
Women’s Empowerment
Women’s Empowerment and Business: 2020 Trends and Opportunities
This report presents the aggregate findings from the Women’s Empowerment Principles Gender Gap Analysis Tool, in particular how companies are doing in terms of commitment, implementation, measurement, and transparency on gender equality issues.

Supply Chain | Women’s Empowerment
Gender Equality and Social Audits e-Learning
To support social auditors, companies and a broader spectrum of social compliance regulatory organizations, BSR has developed a Gender Equality and Social Audits e-Learning course. The interactive course, consisting of three parts, covers key gender concepts, the business case for addressing gender in social audits, and considerations for tips for ensuring a gender-sensitive approach throughout an audit process.

Consumer Products | Supply Chain | Women’s Empowerment
Supporting Women in the Luxury Supply Chain: A Focus on Italy
Working women in Italy face numerous challenges in the labor market, and little is known about gender equality efforts and the gender gaps impacting women working in the Italian luxury supply chain. BSR and Wise Growth conducted various activities to assist the Kering Group with understanding the challenges faced and opportunities available to women workers.

Collaboration
CoLab Progress Report: Mobilizing the Collective Power of Business
At the BSR Conference in 2018, BSR launched CoLab, an incubator and accelerator of private-sector collaboration, to mobilize the collective power of business to solve some of the world’s biggest sustainability challenges. Its 2019 progress report, Mobilizing the Collective Power of Business, highlights its accomplishments over the past year.

Sustainability Management
The State of Sustainable Business in 2019
The 11th annual BSR/GlobeScan State of Sustainable Business survey provides insights into the world of sustainable business and aims to identify common perceptions and practices of corporate sustainability professionals.

Human Rights
Human Rights Insights: Trends from the Human Rights Working Group’s Summer Meeting
The second round of Human Rights Working Group meetings for 2019 covered topics including human rights methodologies, human rights and supply chains, responsible use of technology and artificial intelligence (AI), legal trends, and human rights governance.

Equity, Inclusion, And Justice
Reducing Poverty through Employment Toolkit
BSR and the Global Impact Sourcing Coalition (GISC) have developed the Reducing Poverty through Employment Toolkit, which provides a range of good practices, case examples, and resources to guide companies on how to get started or how to enhance existing efforts to employ, empower, and improve the advancement prospects of those living in poverty.

Equity, Inclusion, And Justice | Women’s Empowerment
How Business Can Build a ‘Future of Work’ That Works for Women
Businesses have a responsibility not only to help workers prepare and transition for the ‘future of work,’ but also enact strategies that create positive change and economic advances for women. This report outlines how to do so.

Esg | Financial Services | Sustainability Management
Key Considerations in Managing ESG through a Merger
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.

Human Rights
Human Rights Insights: Trends from the Human Rights Working Group’s Spring Meeting
In March and April 2019, BSR’s Human Rights Working Group (HRWG) held its first round of meetings for the year in New York, London, and Tokyo.

Human Rights
Human Rights Policy Engagement: The Role of Companies
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

Supply Chain
The Supply Chain Leadership Ladder 2.0
The Supply Chain Leadership Ladder 2.0 incorporates learnings from our work with companies where we use the framework to identify their level of maturity and ambition, benchmark their practices against their peers, and develop concrete action plans to improve.

Sustainability Management
Five-Step Approach to Stakeholder Engagement
This report provides a comprehensive stakeholder engagement approach and toolkit that will help your company build and retain stakeholder trust in the long term.

Esg | Financial Services
ESG in Private Equity: How To Write a Responsible Investment Policy
Over the past 10 years, the private equity sector has seen responsible investment approaches move from exception to expectation. Formalized integration of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) considerations is becoming the norm. For all firms, a meaningful policy is fundamental to responsible investment and ESG integration.