In June 2018, we stood on the main stage at Sustainable Brands 2018 in Vancouver to give the first presentation of our book All In: The Future of Business Leadership, which had launched that same morning. We like to think we gave an enthusiastic summary of the book that we had been working on for the previous 15 months (you can decide for yourself here). While writing took 15 months, it was a book 20 years in the making, as … “All In: Two Years On”
With the spread of COVID-19 creating a crisis that is unprecedented in living memory, there is not an element of our lives that has remained unaffected. And this is especially true for business. At GlobeScan and BSR, we spend our time working with some of the largest businesses in the world and we wanted to understand both the immediate effect on the sustainability efforts of the companies we work with and also to begin to understand what long-term implications they … “Today and Tomorrow: COVID-19 and the Increased Relevance of Corporate Sustainability | Report”
On May 27, in partnership with Huawei, we hosted an informative webinar discussion about how progress on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will be impacted in this post COVID-19 reality and the role of technology. During the outbreak of COVID-19, there have been many conversations, webinars, and convenings on how the world is changing and how we are adapting. In this webinar, we looked more long-term – how business and society can respond to the emerging new reality, using the … “Webinar Recap | Sustainability and Resilience: The World Post COVID-19 and the Role of Technology”
GlobeScan is continuing to give back to the environment by planting trees through its partnership with one of the largest tree planting organizations in North America, One Tree Planted. During 2019, 4 million trees were planted worldwide – more than 1.8 million in North America, 1.2 million in Africa, 465,000 in Asia, and 423,000 in Latin America. Trees help clean the air we breathe, filter the water we drink, and provide habitat to over 80% of the world’s terrestrial biodiversity. … “Planting with Purpose to Create a Forest Built on Stakeholder Research”
In the wake of COVID-19, many aspects of our daily lives may be forever altered. Emerging from this period in which our normal activities have experienced such a dramatic change with a ‘fresh start’ attitude could allow us to refocus our efforts on healthy and sustainable living. But to do so, we will require a shift in our collective mentality that recognizes the opportunities present in this tumultuous time and applies the lessons learned to less tangible, more long-term threats. … “Looking Ahead to GlobeScan’s 2020 Healthy and Sustainable Living Research Program”
Earlier this month, GlobeScan hosted a special webinar and online collaboration forum on Purposeful Leadership in a Time of Crisis where we looked across the world at how business is responding to the COVID-19 crisis and what more business could do to demonstrate even more purposeful leadership. GlobeScan’s Global Landscape Review of over 200 corporate responses to COVID-19 provides insights on how businesses have moved rapidly from the initial stages of business adaptation and philanthropy to creating shared value and … “Purposeful Leadership in a Time of Crisis”
April 22, 2020: GlobeScan is joining forces with CVS Health, IKEA, PepsiCo, Visa, Walmart, and WWF International among others to conduct its Healthy & Sustainable Living study to better understand how companies can inspire and enable healthy and sustainable living. Building on the 2019 launch of this ten-year insights program, the consumer research across 25 countries will help identify opportunities to close the wide gap between peoples’ desire to live more sustainably and to what extent brands are helping them … “Purpose-Driven Brands Partner to Identify Opportunities for Healthy, Sustainable Living with 25-Country Consumer Study”
Since their first hotel was established in 1957, the Hyatt Hotels Corporation has continued to grow. In 2020, Hyatt has over 100,000 employees worldwide servicing nearly 900 properties across 20 brands in 60 countries. As part of their corporate responsibility, Hyatt drives change across their value chain to help protect the environment, human rights and animal welfare, and to support inclusion and diversity. The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) has awarded the company a rating of 100 percent in the HRC … “Recognizing Leaders: Lucas Glanville, Hyatt Hotels”
7 April, Hong Kong – This World Health Day, as the world grapples with the worst public health emergency in recent memory, over 90 per cent of respondents surveyed in Southeast Asia and Hong Kong support a government-led closure of illegal and unregulated wildlife markets, according to new research for WWF. The recent outbreak of COVID-19 has brought the link between zoonotic diseases – those transmitted from animals to humans – and wildlife markets into sharp focus. An online survey … “Public Calls for Governments to Close S.E. Asia’s Wildlife Markets in Response to COVID-19”
Best Practices on Business Responses to COVID-19 On 2 April 2020, GlobeScan hosted a special webinar and online collaboration forum on ‘Purposeful Leadership in a Time of Crisis’ during which we shared timely research on best practice across the world of business responding to the COVID-19 crisis, and explored what more businesses could be doing to demonstrate even more purposeful leadership. Webinar and Landscape Review GlobeScan captured and categorized hundreds of examples of actions by business across the world in … “Purposeful Leadership in a Time of Crisis | Research, Webinar, and Online Forum”