Here are 10 CSR reports that impressed our writers in industries ranging from automotive to fashion to technology to sports apparel to cosmetics.

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There are plenty of signs that you have a lousy CSR report. Bloggers (including us!) might tell you, and if they don’t, you can take any radio silence that comes after your report launch as a sign that it was not as groundbreaking as it could have been.
But how do you know when you’ve got a successful report?

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Earlier this month Prof. Robert Eccles of Harvard Business School was interviewed on MIT Sloan Management Review about the latest developments in integrated reporting. This interview provides a clear view of both the opportunities and the challenges of integrated reporting. It’s interesting to see how what Eccles describes as what is considered by most people as “the most boring thing you can possibly talk about” can be such an important driver in the sustainable business space. Here are five reasons why, including the challenges that each one presents.

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With more causes, more donors, and more philanthropic platforms than ever, who is overseeing the $300B philanthropy market and how are investors and donors kept informed?

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By: David Jaber Many CSR professionals struggle with setting benchmarks, measuring progress toward goals and evaluating past performance. But it doesn’t have to be difficult. Here are some tips to get you started: Good metrics should be: – relevant. If your goal is to ‘improve public understanding of environmental justice,’ the metric needs to be [...]

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Environmental Leader recently held a webinar, The Business Case for Sustainability Disclosure with speakers from the Carbon Development Project’s (CDP) development manager Patrick Crawford and the Global Reporting Initiative‘s (GRI) technical development manager Bastian Buck. Crawford outlined CDP Reporter Services which include a number of components that will help companies move beyond simply reporting their carbon footprint [...]

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Puma is the first company in the world to put a value on the ecosystem services it uses to produce its sports shoes and clothes. In a huge leap for CSR, the company has published an economic valuation of the environmental impacts caused by greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) and water consumption along its entire supply chain. It [...]

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by Jonathan Wootliff, Head of Corporate Accountability, Reputation Partners As more businesses publish sustainability reports, I worry that the practice has become little more than a box-ticking exercise to some companies. The reports come in all shapes and sizes, with a few quality offerings scattered among many that I would argue aren’t worth the paper [...]

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