Reports

BSR’s Center for Sustainable Procurement: Year 1 Findings and Insights

Tuesday Jun 18, 2013

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Tuesday Jun 18, 2013

Celine Suarez, Former Manager, BSR

Eric Olson, Senior Vice President, BSR

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The research draws lessons from three yearlong pilot projects with AT&T, Best Buy, and Dell, as well as from Hilton Worldwide's proprietary LightStay platform. The CSP is developing tools and approaches for sustainable procurement that will benefit the wider network of companies interested in integrating this into their overall sustainability priorities. The pilot projects—conducted with BSR member companies selected based on their existing supply chain sustainability focus and a high level of buy-in for this work—examined how companies can make sustainable procurement decisions in specific product categories covering a spectrum of challenges.

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Blog

Five Trends Defining the Future of Retail

Elisa Niemtzow, Managing Director, BSR; Jacob Park, Director, Sustainable Futures Lab, BSR

Retail is changing in complex ways, and the future will look quite different from today. We need to prepare now for new challenges, but also for new opportunities to drive more sustainable consumption patterns, promote diversity and inclusion, and meet emerging consumer needs.

Supply Chain Sustainability in a Rapidly Changing World

Dunstan Allison-Hope, Managing Director, BSR; Tara Norton, Managing Director, BSR; Elisabeth Best, Manager, Sustainability Management, BSR

We share our thoughts, based on our work with Telenor, on relevant global shifts transforming telecommunications supply chains and best practices for companies in the industry to improve supply chain sustainability in the future.

One Year In: Meeting the Global Impact Sourcing Challenge

Sara Enright, Associate Director, BSR; Martin Benderson, Manager, BSR

The Global Impact Sourcing Coalition and its membership are creating more job opportunities and providing a sustainable career path to people who otherwise have limited prospects for formal employment.

Three Ways for Companies to Promote Women’s Leadership across the Supply Chain

Dominic Kotas, Communications Associate, Collaborative Initiatives, BSR

Through individual and collective action, companies have the chance not just to promote women as leaders but to become leaders on women’s empowerment—and there has never been a better time to do so.

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