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Continuous Improvement Partnership Approach

Saturday Oct 23, 2010

BSR Staff

This report was prepared by BSR in collaboration with the Beyond Monitoring Working Group for the purpose of defining a practical approach to supply chain partnerships between companies and their suppliers. The report presents initial principles and a process for engagement in this area, along with management systems criteria, which can be used to evaluate suppliers' systems and guide the process of improvement.

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The US$660 Billion Sustainable Supply Chain Finance Opportunity

Tara Norton, Managing Director, BSR; Charlotte Bancilhon, Manager, BSR; Christoph Karge, Associate, BSR

Our new report, Win-Win-Win: The Sustainable Supply Chain Finance Opportunity, shows how supply chain and trade finance mechanisms can be leveraged to create tangible cash incentives for suppliers, drive sustainable behaviors, and transform global supply chains.

Win-Win-Win: The Sustainable Supply Chain Finance Opportunity

Charlotte Bancilhon, Manager, BSR; Christoph Karge, Associate, BSR; Tara Norton, Managing Director, BSR

This report seeks to demystify the US$6 billion revenue opportunity for financial service providers to integrate sustainability considerations into supply chain finance, allowing buyers, suppliers, and financial service providers to create mechanisms that reward and incentivize sustainable behavior in supply chains.

We Need to Talk about Blockchain—Together.

Tara Norton, Managing Director, BSR; Michael Rohwer, Associate Director, Information and Communications Technology, BSR

Blockchain offers immense opportunities to achieve business and sustainability goals, but it is going to take serious collaboration to unleash its full potential.

Five Years after Rana Plaza, We Still Must Do More to Empower Women Workers in Bangladesh

Marat Yu, Manager, BSR

Brands, suppliers, and the development community can do these four things to further the empowerment of women workers in Bangladesh and elsewhere.

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