By Talib Visram More and more companies are adding chief sustainability officers to their ranks but, despite the standardized title, the job functions can vary dramatically. The basic function of a CSO is to help businesses achieve their social and environmental goals. But in some organizations, despite the executive-sounding titles, they’re still fringe positions; … Continue reading 5 ways leaders can get the most out of their chief sustainability officers
By Adele Peters As a growing number of people decide to switch careers to work on climate change, we’re running a series of interviews with people in climate-related jobs about their day-to-day work, from Microsoft’s Melanie Nakagawa and Google’s Kate Brandt to carbon removal-startup founder Mary Yap and climate tech investor Mia Diawara. Ikea wants to be a … Continue reading A day in the life of a chief sustainability officer: Q&A with Ikea’s Karen Pflug
How A Next-Gen Intelligent Marketplace Uses AI To Increase Media-Buying Efficiency, Sustainability by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, May 26, 2023 LoopMe, an ad-tech company that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to improve brand advertising performance, has launched an Intelligent Marketplace that it says creates a smarter programmatic ecosystem for buyers and sellers. It also maintains high-bid matches … Continue reading How A Next-Gen Intelligent Marketplace Uses AI To Increase Media-Buying Efficiency, Sustainability
Why You Can’t Have Digital Transformation Without Sustainability Tiago Ramalho / 22 Aug 2022 With much of the world now focused on the goal of net zero carbon emissions by the year 2050, industry leaders are asking: How can businesses be more sustainable? Sustainability has gone from being a nice to have to a … Continue reading Why You Can’t Have Digital Transformation Without Sustainability
Eliza Erskine — May 19, 2020 2020 was your sustainability year! You eventually got all teams on board, created great employee momentum in February, and by mid-March, all employees were working from home and you’re scrambling to keep employee culture, keep employees safe and figure out this brave new COVID world. Sound familiar? Luckily, your … Continue reading How to Focus on Sustainability With a Remote Workforce
Eliza Erskine — February 5, 2020 Make 2020 the year you take action toward a sustainability strategy of your own. Amazon and Google employees made headlines writing letters to management demanding climate change action. Even if you don’t work for or run a large company, your employees are asking about sustainability. Or you’re thinking about … Continue reading How to Make Sustainability a Company Focus in 2020
Ryan Ayers — November 6, 2019 Follow @TheBizTechGuru Business leaders can boost brand image and serve the public good by practicing corporate social responsibility. In recent years, public advocates have demanded more than lip service when it comes to protecting the interests of humanity. Resultantly, a growing number of executives recognize the importance of corporate … Continue reading Sustainability is the New Green: Why Every Forward-Thinking Company Needs a Sustainability Program
Kristen Carlson — March 12, 2017 Follow @Kcarlson14— March 12, 2017 More and more organizations and industries are using Big Data to make smart, data-driven decisions. Sustainability is no exception, but how much are you measuring when it comes to your employee sustainability programs? If you’re just transforming your employee sustainability program to be more … Continue reading The 5 Cardinal Rules of a Data-Driven Employee Sustainability Program
Joe Jones — November 29, 2016 Follow @sustainit— November 29, 2016 The importance of environmental policies and sustainable practices in business has seen the emergence of a role that is still misunderstood and ill-defined in the corporate world; that of the Chief Sustainability Officer. The emergence and growing prevalence of this C-level position amongst big … Continue reading The 4 Pillars of Effective Corporate Sustainability Policy
Dr. Mark CamilleriJuly 1, 2015 Businesses are capable of implementing responsible behaviours as they pursue their profit-making activities. A thorough literature review suggests that many academic articles have dedicated their energies on organising and evaluating the evidence to establish a link, usually through regression analysis between corporate social responsibility (CSR) or corporate social performance (CSP) … Continue reading CSR2.0 – The Corporate Sustainability & Responsibility Agenda
