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Faris Natour, Director, Human Rights and Dunstan Allison Hope, Managing Director, Advisory Services, BSR The debate about how human rights abuses are portrayed in movies, films, and video games is almost as old as the entertainment industry itself. It reached a new peak this year with...
A decade ago, Apple made a splash with its “Think Different” advertising campaign. Today, with Apple in the headlines concerning labor conditions in its supply chain, it’s time for all of us to think different about how to improve the lives of the millions of workers making the produc...
Tomorrow, the Economist ’s World Ocean Summit in Singapore will highlight for an audience of global business leaders the latest concerns about threats to our oceans, and how business activities are impacting this ecosystem. While all of us can play a role in caring for our ocean resou...
This notion of sharing a messy work-in-progress to audiences engaged in the business of sustainability is not new. Retail giant Walmart, for one, has been telling the story of its long and complicated sustainability journey for many years now, opening itself up to everything from caus...
In Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edward Humes’ latest book, Force of Nature , Walmart is the unlikely hero in a tale about the environment and sustainability, which Humes calls “the most important story of our age.” I spoke with Humes—who will discuss sustainability storytelling at th...
With sustainability reporting season in high gear, more company leaders are thinking about how social media plays into their overall reporting communications strategy. Social media can be a powerful tool for stakeholder engagement. It can broaden your reach, help source new ideas from...
Some think of sustainability reporting as a tack-on to a company’s strategy—that it’s all a bunch of granola that doesn’t matter to meat-and-potatoes management decisions. Yet sustainability reporting offers a tremendous opportunity to generate and communicate management insight, deve...
I’ve been a proponent of increased sustainability reporting and transparency since the late 1990s. I produced one of the world’s first “written-for-the-web” sustainability reports while at BT in 2001. I’ve also been heavily involved in the recent internet and human rights agenda, advi...
