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The Innovation High Ground
How Leading Companies are Using Sustainability-Driven Innovation to Win Tomorrow’s Customers
This report examines how leading companies are using sustainability-driven innovation to win customers for the future. Arthur D. Little collaborated with Hedstrom Associates to survey 40 technology companies in Europe, the US and Japan to see how they are creating new market space, products, services or processes driven by social, environmental or sustainability issues.
Released: July 2005
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A Director's Guide to Corporate Responsibility Reporting
This guide was compiled by a team comprising Arthur D Little, Business in the Community, Camelot and HBOS.
The guide is designed to help directors and senior managers consider how best to develop an effective reporting strategy for corporate responsibility (CR). It helps directors and senior managers understand their current CR reporting strategy and the key issues they need to consider in order to deliver greater value to their business and those they are reporting to.
Released: July 2005
Business Case for Corporate Responsibility
Business Case for Corporate Responsibility
In 2003, Arthur D. Little collaborated with Business in the Community to produce a concise report on current thinking on the business case for corporate responsibility, arguing that specific corporate responsibility initiatives and programmes require specific business cases. This report provides some generic arguments to engage decision-makers in the value of corporate responsibility and has proved to be extremely useful for companies just starting to develop effective corporate responsibility strategy.
Released: December 2003
Download File Business_Case_for_Corporate_Responsibility_01.pdf (.PDF, 1.1 MB)
Speaking the same language
Improving Communications between Companies and Investors on Corporate Responsibility
Investors and companies are still not having a meaningful dialogue about the business value of corporate responsibility. But there is a strong desire to change this and to find agreement on the best way forward. This report was produced in 2003 in partnership with the UK Social Investment Forum and Business in the Community. It explores the relationships between the investment community and companies and provides a map of the SRI (Sustainable and Responsible Investment) community.
Released: June 2003
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Profits from poverty
The Ethics of Making Money from the Poor
Some 4 billion people - approximately two-thirds of the world's population - live on less than 00 a year. They outnumber the rich, or at least those earning ,000 or more, by a factor of eight to one. Though they are individually cash poor, as a group they constitute a significant target for business. Making profits from poverty may make good financial sense, but is it ethically acceptable? This document summarises discussions from one of Arthur D. Little's 'Naked Lunches' designed to strip sustainability issues down to their bare essentials. It illustrates that there is a need for businesses to sell to the poor and identifies how a number of companies target these communities using a variety of strategies for their own commercial benefit, but also to improve the quality of life of the poor.
Released: January 2003
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Corporate Responsibility in the Food Industry
Too hard to swallow?
Food is a global industry, led by multinational corporations. Brand-labelled, processed foods dominate the market and the majority of profits are made from value-added industrial-scale production and distribution, rather than primary crop-growing and animal husbandry. Within this context, Arthur D. Little held a 'Naked Lunch' to examine the role of the food company, and in particular where their corporate responsibilities should begin and end.
Released: August 2002
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