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BSR/GlobeScan State of Sustainable Business Poll 2010

Tuesday Nov 2, 2010

BSR Staff

#Strategy and Integration, #Sustainability Management,

Nearly all (94 percent) of the 377 respondents, drawn from a majority of BSR's global network of more than 250 member companies, also said that their companies plan to maintain or increase their budgets for CSR/sustainability programs in the year ahead, and nearly three-quarters expect to increase the amount of internal and external CSR/sustainability communications as well.

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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.

Key Considerations in Managing ESG through a Merger

Laura Gitman, Chief Operating Officer, BSR; Elisabeth Best, 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

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