· »Chronos is an exciting new e-learning tutorial on the business case for sustainable development, designed to equip employees with the knowledge they need to deliver on corporate priorities.«

· Versions: English, Brazil, Spanish

· »WBCSD member companies receive a 50 per cent discount on prices.«

o News > e.g.

§ Speech library

· SustainAbility (Headquartered: UK - London, Founder: John Elkington) > e.g.

o Consultancy >

§ Services > e.g.

· Strategy Development & Business Case

· Corporate Governance

· Operational Effectiveness

· Issues & Trends Analysis

· Non-financial Risk Management

· Corporate Reporting > e.g.

o Materiality Issue Brief (2 pp.)

§ Clients & Case Studies

o Think Tank >

§ Research > e.g.

· Taxing Issues – Responsible Business and Tax

· Corporate Governance

· Liability > e.g.

o The Changing Landscape of Liability: A Director's Guide to Trends in Corporate Environmental, Social and Economic Liability (2004, 48 pp.)

· The Business Case > e.g.

o Developing Value: The Business Case for Sustainability in Emerging Markets (2002, 64 pp.; With IFC and Ethos Institute)

o Buried Treasure: Uncovering the Business Case for Corporate Sustainability (2001, 62 pp.; »The Sustainable Business Value Matrix«)

· Reporting > e.g.

o Learn from the Leaders (an online, searchable database and customized research tool that brings together years of experience reviewing, analyzing and benchmarking sustainability reports)

§ Database includes hundreds of best practice examples, and you can search them in dozens of different ways, including:

· SustainAbility’s Global Reporters benchmarking criteria: also

o Governance and strategy > also

§ Business case

o Tomorrow's Value: The Global Reporters 2006 Survey of Corporate Sustainability Reporting (November 2006; .pdf has 36 pp.)

§ Tomorrow’s Value, SustainAbility’s fourth international benchmark of corporate sustainability reporting, has once again been developed in partnership with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and Standard & Poor's.

§ Tomorrow’s Value signals the start of the coming race to demonstrate that sustainability strategies, performance and reporting can deliver — and are delivering — value and competitive benefits.

§ Key findings of the 2006 benchmark survey include (also):

· Yesterday’s risks are mutating into tomorrow’s opportunities for value creation.

· Sustainability drills into core business processes.

§ From the »Contents«, e.g.:

· The Corporate DNA Test

o (examines the degree that reporting shows sustainability integrated into core management processes.)

· Value

o (describes the evolution of reporting on value creation.)

o The Global Reporters 2004 Survey of Corporate Sustainability Reporting: Risk & Opportunity: Best Practice in Non-Financial Reporting (October 2004, 56 pp.)

§ By: SustainAbility, UNEP (.pdf) & Standard and Poor's

· Complete List of Reports

· BITC Business in the Community (UK) > e.g.

o Take action >

§ Responsible business >

· Measurement

· Strategy

· Integration

· Governance

· Reporting

§ In the workplace

§ In the community

§ In the marketplace

§ In the environment

o Resources > e.g.

§ Publications > e.g.

· Looking Back, Moving Forward: Building the business case for environmental improvement (June 2006, no .pdf version, only paper ??)

o Produced by BITC and Bureau Veritas

o The document uses ten years of Environment Index data and case studies from leading companies to build the business case for improving environmental impacts.

· Rewarding Virtue: effective board action on corporate responsibility (December 2005)

· Indicators That Count (July 2003)

· The Emerging Relationship between Financial & Environmental Performance (February 2002)

o »In summary, there appears to be a link between environmental performance and financial performance.«

· Winning With Integrity (November 2000)

§ Statistics and facts

§ >?>

· Business Case for Responsible Business

o Reputation management

o Employee satisfaction, retention and recruitment

o Innovation and learning

o Risk, change and total management

o Cost of capital

o Financial performance

o Global responsibility

· ADL Arthur D. Little >

o Services > Sustainability & Risk >

§ Thought Leadership (Free registration required) >

· The Carbon Margin (December 2007)

· New Report: integrity + innovation = performance (August 2007)

· The Innovation High Ground (July 2005)

· Business Case for Corporate Responsibility (December 2003; With BITC; .pdf has 12 pp.)

· Speaking the Same Language (June 2003; With BITC; .pdf has 16 pp.)

o »Investors and companies are still not having a meaningful dialogue about the business value of CR...«

· BSR Business for Social Responsibility (Based in San Francisco, USA) > e.g.

o Insight >

§ Reports > e.g.

· Climate Change > e.g.

o Beyond Neutrality: Moving Your Company Toward Climate Leadership (.pdf, October 2007, 42 pp.)

§ Leading Perspectives > e.g.

· Spring 2006: Measuring CSR Performance (.pdf, 24 pp.)

§ Issue Briefs

· BSR's Issue Briefs provide critical summary information on the full spectrum of corporate social responsibility issues. These 53 Issue Briefs are grouped into primary topic areas:

o business ethics; community investment; environment; general CSR; governance and accountability; human rights; marketplace; and workplace

· The Issue Briefs are designed as primers. As such each paper provide an overview of the topic and is divided into sections covering:

o business benefits, key developments, external standards, implementation steps, leadership examples, sample polices, awards and recognition programs, and links to relevant resources.

o Conference > e.g.

§ 2007 (23-26 October; San Francisco, CA)

· Designing a Sustainable Future

§ 2006 (7-10 November 2006; New York, NY):

· »Innovative Strategies - Measurable Impacts«

o »How do you know CSR is working for your company?«

§ 2005 (1-4 November; Washington, DC):

· »Questioning Assumptions - Changing Frameworks«

§ 2004 (9-12 November; New York, NY):

· »Integrating CSR: New Risks, New Rewards«

§ 2003 (11-14 November; Los Angeles, California):

· »Building and Sustaining Solutions«

· The Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship (USA) > e.g.

o Convenings > e.g.

§ Conferences > e.g.

· information about past conferences, including links to video and audio of keynote speakers and presentations from working sessions

· > e.g.

o 2007 - Corporate Citizenship: How it Really Works

§ March 25-27, San Francisco

· »At The Center, we've witnessed an exciting shift in the questions we receive, with professionals being less concerned about building the case for corporate citizenship and more concerned with making it work. This shift is a strong indicator of the progress businesses are making in building corporate citizenship into core strategies and operations.«

o 2006 - If Corporate Citizenship is the Answer, What is the Question

§ March 26-28; Orlando

o 2005 - Mapping the Future of Corporate Citizenship: Redefining the Markers for Business Success

§ April 3-5; Boston

o 2004 - Margins to Mainstream: Integrating Corporate Citizenship into the Business Core

§ March 28-30; San Francisco

o Knowledge Center >

§ Search the Resource Library > Search by:

· Topic (49 different) > e.g.

o Business case

§ Or / also Center Publications > e.g.

· Research Reports > e.g.

o The State of Corporate Citizenship in the U.S.: Business Perspectives in 2005 (23 September 2005; .pdf has 52 pages)

§ »This second in a biennial series delves into the corporate citizenship motivations, challenges, priorities and investments of 1,189 small, medium, and large businesses across the United States«

o Integration: Critical Link for Corporate Citizenship; Strategies and Stories from Eight Companies (24 March 2005)

§ Newsletter > e.g.

· March 2008>

o Corporate Responsibility: Going Beyond the Business Case (By Chad Tragakis)

§ Corporate Citizenship Tools (Introduced in February 2006)

· »Our Corporate Citizenship Tools are provided as a special benefit available only to Center members.«

o > e.g.

§ Facts and Figures > e.g.

· Business Case

· GLN Global Leadership Network

o »is a partnership among 10 leading global companies committed to achieving world-class performance excellence in corporate citizenship, along with research partners The Center for Corporate Citizenship at Boston College and AccountAbility (UK).«

o > e.g.

§ Library >

· Making the Business Case for Corporate Citizenship (for members only)

· See also:

o UN Global Compact (UN GC) >

§ News & Events >

· Leaders Summit 2007 (5-6 July 2007, Geneva) >

o News items on the 2007 Leaders Summit >

§ Official Launch of the GLN Global Compact Implementation Tool >

· GLN open access

o A tool to promote the integration of responsible business practices into core business strategy (= interactive strategic planning tool and other learning resources to promote corporate citizenship as a key driver of business success.)

· SB NOW Sustainable Business Network of Washington >

o What is CR / P3 / Corporate citizenship? >

§ The Business Case = Does Corporate Responsibility and a Focus on Sustainability Pay? (links to external resources)

· Harvard University >>

o John F. Kennedy School of Government >

§ Research >

· Programs >

o Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government (Cambridge, USA) >

§ Programs >

· Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative (Director: Jane Nelson; Faculty Chair: John G. Ruggie) > e.g.

o Publications

o Calendar > 2007-2008 > November 28, 2007 > Does It Pay to Be Good? Looking Back (and Ahead) at Research on Corporate Social and Financial Performance (.pdf, November 2007, 57 pp.; By: Joshua Margolis, Harvard Business School and Hillary Anger Elfenbein, Haas School of Business)

· HBR Harvard Business Review > e.g.

o >>

§ Climate Business | Business Climate (October 2007)

§ Competitive Advantage on a Warming Planet (March 2007)

§ The December 2006 Harvard Business Review contains several articles in the CSR realm, including a new take on the link between competitive advantage and CSR by Michael Porter.

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