous and complicated by the day: How does a consumer decide what to choose when faced with a growing number of labels and standards (e.g. organic, fair trade, local, carbon neutral)?

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  • Anita Roddick: Outsider Rules (openDemocracy)

    24 Sep 2007 – Article

    The achievement of the Body Shop's founder offers ten rich lessons for the entrepreneurs who follow, says John Elkington.

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  • The Rogues of Private Equity (Época Negócios)

    03 Aug 2007 – Article

    The expanding size of private equity deals and the fact that takeovers are increasingly targeting prominent, household name companies add a new urgency to existing concerns around private equity.

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  • How Green is Green Enough? (Época Negócios)

    25 Apr 2007 – Article

    Is recent progress on corporate sustainability likely to be sufficient? In simple terms, how green is green enough – and where do wider social challenges like inequity, corruption or HIV/AIDS fit into the equation?

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  • Brundtland and Sustainability: History's Balance-Sheet (openDemocracy)

    11 Apr 2007 – Article

    A shaping idea of our time is twenty years old. John Elkington tracks the epic journey of "sustainable development", assesses its record, and looks forward.

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  • Issue Brief: Taxing Issues

    What's fair?

    20 Dec 2006 – Article

    How the traditionally opaque world of corporate tax planning is coming under increasing pressure to enhance transparency and demonstrate greater accountability.

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  • Radar: The Diversity Issue

    The Lifeblood of Ecosystems, Cultures, Economies, Communities and Businesses

    14 Aug 2006 – Radar Archive

    This issue takes a closer look at the subject of diversity – what is meant by it, and how companies are tackling it in their operations and value chains.

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  • Taxing Issues

    Responsible business and tax

    14 Mar 2006 – Report

    Taxing Issues calls for corporate tax planning to come out of the shadows and be subject to the same standards of transparency and accountability as corporate environmental and social performance.

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  • Issue Brief: Progressive Alliances

    Scaling up corporate responsibility to address global challenges

    27 Jan 2006 – Article

    How corporate responsibility can be scaled up to make a more substantive contribution to addressing global challenges.

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