Guest Blog by Matt Ellis, Founder and CEO, Measurabl

We all know the jargon: Sustainability. CSR. Shared value. Triple bottom line. Green. They all land somewhere between ephemeral concepts and a color. How did we manage to detach something so important from its twin value propositions of risk mitigation and cost reduction? More puzzling still is how the value of sustainability got so turned around at a time when regulation, investor pressure and consumer demand for accountability and transparency are more real and impactful than ever.

The answer is we’ve been misled into thinking sustainability – the idea...

Guest Blog by Joe Keefe, President and CEO of Pax World Management LLC and Pax World Funds

The federal government in Washington, DC is at an all-time low in public esteem. This has to do with a lot of things, from intransigent right-wing ideology (e.g., debt ceiling debacle) to bureaucratic incompetence (e.g., Affordable Care Act website), to partisan gamesmanship (e.g., gerrymandered congressional districts), to outright, willful ignorance (e.g., climate change deniers), to a campaign finance system that produces policy makers held captive to the very special interests they are...

Guest Blog by Cheryl Heller

Partner, CommonWise,Chair; MFA Design for Social Innovation, SVA

The traditional purview of design in business is the making of objects and other artifacts. The traditional view of designers is as talented but narrow experts who are guided by their own personal vision when determining (dictating when they can) what the world, or the company, needs next.

Now there’s a new design emerging that works from inside a community and at a systems level, impacting human relationships instead of things. It emerges from the new...

Guest Blog by Solitaire Townsend, Cofounder, Futerra

Earlier this year at the GRI Conference, BSR President and CEO Aron Cramer and I launched a debate looking at the emerging world of social media in CSR reporting. Since then, in preparing for our BSR Conference session on the subject held in November, we met global brands and dug around online, and we’ve noticed that when it comes to social media, not all sustainability reports are created equally. In fact, they come in three species: the Pigeon, the Peacock, and the rare...