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Three Steps to Tackle Raw Materials Risks—from the Inside Out thumnail image
Supply Chain

Three Steps to Tackle Raw Materials Risks—from the Inside Out

Proactively understanding where your company has raw material and commodity risks puts it in a position to more efficiently meet stakeholder expectations, minimize risk, and maximize impact.

BSR’s Women in Factories China Program: Moving from Risk to Value in the Supply Chain thumnail image
Supply Chain

BSR’s Women in Factories China Program: Moving from Risk to Value in the Supply Chain

The Women in Factories program has given women workers in China the skills and knowledge they need to change their lives and how they work, creating value for factories and catalyzing change in manufacturing supply chains.

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Financial Services

Activist Investors and the Rise of Short-Termism 2.0

The rise of hedge fund activist investors is making it more challenging for companies to focus on long-term value creation.

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Supply Chain

The Digital, Sustainable Future of Supply Chains

With all the buzz about augmented reality, blockchain, and the Internet of Things, how can we elevate sustainability to a primary consideration in the digitalization of supply chains?

Impact Sourcing and Inclusive Supply Chains: A Conversation with Microsoft’s Tim Hopper thumnail image
Supply Chain | Equity, Inclusion, and Justice

Impact Sourcing and Inclusive Supply Chains: A Conversation with Microsoft’s Tim Hopper

We sat down with Microsoft's manager of responsible sourcing initiatives to discuss its recent focus on inclusion of people with disabilities in the supply chain and more.

What Are the 10 Most Urgent Human Rights Risks for Your Industry? thumnail image
Human Rights

What Are the 10 Most Urgent Human Rights Risks for Your Industry?

We're launching a series of primers that will help you identify and act on key human rights issues in your industry.

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Climate Change

Business Steps Up Leadership on Climate Action as U.S. Administration Withdraws

While consensus on climate action has long been elusive, companies from diverse sectors of the economy have stepped up and pledged to protect the standards of the Paris Agreement.

Three Actions to Promote Women’s Economic Empowerment in the Apparel Sector thumnail image
Supply Chain | Consumer Products

Three Actions to Promote Women’s Economic Empowerment in the Apparel Sector

Here's how apparel companies can take action to promote women workers' well-being and economic empowerment.

BSR Statement on U.S. Withdrawal from the Paris Agreement thumnail image
Climate Change

BSR Statement on U.S. Withdrawal from the Paris Agreement

BSR regrets that the United States has announced its intention to withdraw from the Paris Agreement on climate change.

Can Marketers Change the World? thumnail image
Sustainability Management

Can Marketers Change the World?

We have reached a tipping point for sustainability marketing.

Despite U.S. Uncertainty on Paris, Business Momentum for Climate Action Remains Strong thumnail image
Climate Change

Despite U.S. Uncertainty on Paris, Business Momentum for Climate Action Remains Strong

BSR urges the United States to remain in the Paris Agreement on climate change, and we are confident that the business community will continue to lead on climate action.

Registration Now Open for the BSR Conference 2017: How Business Leads thumnail image

Registration Now Open for the BSR Conference 2017: How Business Leads

Join us this October at a new venue—in Huntington Beach, California—to explore how business leads on critical sustainability issues in a time of extraordinary change.

How to Increase Your Company’s Renewables Portfolio thumnail image
Energy and Extractives | Climate Change

How to Increase Your Company’s Renewables Portfolio

Here’s how to assess your options for procuring renewable energy and how to collaborate to increase your portfolio more quickly.

How Ethiopia’s Nascent Apparel Industry Can Build a Strong, Empowered Workforce thumnail image
Supply Chain

How Ethiopia’s Nascent Apparel Industry Can Build a Strong, Empowered Workforce

To achieve sustainability over the long term, Ethiopia’s emerging apparel industry must embed good business practice from the beginning.

New BSR Report: Scaling Clean Energy through Financial Industry Collaboration thumnail image
Financial Services | Collaboration | Climate Change

New BSR Report: Scaling Clean Energy through Financial Industry Collaboration

The transition to a low-carbon economy is underway. How can the financial services industry collaborate to scale clean energy finance?