The Sustainability Learning Forum

A Journey of Passion and Innovation Toward Stakeholder Happiness

SK Telecom

Like most other countries across the globe, Korea has many issues to tackle regarding the widening gap between education and wealth levels. To narrow the gap, SK has enacted a wide range of social activities as well as made efforts to drive economic growth as a responsible corporate citizen. But in the process of undertaking such activities, SK soon realized that simple acts of charity are not enough to find an efficient solution to the deep-rooted malaise in society, and that a social enterprise can be a mechanism to address pressing issues and create sustainable values. As the first step toward utilizing such a valuable tool, SK raised KRW 50 billion in 2009 to support social enterprises on a large scale. more[...] login_required

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Maclean, Camilla

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Corporate Community Involvement: The Definitive Guide To Maximizing Your Business' Societal Engagement

Nick Lakin, Molson Coors Brewing Company

Corporate Community Involvement offers the first-ever roadmap to strategic community involvement. Building on their extensive experience, Nick Lakin and Veronica Scheubel have designed this book to be practical—for those who want to act upon what they read. more[...] login_required

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Making the Pitch: Selling Sustainability from Inside Corporate America

To be successful, corporate sustainability leaders avoid the jargon of sustainability when selling it inside their companies. Rather, the path to success is developed by understanding business objectives and using broad interpersonal skills to communicate social and environmental issues in the language business leaders will understand, according to a new report that surveyed more than 30 sustainability leaders representing both publicly and privately held companies. more[...] login_required

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Financial Services Professionals Feel Unethical Behavior May Be A Necessary Evil

Labaton Sucharow LLP announced the results of its survey of 500 financial services professionals across the United States and United Kingdom. Conducted by Populus in June, Wall Street, Fleet Street and Main Street: Corporate Integrity at a Crossroads reveals startling data on corporate ethics, the regulatory landscape, and individuals' willingness to blow the whistle on wrongdoing. more[...] login_required

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Maon, François

François Maon is Professor of Management at the Louvain School of Management in Belgium. more[...] login_required

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Vanhamme, Joëlle

Joëlle Vanhamme is Professor of Marketing at the Edhec Business School in France. more[...] login_required

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Kotler, Philip

Philip Kotler is Professor of Marketing at the Kellogg University Graduate School of Management in Chicago, USA. more[...] login_required

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A Stakeholder Approach to Corporate Social Responsibility

Prof. Adam Lindgreen, University of Cardiff

A Stakeholder Approach to Corporate Social Responsibility provides a comprehensive collection of cutting-edge theories and research that can lead to a more multifaceted understanding of corporate social responsibility in its various forms, the pressures and conflicts that result from these different understandings, and some potential solutions for reconciling them. more[...] login_required

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When and How to Control the Influence of Family-Owned Business Groups?

Top corporate governance experts discuss latest research in emerging markets. Yishay Yafeh is an associate professor at Hebrew University’s School of Business Administration. more[...] login_required

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TeliaSonera partners with the Danish Institute for Human Rights (DIHR)

Telia Sonera

TeliaSonera has engaged the Danish Institute for Human Rights to support and review its human rights impact assessment. DIHR will develop a tool tailored to TeliaSonera and its human rights risk profile. It will include freedom of expression and privacy issues and be benchmarked on the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. DIHR will also assess TeliaSonera’s consequential mitigation plan. more[...] login_required

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Make Rio+20 Count

The UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) provides an exceptional opportunity for swift policy action to accelerate and scale business solutions so 9 billion people can live well and within the limits of one planet by 2050. The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) today pressed governments to overcome their differences and to take decisive action now. more[...] login_required

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New ISO 20121 standard for sustainable events management

Roger Frost, International Organization for Standardization

Event sustainability management systems – Requirements with guidance for use, is suitable for ensuring that events, ranging from local celebrations to "mega events" such as the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games, leave behind a positive legacy. The standard is relevant to all members of the event industry supply chain including organizers, event managers, stand builders, caterers and logistics suppliers. more[...] login_required

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Corruption: Shining a light on the world’s biggest companies

The world’s 105 biggest companies are worth more than US$11 trillion. They touch the lives of people across the globe. But just how much do we know about their impact on daily lives? Too often, citizens experience little benefit from global economic activity while suffering the consequences of unethical corporate activity. Transparency in Corporate Reporting assesses the disclosure of steps these companies have in place to fight corruption. It also looks at companies’ transparency footprint across 177 countries: to what extent are earnings and taxes in specific countries made public. more[...]

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Building an Inclusive Green Economy for All

Poverty-Environment Partnership (PEP)

This joint Poverty-Environment Partnership paper aims to stimulate a dialogue among developing country policymakers, development partners and other stakeholders on how best to support country-led efforts to build inclusive green economies. more[...] login_required

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