Search Results

Showing 21 - 30 of 33 results for "corporate strategy"

Materiality analysis helps define sustainability issues: GRI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAY 2016  |  NEWS
... requiring a greater understanding of how companies connect their sustainability priorities to their long-term corporate strategy."

Can sustainability considerations drive corporate innovation?

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JAN 2016  |  NEWS
... sustainability means in a corporate environment will see organisations continue to embed sustainability with corporate strategy in Australia. Sustainability experts tell The Sustainability Report that environmental and human rights concerns will feature ...

Labour rights, NGO activism and governance cited as ESG trends

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
... and in Australia has been "values based", but noted that many of the values issues are embedded in long term corporate strategy and questioned if it was more valuable for activist shareholders to press for short-term, reactive action or engagement to ...

Social Ventures Australia hires Jenna Palumbo for WA role

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 FEB 2014  |  NEWS
... Australia," Palumbo said.' Jenna's expertise includes social impact bonds, policy advocacy, financial modelling and corporate strategy. Alongside Big Society Capital, she has held positions with Social Finance, Azure Capital and KPMG Corporate Finance ...

Looking for social, economic return by creating shared value

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
... it and who was very high within the business." One of the more challenging aspects of integrating CSV into a corporate strategy is the fact that there are disparate systems for measuring impact, and CSV requires its own level of KPIs to capture progress ...

Corporates should look beyond CSR to creating shared value

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
... of a risk for them. Healthy communities are what is good for Rio Tinto," he said. In turn, working with the corporate strategy side of an organisation can provide value to a social program in ways that working with a corporation's foundation would not. ...

Australian boards struggling with climate change adaptation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... engaged with senior executive from over 100 corporations to discuss climate change impacts, adaptation and corporate strategy. The report found that while climate change science predicts a future in which there are more extreme weather events and brought ...

Australia/NZ companies lag in Corporate Responsibility Index

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... corporate responsibility performance globally and within sectors. The CR Index scores companies against areas of corporate strategy, community management, environmental management, marketplace management, workplace management, environmental impact and ...

ACSI to target exec bonus disclosure, voting rights at AGMs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... context to understand why bonuses have been awarded, how they link to shareholder returns and to the delivery of corporate strategy. "Over recent weeks, we have witnessed the spectacle of numerous CEOs foregoing their annual bonuses this year," said ...

SAP: sustainability for innovation as well as cost reduction

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
SAP, the business management software provider, has integrated sustainability metrics into its corporate strategy for both internal cost reductions and as a source of corporate innovation, using a stakeholder body of executives and customers to gather ...