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Niall Fitzgerald

Niall Fitzgerald
Former Chairman & CEO of Unilever and Chairman of Reuters

"The role of business in society is on the Boardroom agenda. Either the CEO and the Board manage the role their business plays or others will manage it for them. At stake is corporate reputation, innovation, competitiveness and growth,; how economics trends affect your business."

Ron Brown Award

 

Corporate Citizenship & Sustainability

Citizenship and sustainability - sometimes referred to as corporate social responsibility - are new business realities. In today's marketplace, companies wishing to improve their long-term competitiveness, profitability, and market valuation must be effective in integrating citizenship and sustainability into core business strategy. Markets, customers, regulators, Boards, and society-at-large are demanding it.

At the same time, new business opportunities are being created by accelerating demand for sustainable products and services. The question executives are now grappling with is not whether, but how, to convert citizenship and sustainability from a nice way of doing business into a source of real business value.

The Conference Board offers a wide range of opportunities for our members to increase their knowledge, grow their competencies, and improve their practices in this important and challenging new business area. We invite you to join us.

 

 Center for Corporate Citizenship & Sustainability
Join the leading executives in their pursuit of innovation as they improve their organizations and the communities they work in. Click here to join.

 

The following is a listing of all our Citizenship & Sustainability products and services including those from our Center for Corporate Citizenship & Sustainability. Center specific products and services are only available to Center members. For more information about our Corporate Citizenship & Sustainability center and to join click here.

 

 Events/Forums

Conferences

Business and Education Conference

 

Leadership Conference on Global Corporate Citizenship

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Councils

Asia-Pacific Corporate Citizenship and Sustainability Council
This council is designed for senior executives in charge of corporate social responsibility, citizenship and sustainability programs in the Asia-Pacific region.

 

Contributions Council
Provides leadership to advance the practice of coporate philanthropy, and to underscore its importance to corporations and society.

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Research Working Group

Corporate Governance and Sustainability: Integrating Corporate and Investor Perspectives
The focus is to better understand and recommend to companies a framework for institutionalizing and mainstreaming their approaches both to designing sustainability programs and to communicating with institutional investors on the nature of these programs.

 

Corporate Governance and Sustainability: Integrating Corporate and Investor Perspectives
The focus is to better understand and recommend to companies a framework for institutionalizing and mainstreaming their approaches both to designing sustainability programs and to communicating with institutional investors on the nature of these programs.

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 Publications

Executive Action Reports

Huddled Masses? Why Helping Immigrants Helps Companies
Immigration is a hot-button issue. When it comes to corporate philanthropy, the target should be immigrant integration. The payoff to both business and society can be handsome.

Bridging the Logistical Divide: Integration of Poor Countries in Global Supply Chains
This report analyzes the reasons behind the lagging development of the world's poorest countries and offers some solutions for conquering the divide to help those nations achieve sustainable growth.

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Research Reports

Corporate Responses to Humanitarian Disasters: The Mutual Benefits of Private-Humanitarian Cooperation
This report provides a detailed overview of the new model of corporate-humanitarian cooperation.

The 2007 Corporate Contributions Report
This report is an annual overview of corporate giving based on information supplied by the largest U.S. corporations.

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