Upcoming Events

Exploring Opportunities for Joint Action on Net Positive

New York

Date and Time

Wednesday July 8, 2015
9:00 am-5:00 pm EDT

Location

New York

Topics

#Strategy and Integration

Sustainability is evolving to focus much more on the benefits companies bring to society even as they reduce their impacts. There is significant potential to accelerate this movement so that more companies make net positive and other benefits-focused commitments.

A number of organizations are driving this issue forward, but additional alignment is needed to avoid fragmentation and increase scale and impact. BSR, Forum for the Future, and the Sustainability and Health Initiative for NetPositive Enterprise at Harvard University, will gather companies and partners to identify opportunities for greater alignment and possible joint action to accelerate and scale our collective impact. This event is supported by Dell.

Reports

Key Considerations in Managing ESG through a Merger

Laura Gitman, Chief Operating Officer, BSR; Elisabeth Best, Former Manager, Sustainability Management, BSR; Michaela Lee, Manager, BSR

As business leaders across industries pursue M&A activity, there will be substantial ESG opportunities and risks for the companies involved: opportunities to create more ambitious and resilient sustainability strategies, accompanied by risks that ESG objectives will be sidelined by overwhelming pressures to create short-term value.

Mergers Are Coming: How to Manage ESG through the M&A Process

Laura Gitman, Chief Operating Officer, BSR; Aimee Louise Bataclan, Manager, Communications and Marketing, BSR

BSR has developed a primer, Managing ESG through a Merger, to help Chief Sustainability Officers (CSOs), their teams, and internal allies navigate the M&A process to leverage and enhance ESG-related programs and priorities.

Human Rights Policy Engagement: The Role of Companies

Salah Husseini, Associate Director, Human Rights, BSR; Aron Cramer, President and CEO, BSR; Bennett Freeman, , BSR; Michelle Nadboy, Associate, BSR

It is increasingly important for business not only to maintain its commitments to respect human rights, but also to find new ways to support the work of governments for such effort

Human Rights Policy Engagement: The Role of Companies

Salah Husseini, Associate Director, Human Rights, BSR; Aron Cramer, President and CEO, BSR; Bennett Freeman, , BSR

It is increasingly important for business not only to maintain its commitments to respect human rights, but also to find new ways to support the work of governments for such efforts.

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