Reports

“Trends in Sustainability Reporting:  A Close-Up Look at Bay Area Companies,” April 2010

Communicating about sustainability is a new discipline, one that is practiced sporadically by the largest San Francisco Bay Area companies.  This study analyzes how these top companies report on their sustainability efforts, and rates their performance based on 14 specific attributes including:  materiality, stakeholder relevance, target setting / tracking, and completeness.  Based on a review of publicly available information for the 200 largest Bay Area companies and supplemented by interviews with ten of them, the study finds an overall trend toward greater transparency, yet a lack of consistency about how and what to communicate.   This report includes a description of the essential ingredients of a successful sustainability communications strategy and provides examples of companies that are doing it well.

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“Law Office Green Practices Study,” March 2009

When law firms “go green,” they develop and implement policies and practices that reduce their impact on climate change and natural resource consumption. The business benefits of these efforts range fromsaving money to enhancing the firm’s reputation to attracting and retaining clients and employees.  EcoStrategy Group wanted to gain a deeper understanding of exactly what law firms are doing, how they are going about their green efforts and what they see as the key benefits. During 2008, we interviewed many law firms and followed up that qualitative research with a study fielded in the first two months of 2009.

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“Top 10 Reasons New Products Fail,” 2008

This white paper offers the EcoStrategy Group take on the top reasons why new products fail to reach their revenue targets. This list is based on personal observation and opinion gleaned from over 25 years experience bringing new technology products to market. And while it’s not the result of in-depth research or scientific analysis, we think you’ll experience a “been there, done that” feeling about these top 10 reasons.

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