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Metrics
Metrics for Sustainability
The New Metrics of Sustainable Business Success
Burgess COMMENTARY
Peter Burgess
The New Metrics of Sustainable Business Success
As the way we define value as a society continues to evolve, the demand for business to create and measure new forms of value and to tie these to the bottom line becomes paramount. Sustainable Brands Issue in Focus #NewMetrics Issue in Focus' starts by taking a step back to ask ourselves 'what IS the point of business and economics anyway?' and moves from there to open a conversation with some of sustainability's top strategists to examine leading-edge work that is expanding the way business creates, quantifies, manages and communicates the value it delivers through the metrics it adopts.
Key topics explored included:
- How society is beginning to redefine value in the 21st century and what this means for business
- Breakthrough research and models for measuring the ROI of sustainability efforts
- Standardizing sustainability context
- Incentivizing and maximizing employee engagement and well-being and quantifying the value of same
- Tying environmental and social initiatives to enhanced shareholder value
- The valuation of ecosystem services
- The growing role of materiality in how companies are, or should be, measuring and reporting impact, and more!
R. Paul Herman* created the HIP (Human Impact + Profit) methodology for entrepreneurs, companies and investors worldwide to realize how quantifiable sustainability can drive financial performance. Herman advises investors, designs HIP portfolios, and manages the HIP 100 Index -- all… [Read more about R. Paul Herman]
Nick Gower's experience has centered around socially and environmentally focused investment management, analysis, and outreach. At HIP investor Nick manages corporate and private venture evaluations and related consulting, client development and market research, and industry-wide awareness-building. Prior to HIP, Nick consulted… [Read more about Nick Gower]
Bill Baue is a corporate sustainability architect, designing systemic transformation and company-level solutions. He works with organizations across the sustainability ecosystem, including AccountAbility, Audubon, Cabot Creamery Cooperative, Ceres, GE, Global Reporting Initiative, [Read more about Bill Baue]