All Articles About Stakeholder Relations

Report: Mandatory Reporting: BSR Debates the Pros and Cons of Requiring Companies to Report on Sustainability

With more industry leaders beginning to ask whether sustainability reporting should be required, two BSR consultants debate what form it might take, whether mandatory reporting would impact innovation, and what would need to happen in order for such a system to work. Read more →

Posted: February 28, 2010 | Topics: Materiality, Reporting & Communications, Stakeholder Relations, Strategy & Integration | Download (PDF)

BSR Insight Article: Mandatory Reporting: BSR Debates the Pros and Cons of Requiring Companies to Report on Sustainabilit

Interview with Dunstan Allison Hope, Managing Director, ICT Practice, and Blythe Chorn, Associate, Advisory Services, by Eva Dienel, Communications Manager, BSR

At BSR’s most recent conference in October 2009, Ben Verwaayen, the CEO of Alcatel-Lucent, spoke favorably about the need for mandatory sustainability reporting. At a breakout session later that same day, however, many corporate responsibility (CR) practitioners said they opposed mandatory reporting. Read more →

Posted: February 2, 2010 | Topics: Materiality, Reporting & Communications, Stakeholder Relations, Strategy & Integration

BSR Insight Article: Integrating Environmental Performance into Annual Financial Reporting

According to the new report "Turning Questions into Answers: Environmental Issues and Annual Financial Reporting," by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and the Environment Agency, climate-related issues are now driving reporting and assurance in annual financial statements. The report explores this subject in three main sections: Read more →

Posted: November 10, 2009 | Topics: Reporting & Communications, Stakeholder Relations, Strategy & Integration

BSR Insight Article: Integrating Financial and Corporate Responsibility Reporting

Dunstan Allison Hope, Managing Director, Advisory Services

In its 2008 report, United Technologies Corporation included corporate responsibility (CR) topics that have a direct impact on the company’s financial performance, such as energy efficiency, throughout the report. The company also devoted a separate section of its report to its overall CR strategy and performance. Read more →

Posted: November 10, 2009 | Topics: Investor Perspective, Reporting & Communications, Stakeholder Relations, Strategy & Integration

BSR Insight Article: Winning Back the Public’s Trust in Business

Aron Cramer, President and CEO

The fall of Lehman Brothers last September triggered a collapse in financial markets, and then the real economy. It also signaled a dramatic decline in the public’s trust in business. Read more →

Posted: September 8, 2009 | Topics: Financial Services, Governance & Accountability, Reporting & Communications, Return on Investment, Stakeholder Relations, Strategy & Integration