Research shows how your firm's comprehensive environmental risk management strategy can reduce cost of capital and increase opportunity for debt financing.
Community stakeholders have substantial control over corporate resources and decisions companies make about the environment. Three groups often drive...
NBS outlines a framework and best practices for supply chain management based on 25 years worth of academic and industry resources.
Designed for executives and senior supply chain, purchasing and sustainability managers, NBS presents a 3-step framework for sustainable supply chains.
When uncertainty exists, the tendency is to do nothing. Avoid the paralysis of inaction that will leave your firm unprepared for extreme climate events.
Data quality needs to improve. But carbon disclosure and reporting continues to attract attention from the public, media, government, and business alike.
93% of CEOs see sustainability as key to business success. Here, NBS presents a comprehensive framework to embed sustainability into organizational culture.
NBS presents a framework of best practices and tools to help managers embed sustainability into corporate culture and incite meaningful change.
Research finds good stakeholder relations are a key factor in sustaining above-average financial performance.
This study examines the chemical industry's Responsible Care Program and evaluates whether it improved member firms' environmental performance relative to...
Businesses can gain three main advantages by investing in developing world markets: 1) a new source of revenues, 2) lower operating costs, and 3) access to innovation.
How can sustainability knowledge be diffused among colleagues and employees? A number of factors facilitate organizational learning, and the results of the...
To limit their conflicts with local communities, managers of multinational corporations (MNCs) must consider three interrelated factors: power inequality,...
This paper examines how attitudes towards learning in the context of inter-organizational collaboration affect how partners interact. The findings suggest...
Discover six mechanisms by which corporate social responsibility drives a firm's financial performance.
Multinational corporations are standardizing their environmental policies worldwide based on pressures from government, industry and consumers. Managers can...
This study shows that a firm's improved environmental performance reduces the firm's cost of capital. The researchers found that investors perceive a firm's...
These four indicators will help your business measure greenhouse gases across the value chain.
Manufacturing plants can improve their performance and help the environment by investing in environmental technologies. However, if given the choice between...
Managers may feel lost at sea with the many sustainability metrics and tools. Discover five that work in NBS's Executive Report on Valuing Sustainability.
This research examines the pressures that shaped the U.S. chemical industry's environmental beliefs and practices from the 1960s to the 1990s. Environmental...
This study investigates the processes underlying how business and nonprofit partnerships form. The authors identify the challenges faced by managers at each...
This paper highlights how managers form effective partnerships between business, government and non-profits to address social issues. Successful partnerships...
Researchers contrast corporate responses to climate change in the UK and Pakistan. How does your firm's response compare?
Climate change is a business issue. Here are four reasons why adapting to a changing climate should be on every executive's radar.