Are You Measuring Your Company’s Full Value Creation?
It matters to business success whether products and companies offer community, societal, and environmental benefits. And these benefits create value—to natural systems and human societies—that can be measured.
Sustainability Management
Building a Culture of Integrity to Transform the Maritime Industry
Rather than resolving issues as they arise or worsen, the Maritime Anti-Corruption Network now aims to shift the integrity culture of the maritime sector to a point where corruption is no longer entertained as a possibility in any port.
Human Rights
Human Rights by Design
Based on lessons learned from our recent human rights work, we have begun exploring the concept of “human rights by design,” which we believe could be essential for the long-term success of the business and human rights discipline.
Supply Chain | Collaboration | Climate Change
Three Reasons Why Collaboration Is Key to Green Freight
Through the Clean Cargo Working Group, which now represents 85 percent of ocean container shipping volume, we have seen the value to companies in addressing challenges collaboratively.
Sustainability Management
Calling All Sustainability Reporting Practitioners
We're launching a new collaborative initiative to provide a space for practitioners to share learnings, insights, and perspectives and address important questions about the future of sustainability reporting.
Inside BSR
Turning Global Challenges into Collaborative Solutions: BSR’s Collaborative Initiatives
This year, we're strengthening BSR’s capacity to convene business and stakeholders on collaborative initiatives that generate concrete positive outcomes for business, societies, and the environment.
Sustainability Management
Redefining Business Leadership in a New Environment
As we witness a systematic assault on the foundations for a just and sustainable world, a new question is arising: How do companies and CEOs respond when basic principles are under attack?
Sustainability Management
Corporate Transparency under a Trump Administration
Three main implications for the future of corporate transparency point to the increasing importance of proactive and strategic approaches.
Sustainability Management
When the Business Case and Shared Value Aren’t Enough
Yes, businesses have to earn profits and provide a return to their investors, but has the focus on a business case for everything undermined what it means to be a good corporate citizen?
Sustainability Management
Four Stakeholder Engagement Trends to Watch in 2017
There are clear drivers in today's operating environment for multinationals to rethink their approaches to risk, resilience, and corporate responsibility. Here are four stakeholder trends to pay attention to this year.
Women’s Empowerment | Technology
Advancing Women’s Empowerment, at Work and Home, through the Technology Sector
By strengthening transparency in reporting and offering innovative products and services for all, ICT companies can help advance women as skilled professionals and empowered individuals.
Supply Chain | Climate Change
Forging the Missing Link: What the 2017 CDP Supply Chain Report Says About Supplier Engagement
Although in many ways encouraging, our findings in this year's report highlighted the need for urgency.
Supply Chain
How Good Is Your Sustainable Supply Chain Program?
Sustainable supply chain management means operating in uncertainty, without clear guidance on universal standards on what constitutes best practice. A BSR tool can help companies benchmark their responsible sourcing programs and assess how to improve.
Climate Change
A Letter to the Trump Administration: Federal Climate Policy Can Boost the Economy
As Trump prepares to move into the Oval Office, we urge his administration to consider the view of business and the resounding support from citizens and governments and pursue a clear federal climate policy.
Women’s Empowerment
Driving Collective Action on Women’s Empowerment
In partnership with Win-Win Strategies and supported by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, we ask you to join us as we launch Business Action for Women, a collaborative initiative for companies aimed at driving collective action on progress for women.