Starbucks Needs More Transparent Sustainability Reporting
Starbucks 2010 Year in Review tenth Corporate Responsibility update is now online and downloadable, complete with separate scorecard (PDF). 2 out of 12 goals achieved, 6 on track, 3 needing...
View ArticleSustainability Due Diligence… Over Coffee
One of the things I always wonder when I hear about acquisitions of smaller companies by larger companies is to what extent sustainability due diligence formed part of the acquisition deliberations and...
View ArticleThe Love/Hate Paradox of Clean Capitalism
Some companies are so controversial that opinions about them range from completely positive (we love them) to despairingly critical (we hate them). This is the paradox of clean capitalism. Love Tobacco...
View ArticleDo Children have to Choose Between Work or Poverty?
“I was involved in the implementation of our programs to address child labor issues in India. Some time ago, our team went out to India to monitor how things were happening in the field. Our host, the...
View ArticleWhat Happened to Honesty: False Claims in Sustainability Reports
During my visit last week to Vienna and my discussions with the fabulous leadership of the Vienna University of Economics and Business Institute for Human Resources Management, we spent some time...
View ArticleI’ll have some horsemeat while I wait in my cozy dog fur coat.
The Guardian reports that GBP300m was wiped off Tesco’s market value in the days following the news last week that frozen beefburgers, advertised as 100 percent beef, contained 29 percent horse DNA....
View ArticleSustainability Reporting: SME’s Find Benefits From Transparency
Sustainability Reporting is often regarded as the proprietary privilege of large global multinationals whose powerful and often dominating impacts on our lives and our planet cannot be overlooked....
View ArticleNovo Nordisk leads again: Has the annual sustainability report become obsolete?
Corporate transparency comes in many shapes and forms. I would be the last one to deny the relevance and essential nature of annual sustainability reporting, but I like the Novo Nordisk approach to...
View ArticleMateriality can make or break the usefulness of a sustainability report:...
Material issues are core for sustainability disclosure but how detailed does a materiality assessment need to be in order to be meaningful?
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