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Aug

August 13, 2020

Building Strategic Resilience Using BSR’s COVID-19 Scenarios

Jacob Park, Director, Sustainable Futures Lab, BSR; Beth Richmond, Manager, BSR; Charlotte Bancilhon, Associate Director, BSR; Eileen Gallagher, Associate Director, BSR; Margot Brent, Associate, BSR

The COVID-19 pandemic—and resulting economic, political, and social crisis—is the most profound global disruption in decades. To help our members, partners, and community navigate this uncertain time, BSR is publishing a set of three scenarios, each depicting a different possible future in 2025.

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Apr

April 22, 2019

Five Trends Defining the Future of Retail

Elisa Niemtzow, Vice President, Consumer Sectors and Global Membership, 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 #Sustainable Futures Lab

Jan

January 22, 2019

How Futures Thinking Can Help Us Shape Globalization 4.0

Aron Cramer, President and CEO, BSR

Futures thinking is an invaluable tool in informing and testing strategies for the next era of globalization.

#Sustainability Management #Sustainable Futures Lab

Dec

December 11, 2018

Are You Prepared for the Future of Business and Human Rights?

Dunstan Allison-Hope, Vice President, BSR; Jacob Park, Director, Sustainable Futures Lab, BSR

Futures and strategic foresight methodologies offer a new way to promote respect for human rights and the freedoms they protect.

#Human Rights #Sustainability Management #Sustainable Futures Lab

Nov

November 29, 2018

How to Implement the TCFD Recommendations

Giulio Berruti, Associate Director, Climate, BSR; David Wei, Managing Director, BSR

Everything you need to know about implementing the recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD).

#Reporting and Communications #Sustainability Management #Sustainable Futures Lab

Nov

November 6, 2018

Is Your Business Ready for a Radically Different Future?

Jacob Park, Director, Sustainable Futures Lab, BSR

During times of rapid change, the greatest danger lies in being unable to imagine radically different futures.

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Oct

October 16, 2018

The Future Is on the Agenda at BSR18—Will You Join Us?

Aron Cramer, President and CEO, BSR

At the BSR Conference 2018, we will introduce four possible scenarios for 2030 that can help you and your company make sense of the evolving world over the coming years and decades.

#BSR Conference #Sustainability Management #Sustainable Futures Lab

Oct

October 8, 2018

Four Ways to Enhance Your Materiality Assessment

Denielle Harrison, Manager, BSR

This is how to leverage data analytics, artificial intelligence, futures thinking, and other innovative approaches to inform your sustainability strategy.

#Materiality #Sustainability Management #Sustainable Futures Lab

Jul

July 23, 2018

How to Implement the TCFD Recommendations to Enhance Your Company’s Resilience

Jacob Park, Director, Sustainable Futures Lab, BSR; David Wei, Managing Director, BSR

Businesses should approach TCFD recommendation implementation not merely as a disclosure exercise, but as an important opportunity to enhance their strategic resilience.

#Climate Change #Reporting and Communications #Sustainable Futures Lab

Jan

January 29, 2018

Managing Sustainable Business in a Rapidly Changing World

Alison Taylor, Senior Advisor, BSR

The era of stand-alone sustainability strategies needs to end; the creation of resilient business strategies with sustainability at the foundation needs to begin. Here's how practitioners can reimagine sustainable business inside their organizations.

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