Reports

Back to the Future of CSR: A Retrospective on ‘Fade, Integrate, or Transform’

Wednesday Jan 19, 2011

BSR Staff

#Strategy and Integration, #Sustainability Management,

Where is CSR headed in the coming decade? Five years ago, we asked this question and framed a response in the form of three scenarios: fade, integrate, and transform. Today, a picture has emerged that is both encouraging and disappointing. Although CSR has more than survived amid the worst global economic downturn in the post-WWII era, truly disruptive change in mission, strategy, and practice has been limited to relatively few leading companies.

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Reports

Redefining Sustainable Business: Management for a Rapidly Changing World

Aron Cramer, President and CEO, BSR; Dunstan Allison-Hope, Managing Director, BSR; Alison Taylor, Managing Director, Sustainability Management, BSR; Beth Richmond, Manager, BSR; Charlotte Bancilhon, Associate Director, BSR

This report provides a guide for sustainability practitioners to create resilient business strategies, governance, and management so that their companies are fit for a disruptive world.

Time’s Up: Women Should Be Front and Center of Corporate Human Rights Due Diligence

Magali Barraja, Associate Director, BSR; Salah Husseini, Associate Director, Human Rights, BSR; Dunstan Allison-Hope, Managing Director, BSR

The UNGP report "Gender Dimensions of the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights" has the primary objective of putting an end to gender-blind human rights due diligence and access to remedy. This report reinforces BSR’s position that places gender equality at the heart of its initiatives, programs, and tools.

Exploring Employee Activism: Why This Stakeholder Group Can No Longer Be Ignored

Alison Taylor, Managing Director, Sustainability Management, BSR

For companies used to thinking about stakeholder engagement as an external-facing exercise, the strength and speed of staff unrest has been a surprise. Companies in all sectors need to start regarding employees as their most significant interest group.

A Five-Step Approach to Engaging Investors on Sustainability

Charlotte Bancilhon, Associate Director, BSR

Companies that are not engaging investors on sustainability are missing an opportunity to attract and retain investors focused on long-term value and ESG.

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