PRODUCT, SERVICE & DESIGN INNOVATION -
The ongoing pandemic has changed fundamental patterns in our lives, accelerating existing trends and revealing new unmet needs. Since the onset of COVID,
Steelcase has conducted ongoing research to help organizations understand its impact on their people and business.
WALKING THE TALK -
Among the retailer’s goals are to achieve 20% Black team member representation across the company by 2023; and reach net zero in both waste to landfill and
value-chain-wide emissions, and 100% owned-brand product circularity, by 2040.
ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE -
How can an organization enact profound ESG governance in a sector of the economy that might not be facing external pressures to operate more sustainably? The Cox family of companies accepted this challenge before sustainability was even in the zeitgeist.
WALKING THE TALK -
The nation’s largest online racial justice organization has outlined new demands of corporations that made racial justice statements to urge them to move
#BeyondTheStatement.
ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE -
It’s brilliant news that sustainability and ESG professionals look set to become as critical to any business as operations, sales and marketing; but for brands that rely on a steady stream of candidates in these roles, it will require a rethink of hiring strategies.
LEADERSHIP -
The good news: According to a new report from the Weinreb Group, hiring of Chief Sustainability Officers surged in 2020 in the US, and women now account for 54% of CSO positions. The not-so-good news: The field remains overwhelmingly white.
ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE -
At Sustainable Brands’ latest Just Brands event, experts from across the spectrum of business discussed corporate efforts to support diversity, equity, inclusion and justice (DEIJ) issues — and how stakeholders will no longer tolerate a gap between commitments and actions.
ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE -
We caught up with Reimagine Gender CEO Lisa Kenney, to discuss why it's critical for businesses to embrace a broader understanding of gender as part of their inclusivity efforts.
ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE -
More companies are outlining policies and setting targets for DEIJ, but meeting those commitments remains a challenge. At Just Brands ‘21 (May 6-7), major companies share keys to implementation of authentic strategies, to realize the moral and business imperative of becoming a truly inclusive brand.
CLEANTECH -
In one of the most challenging sectors to decarbonize, Alaska has set forth its plan to greatly reduce its carbon, waste and water impacts by 2025; and eliminate its carbon emissions altogether by 2040.
THE NEXT ECONOMY -
As we emerge from COVID-19 and mental health rises up the corporate agenda, how
can businesses incorporate the subject into their core sustainability agenda, rather than treat it as a separate issue?
ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE -
As part of Chipotle’s mission to ‘cultivate a better world,’ it has expanded its debt-free degree program to include nearly 100 degree options in these fields at 10 US universities.
THE NEXT ECONOMY -
The companies have launched a variety of new tools and services aimed at fostering a more inclusive tech workforce in the US, with a specific focus on women and underrepresented minorities.
PRODUCT, SERVICE & DESIGN INNOVATION -
We have set bold sustainability goals and worked to understand the gaps we need to fill and the impacts we can make based on our business and
expertise. We’re guided on this path by our Design for Environment program, which takes into account the full life-cycle of our products.
WALKING THE TALK -
In the past week, both Nike and Chipotle announced new sets of environmental and
social goals — and systems with which their executives’ compensation will be
tied to achieving them.
ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE -
The 10th annual study reveals that HR departments apparently underestimated
employee concerns about racial equity and social unrest. Was the pandemic, or lack of company buy-in, to blame?
THE NEXT ECONOMY -
At SB’s latest Trend Watching event, experts across a variety of fields and industries offered insights into how purpose-driven brands can effectively activate on everything from marketing to effective leadership to climate justice in our post-pandemic world.
WALKING THE TALK -
The next frontier of sustainability is regeneration
— building brands that actively restore and renew a system. And that’s as true for our systems that continue to allow racial injustice as for our environmental ecosystems.