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The slides from the May 19th Materiality Research Webinar are now available to view. We invite you to contact Kathee Rebernak or Aleksandra Dobkowski-Joy for further discussion of the research findings.
If you’re a member of Net Impact—you’re in luck!
This Friday, April 23, 2010, join Framework:CR Principal Aleksandra Dobkowski-Joy as she presents a Net Impact Issues in Depth call focused on materiality analysis:
Here’s the synopsis:
A thorough materiality analysis offers a unique opportunity to inform overall sustainability strategy and communications through consideration of diverse stakeholder perspectives and the drivers and potential inhibitors of a company’s growth and success. With this call, we’ll explore a basic materiality process and look at how companies such as Intel, Ford, and Holcim have benefited from their customized application of this analytic tool.
Hope you can join us!
To sum up the most recent meeting of the United Nations Global Compact US Network, held October 19 at PricewaterhouseCoopers offices in San Francisco (I know, this post is terribly late):
Boards need to step up and listen up.
In his opening remarks, Allen White sounded the call that became the theme, reinforced and restated during each panel and discussion that followed. Companies need activist boards, he said, and he presented the following ideas for how companies can begin to cultivate boards that to meet the calls for better governance and attention to some of our most pressing issues:
1. Create a process by which boards reflect on stakeholder management, engagement, and governance.
2. Require all board members to build competency in sustainable governance.
3. Consider sustainability competency as a criterion for selecting new board members.
4. Require directors to hold management accountable for integration of sustainability.
5. Boards should set sustainability goals.
Carolyn Y. Woo, Dean… More
