BSR Insight Archives: 2012 07
July 31, 2012
Long Live Business
The corporation today is subject to powerful forces—from market dynamics to sustainability challenges to stakeholder demands. In this environment, the best corporate strategies address both sustainability and rapidly changing market conditions to generate business value.
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July 24, 2012
Marc Gunther on Climate Change
According to Marc Gunther, journalist and author of the new ebook Suck It Up, carbon capture and storage has the potential to help solve climate change and create an enormous market opportunity—worth the equivalent of 100 billion barrels or US$10 trillion of oil.
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July 17, 2012
What the Facebook IPO Teaches Us About the Value of Ecosystems
Facebook’s recent IPO valued the company at a record-breaking US$104 billion—roughly US$1 for each of the connections in its “human ecosystem.” This week, BSR Research Manager Linda Hwang considers what it would look like if we valued the connections in nature’s ecosystem much the same way.
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July 10, 2012
Supply Chain Sustainability: Lessons From the Past, Ideas for the Future
Ever since the early 1990s, when Levi Strauss & Co. introduced the first supplier code of conduct and a series of supply chain labor scandals propelled these issues into the public sphere, supply chain sustainability has been a priority across many industries.
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July 3, 2012
Untangling the Data Web to Achieve Truly Sustainable Procurement
In recent years, we’ve seen a wealth of new data emerge to define the relative sustainability of products. However, finding ways to sift through, understand, and then apply this data to the procurement and purchasing of products has lagged. Procurement managers often have to decide on a product’s environmental or social benefits based on as many as 20 to 30 indicators–a daunting task.
