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10 In Responsibility
Big or small, traditional or innovative, consolidated or nascent, businesses of all shapes and sizes and from across all industries are at the forefront of a new industrial revolution; and this time, it's sustainable. Sustainability is topping the agendas of more and more CEOs. For the first time it is...
Tags: Financial accounting, sustainability, finance, industry
Case studies 2008-02-05
Primary Surplus Behavior and Risks to Fiscal Sustainability in Emerging Market Countries: A "Fan-Chart" Approach
This paper proposes a probabilistic approach to public Debt Sustainability Analysis DSA using "Fan charts." These depict the magnitude of risks - upside and downside - surrounding public debt projections as a result of uncertain economic conditions and policies. The paper proposes a simulation algorithm for the path of public...
Tags: Financial services, IMF, sustainability, interest rate, emerging market
White papers 2006-03-01
Uncovering Hidden Opportunities in Your Supply Chain
How leading companies are embarking on strategic sustainability partnerships with suppliers and customers. Traditionally CR, environment and sustainability departments have been seen as a business cost. But a few leading companies are creating value by entering into strategic partnerships with suppliers. This paper explains why strategic supply chain partnerships make...
Tags: Business structures, Supply chain management (SCM), sustainability, partnership, supply chain, supplier, environment
White papers 2006-02-01
Moving From 'Project to Process' to Add Value to SOX Compliance While Improving Sustainability
Making things up as one go along is rarely a good way to do business. However, that is how most companies were forced to approach their first year of compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 SOX, particularly Section 404. Lack of planning, understaffing and overwork were the result. The...
Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory compliance, Regulations, Protiviti, Section 404, sustainability, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, SOX compliance, internal control, financial reporting, compliance, financial
White papers 2005-09-28
Business And Sustainability
Sustainable development involves activities that look beyond current market conditions and that define strategic options to manage future risk, which do not lend themselves to existing business evaluation tools. Despite these obstacles, a growing body of evidence suggests that improved business performance in ethical, environmental and social dimensions is justified...
Tags: Simon Fraser University, sustainable development, sustainability, risk management, financial, tool
White papers 2005-05-01
Capacity Building and Sustainability Knowledge in the Climate Change Regime
Increasingly, there is evidence that developing countries are unable to meet their commitments under a number of international environmental treaties. This paper first examines the relationship between climate change and sustainable development in science and within the context of the climate change agreements. It then examines the problem of developing...
Tags: Free trade, developing country, sustainable development, sustainability, agreement
White papers 2004-09-27
International Institutions, Sustainability Knowledge and Policy Change: The North American Experience
The study presented in this paper analyses how well and how the science-centered CEC environmental regime has worked for its member countries, and above all for developing country member Mexico, as the first decade anniversary of the CEC's operation approaches. To do so, it traces the impact of four mechanisms...
Tags: Sustainability, Developing Country, Free Trade, Finance
White papers 2004-09-27
A Risk Management Approach To Emerging Market's Sovereign Debt Sustainability
This paper studies the question of debt sustainability from a risk management perspective. The debt accumulation equation for any country involves variables that are stochastic and closely intertwined. When these aspects are taken into consideration the notion of debt sustainability is expanded to studying the stochastic properties of the debt...
Tags: Financial Planning, Financial services, National Bureau of Economic Research, risk management, sustainability, emerging market
White papers 2004-03-01
Developing a Financing Strategy
The toolkit will help to develop a process for ensuring the financial sustainability of the organisation. The authors believe that thinking through a financing strategy for the organisation in a systematic way, and writing that strategy up as a basic reference document for the organisation, will help towards gaining financial...
Tags: Financial accounting, Investment, financing, sustainability, financial, strategy
White papers 2003-09-30
Debt Sustainability, Brazil, and the IMF
Those who have watched financial crises in emerging economies over the past two years would have noticed two things. First, there has been a high concentration of financial crises in Latin America. Second, debt problems have been at the heart of several recent crises, including the prominent ones in Argentina,...
Tags: Brazil, sustainability, financial
White papers 2003-02-01
Sustainable Development : A Business Perspective
From the executive summary: ‘Confronted with the substantial development challenge, the business community is recognizing that long-term success depends not only on financial performance, but also on social and environmental performance. Recent years have seen world’s major corporations giving prime emphasis on ‘sustainability’ as a business imperative’. Economic Value Added...
Tags: Economic value-added analysis, Battelle Memorial Institute, Economic Value Added, sustainability, sustainable development, financial, performance
White papers 2003-01-01
Sector Sustainability: Best Practice Strategy Toolkit
Environmental and social issues are having an increasing impact on business performance. Effective management of these issues - alongside traditional economic and financial issues - can help minimise risks and unlock new opportunities and business benefits. Many business decision makers mistakenly confuse sustainable development with environmental regulations and costs, and...
Tags: Sustainability, Financial, Issue, Best Practice, Financial Accounting, Finance
White papers 2002-10-04
A Critical View of Inflation Targeting: Crises, Limited Sustainability, and Aggregate Shocks
This paper presents a critical appraisal of inflation targeting as a monetary policy regime for emerging markets. It is shown that this policy, if understood as a strict commitment to a CPI inflation target, shares many features with exchange rate targeting and is quite different from flexible exchange rates under...
Tags: Currency & Foreign exchange, Free trade, Stanford Knowledgebase, exchange rate, inflation, sustainability, emerging market, appraisal, performance
White papers 2000-11-25

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Building efficiency fund in works for Portland?
The Portland Office of Sustainable Development is formulating a proposal to create a fund with public and private financing that would pay for widespread energy efficiency upgrades in the city's residential and commercial buildings. The fund would remove the financial burden of rising energy costs and efficiency improvements from building...
Articles 2008-07-07
Force Protection Deepens Financial Management Team
Charles Mathis Named to New Position of Executive Vice President, Finance LADSON, S.C. -- Force Protection, Inc. (NASDAQ:FRPT) today announced that it has named Charles Mathis to a newly created position of Executive Vice President, Finance. Mr. Mathis will focus on assisting to build improved sustainable processes in...
Articles 2008-07-07
END Footwear Adds Staff, Advisory Team Member and Opens Design Center
Former Mountain Hardwear and Intel executives join END ahead of August 1st product delivery to retail PORTLAND, Ore., July 7 /PRNewswire/ -- END Footwear, a new sustainability company focused on designing outside gear, announced today it has added Vince Price as CFO, Barry Schrimsher to the company...
Articles 2008-07-07
When it Cyber-Rains, it Pours. Green Tech Co. Announces Round of Funding
AGOURA HILLS, Calif. -- Cyber-Rain, makers of a unique and easy-to-use smart sprinkler controller system, today announced an agreement with a group of current and new investors to provide Series A financing. The announcement comes amid soaring water prices and the need for better water conservation on the part of...
Articles 2008-07-07
Goldman Sachs lowers estimates on 40 European banks
PARIS AFP — The US investment bank Goldman Sachs has lowered its 2008-2010 forecasts for more than 40 European banks, warning Friday that some of them may have to raise between 60 and 90 billion euros to shore up finances in the face of a nearly year-long credit crisis. ...
Articles 2008-07-04
INTOUCH: Ensuring rugby's future
The Waikato Rugby Union should establish strong and lasting relationships with the region's schools if it wants the game to thrive. That's according to the winning team at Waikato Management School's case competition. The team - Once Were Managers - was one of four competing in the...
Articles 2008-07-01
Key Insight into How the World's High-Net-Worth Grow, Sustain, and Manage Their Fortunes
DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/618262/wealth_how_the_wo) has announced the addition of the "Wealth: How the World's High-Net-Worth Grow, Sustain, and Manage Their Fortunes" report to their offering. It is true that the rich do get richer, and more plentiful. Around the world, there are almost 10 million...
Articles 2008-06-30
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