All opportunities for creating sustainable value can benefit from new, more complete ways of quantifying businesses' interactions with the complexities of the world, or simply New Metrics (#NewMetrics). It's an expanded set of tools for assessing environmental and social impacts, for creating new value, as well as for factoring in previously ignored costs and risks. The Sustainable Brands community continues to aggregate, digest and share leading-edge approaches to applying #NewMetrics, in order to make tangible progress on reimagining business models, stakeholder engagement and ROI projections for sustainability. The present collection is based on some of the cream-of-the-crop thought leadership our platform hosted between August 2013 and August 2014, and we can barely wait for even more advanced examples at New Metrics '14, taking place on September 24-26th, 2014 in Boston, MA.
Download this complimentary collection and discover:
- What the Social Value Index is, and how you can use it to put a dollar value to consumer purchase behavior driven by social product attributes
- Why 80% of the S&P 500 stock market valuation is driven by factors that are not accurately captured and valued on financial statements, and how sustainable portfolios can outperform traditional investing
- What the economic benefits of circular business models are, and how to make the business case for them inside your organization
- How to measure, manage and disclose the impacts of plastics in consumer goods
- How to put a dollar value on human capital and how to then leverage that as an HR tool allowing more informed, data-backed decisions and budget allocations
- Why the next frontier in holistic understanding and management of environmental impact data may require everything to be expressed in a single unit of impact
- What new commonly-accepted principles for characterizing a Net Positive commitment are emerging, and how to capitalize on them
- How internal carbon pricing can work, and why it may make business sense to charge business units an explicit carbon fee
