Corporate Strategy Today

Corporate Strategy Today (CST) is our flagship briefing on business strategy and corporate governance. It provides applied intelligence by business leaders for business leaders.

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Our Latest Issues of CST
 

ISSUE XIII:
Discovering the Bottom-line Value in Social Response

(Available online only as individual articles)

Special limited-time discount
if you purchase online  — now just $15!

Collectively, these articles examine the short- and long-term risks — and ultimately the significant benefits — of integrating a well-thought-out corporate social responsibility (CSR) platform within an organization's total business strategy.

Issue XIII release date: September 14 , 2007

Articles:
 

1. A. Dwight Bedsole, Director, Corporate Remediation Group, DuPont

   

   Financial Assurance and Long-term Stewardship

   • While financial reporting is a SEC requirement for all publicly traded companies, financial assurance is a requirement of regulatory authorities and applies to all responsible parties, whether publicly or privately held. Here the author tackles the question of the financial impact on companies if the scope of liabilities requiring financial assurance were increased and, as a result, they failed to meet the test for a self-guarantee.
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2. Peter Asmus, AHC Group Senior Associate

   

   Corporate Volunteerism Comes Clean (and Comes of Age)

   • Asmus examines how a growing number of companies that have adopted corporate social responsibility programs, especially those that harness the immense power of volunteerism, are building the business case for these social investments and encouraging them to take root and grow so they are more than just a passing fad.
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3. Richard A. Liroff, Ph.D., Executive Director,
   Investor Environmental Health Network

   

   Financial Risks and Opportunities from Toxic Chemicals in Products

   • In this article, the author discusses how social response product development is an essential strategy for avoiding the risks from toxic chemicals in products and seizing the opportunities that arise from developing safer alternatives.
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ISSUE XII:
Leading Corporate Strategies and Climate Change:
A Few Key Business Examples

This edition of CST includes fascinating case studies about how companies are analyzing and addressing the threats and opportunities of a carbon-constrained world. Some companies are being coaxed into action, some are required to take action, and some have the right environment where taking action has created additional profitable business opportunities.

Issue XII release date: August 1, 2006

Sample article: CEO Table by Erin Crotty, AHC Group Senior Associate, former Commissioner of New York State DEC, and President of The Crotty Group, LLC.

Featured Articles:
 

1. Joan Wales, VP, Strategy and Planning Remediation at BP

   

   Challenges in Governance and Innovation

   • This article describes the evolution and complexity of BP's climate change strategies, including BP's own environmental footprint, a reinvention of its energy products to go beyond petroleum, and a recognition that their climate change strategies are both a business opportunity and a responsibility.
      
2. Truman Semans, Pew Center Director for Markets & Business Strategy

   

   Succeeding in a Carbon-Constrained World

   • Truman Seamans of the Pew Center on Climate Change details the inevitability of a stronger U.S. climate change policy, the increasing business leadership on climate issues, the factors that influence corporate climate strategies, and the effective business strategies that address climate change.
      
3. Skiles Boyd, VP, Environmental Health and Safety at DTE

   

   Climate Change Report Shareholders Request:
   Progressive Action + Practical Steps +
   Strong Relationships = Positive Experience

   • Skiles Boyd of DTE Energy describes how inquisitive shareholders can represent divine intervention by increasing corporate transparency and uncovering business opportunities.
      
4. Steve Percy, former CEO of BP America, AHC Group Senior Associate

   

   The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
   and Corporate Strategy

   • Over the past several years, the author has worked on the United Nations Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. Steve's article brilliantly points out that ecosystem degradation presents threats to businesses through high costs, supply disruption, government restraint and stakeholder demands, and, simultaneously, opportunities to businesses through new technologies and business models.
      
5. Frank E. Loy, former U.S. Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs

   

   Financing the GEF: What Europe Can and Must Do

   • Frank Loy, the chief U.S. climate change negotiator in the second Clinton Administration, provides an international perspective on the latest current events regarding climate change, the Bush administration, and what Europe really needs to do to be the global leader on climate change.

Here is what key business leaders have said about this issue:

Your issue has profound implications. Extraordinary articles in this particularly unique issue which COMPEL the reader.
— Darryl Vernon Poole, President of The Cambridge Institute for Applied Research

It's packed with information, and should be a popular issue among all corporate leaders.
— Sam Smolik, Vice President of Global Health, Safety, Security, Environment and Sustainable Development for Shell Chemical LP

Each article is better than the next! It contains a wide range of important information about corporate behavior, state, and international initiatives and strategic issues facing corporate leaders in the near term.
— Suellen Keiner, Intern Executive Director for the National Resource Council of America (former ED of NAPA)

To purchase an electronic copy, please visit:
AHC Publications and Resource Center

Why has the AHC Group offered this special climate change monograph?

• Since 1981, we have been known to publish "state-of-play" trustworthy analysis of key trends to management on corporate strategy.
• Current energy and oil price volatility, and mounting environmental checks regarding carbon trading, climate change, brand positions, and the future of oil reserves make this monograph's family of related articles both timely and worthy to share with your officers, top operating people, IR staff, and your EHS executives.

Please contact Marykay Greenfield at marykay@ahcgroup.com or call
518-583-9615 if you'd like us to mail you a hard copy for only $100. This designed copy is visually appealing for Board use and leadership council.

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