Citizenship & Sustainability

Publications

Executive Action Reports

May 2009	Key Questions in Pandemic Planning This report addresses questions of concern to business managers across sectors, industries, and regions in light of the current resurgence of a global pandemic health threat. File size: 152KB
May 2009	The Potential Economic Impact of the 2009 A(H1N1) Influenza (Swine Flu) Pandemic While it's too early to determine the ultimate scope of the A(H1N1) influenza pandemic, a comparison to the 2003 SARS outbreak shows the economic impact may be short-lived and will not significantly alter long-term trends in global macro economic activity File size: 829KB
May 2009	Action Plans for Dealing With a Global Pandemic This report summarizes the business and health lessons from previous epidemics and provides important insights to managers about dealing with today's pandemic-related issues. File size: 321KB
September 2008	Huddled Masses? Why Helping Immigrants Helps Companies Immigration is a hot-button issue. When it comes to corporate philanthropy, the target should be immigrant integration. The payoff to both business and society can be handsome. File size: 104KB
August 2008	Bridging the Logistical Divide: Integration of Poor Countries in Global Supply Chains This report analyzes the reasons behind the lagging development of the world's poorest countries and offers some solutions for conquering the divide to help those nations achieve sustainable growth. File size: 117KB
May 2008	Company Approaches to Green Products and Services: What's Working and What's Not How can companies use the growing customer demand for so-called green products to their business advantage while minimizing financial and reputational risk? File size: 317KB
April 2008	Coordinating Business Preparedness: Managing Public and Private Efforts An effective partnership between the public and private sectors is essential to ensure the resilience of America's critical infrastructure. File size: 117KB
March 2008	Managing Great Expectations: Reshaping Engagement Strategies to Address Stakeholders' Citizenship and Sustainability Concerns It is critical that a company understand the Citizenship and Sustainability issues relevant to its products, services, and operations, and know how stakeholders perceive its responsiveness to those issues. File size: 131.6KB
March 2008	Going Green: Corporate Commitment to Citizenship and Sustainability Issues Takes on a Greater Role North American companies have placed increased emphasis on corporate citizenship and sustainability issues over the past three years, leading to numerous changes within their organizations. File size: 105KB
February 2008	Investing in the Future—the Importance of Cross-Sector Partnerships in Improving Workforce Readiness With talent gaps looming, businesses have a strong incentive to focus on workforce readiness. File size: 419KB
September 2007	When an Employee's Freedom of Religion Crosses Paths with a Company's Interests As religion increasingly collides with corporate policies and practices, companies are asking what is and isn't permissible behavior — for workers and for themselves. File size: 112KB
June 2007	Corporate Giving Priorities and Challenges in 2007 What are some of the key drivers behind corporate giving programs? A Conference Board survey reveals the priorities and challenges that are affecting corporate philanthropy in 2007. File size: 616KB
February 2007	Risk and Opportunity in the Gathering Climate Change Storm Converging trends and forces are raising the profile of climate change and the need for carbon emissions reduction. Business must prepare to minimize risks and realize the opportunities that are rapidly emerging. File size: 107KB
January 2007	Citizenship and Sustainability: Doing Good Can Be Good for Business While they may not be in the public eye as much as their larger counterparts, small and mid-size companies have a lot to gain by expanding their corporate citizenship and sustainability programs. File size: 129KB
January 2007	How Public-Private Partnerships in Education Can Enhance International Business Competitiveness Roughly three billion new participants are entering the global economic system from countries like Russia, China, India, and Vietnam — increasing risk and competition, as well as opportunity, in this expanded economic universe. File size: 127 KB
December 2006	Toward a Framework for Supply Chain Leadership With no management framework to effectively guide the implementation of Supply Chain Leadership programs, it has largely been a learn-as-you-go endeavor, with many companies learning the same lessons, over and over again. File size: 134 KB
November 2006	Reward Trumps Risk: How Business Perspectives on Corporate Citizenship and Sustainability Are Changing While companies see more potential reward than risk when it comes to corporate citizenship and sustainability (CC&S) issues, they are clearly struggling to find concrete ways to capitalize on their programs in the marketplace. File size: 205KB
October 2006	Carbon Footprint a Growing Management Concern Companies are increasingly focusing on greenhouse gases and their implications for business. Based on 2006 survey results from the research project "Managing for a Carbon-Concerned Future: Obligation or Opportunity?" File size: 2.82KB
September 2006	Philanthropy at Mid-Market Firms: It Pays to Be Creative With a little creativity, midsize companies can make their philanthropic activities stand out, not only providing a wealth of assistance to those in need, but also strengthening their organizations at the same time. File size: 122 KB
September 2006	Global Talent Management: How Businesses Attract, Develop, and Retain the Best As baby boomers head towards retirement and birth rates decline globally, how will companies handle the available talent pool shrinking? File size: 101KB
July 2006	Are Businesses Doing Enough To Prepare for a Pandemic? As the effectiveness of a world response to any pandemic depends upon the quality of advance preparations, this research seeks to clarify the role business plays. File size: 269.75KB
May 2006	Overcoming the Barriers to a Successful Cross-Sector Partnership Businesses and humanitarian organizations are utilizing partnerships to become more efficient in dealing with disaster responses and aid distribution. What barriers need to be overcome to make these partnerships work more easily? File size: 105.4KB
March 2006	The Challenge of Meeting Public Expectations on Sustainable Development Industries that are perceived to be a risk to health, safety, and the environment are adopting new approaches to relieve public concerns regarding their new developments and products. File size: 98.85KB
November 2005	Moving the World - A Case Study in CSR Partnership Moving the World, a unique partnership between TNT and the U.N. shows how two organizations can combine their core strengths to make a life-saving difference - and increase a company's competitiveness and reputation. File size: 109.7 KB
November 2005	Corporate Contributions in 2004 Corporate giving among the largest U.S. corporations is on the rise according to The Conference Board’s annual survey. Results from 133 matched-case companies and corporate foundations reveals their total U.S. giving jumped almost 22 percent in 2004. File size: 111.4 KB
July 2005	Managing Corporate Citizenship Implications of Offshoring How can companies handle operational downsizing/offshoring while treating its departing employees with respect and maintaining its reputation in the community? File size: 126.15KB
July 2005	Corporate Social Responsibility In China: Can Voluntary Codes Succeed? Is there an alternative to laws that are unevenly administered and enforced? A question well worth asking about business practice in all developing economies -- including China. File size: 114.3KB
July 2005	Efficient Grantmaking: Using Technology to Enhance Due Diligence How can grantmakers keep up with overwhelming demands, increasingly complex laws, and decreasing staff members? Is technology the answer? File size: 122.9KB
June 2005	Can U.S. Corporations Change the Way People Think About America? There has been a gradual global erosion of faith in the United States and its government, and in turn consumers worldwide are losing trust in American corporations. Is it time for U.S. corporations to help change the way the U.S. is viewed? File size: 136.2KB
March 2005	Committed Management Builds Sustainable Enterprises This report considers how some Europe-based businesses are integrating environmental, social, and corporate governance reporting into their mainstream activities. File size: 161.4KB
January 2005	Navigating the Tsunami Relief Effort Preventing outbreaks of diseases across tsunami-hit Asia and Africa is a race against time. The following information is meant to assist donors interested in participating in the tsunami relief efforts. File size: 90.3KB
October 2004	Corporate Contributions - A Look at the Numbers Corporate giving among the largest U.S. corporations is on the rise according to The Conference Board’s annual survey. For additional information see Report 1355. File size: 113.6KB
June 2004	Defining The Values-Based Enterprise A renewed interested in the concept of a values-based enterprise has emerged. At the heart of the values based enterprise is the belief that companies need both “private” and “public” capital to survive and prosper. File size: 132.9KB
January 2004	Rebuilding Trust in Business . . .Corporate Social Responsibility in the 21st Century The challenges faced by corporations when deciding between commercial opportunity and being socially responsible is discussed by Unilever Chairman Niall FitzGerald. File size: 107.6KB
January 2004	Corporate Communications Trends... Ruling in Nike Case May Lead to Increased Corporate Self-Censorship The repercussions from the lawsuit against Nike concerning its international employment practices, may cause the loss of free speech protection for businesses and an increase in false advertisement suits. File size: 107.4KB
December 2003	Finding Direction . . .Taking Control of the Sustainability Agenda: Broadening the Role of Business For business to adopt an enhanced corporate responsibility strategy and expect to realize short-term business benefits in the face of long-term global needs is likely unrealistic. This report explains why it is still important to develop such a strategy. File size: 93.9KB
May 2003	Making a Case for Corporate Sustainability Reporting Key stakeholders are driving the move toward "triple bottom line" reporting, in which companies document the economic, environmental, and social dimensions of their businesses. File size: 127.1KB
April 2003	Traveling Green: Linking Executive Travel to Corporate, Community, and Environmental Values Executive travel provides the next opportunity for organizations to demonstrate to their employees, suppliers, customers, and communities that they "walk the talk" on corporate citizenship. File size: 120.7KB
March 2003	Travel in Uncertain Times This report provides background information, along with tools and tactics for traveling safely and economically during periods of conflict and military action—and the accompanying heightened risks. File size: 160.4KB
February 2003	Trends in Education: Creating the Scientific Equivalent of the MBA Professional science master's programs at dozens of universities are attempting to meet the demand within science and technology industries for more focused, more industry-responsive and shorter, timelier graduate educational opportunities. File size: 137.2KB
July 2002	Corporate Citizenship and Sustainability Arrive: Are Capital Markets Addressing New Business and Investment Risk Factors? Perhaps the only thing that is certain today in global capital markets is that traditional performance measures are not capturing important investment risk factors. File size: 78.7KB
March 2002	The World Summit on Sustainable Development: Why Business Should Care Explains why businesses need to care about the World Summit on Sustainable Development and what they can expect from it. File size: 55.5KB
February 2002	The Role of Business in Zones of Crisis Discusses what businesses can do in zones of conflict, the role of business in failing states, and how companies can contribute to a country's redevelopment. File size: 38.2KB
January 2002	CEOs on Citizenship Summarizes the results of surveys of managers, board members, and chief executives on corporate citizenship. File size: 65.5KB
January 2002	Business Conduct Codes: Why Corporations Hesitate A survey of companies looks at how sensitive the issue of code and guideline endorsement is for corporations and why. File size: 54.8KB
December 2001	Rebuilding Lower Manhattan: The Need for Cross-Sector Collaboration Characterizes the challenges rebuilding Lower Manhattan will pose to the private, government, and nonprofit sectors and the what the likely results will be. File size: 42.4KB

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