‘The Boardroom and HR’s Role – with Sir john Egan’ forms the first report from a series of roundtable dialogues that the CIPD and Tomorrow’s Company are hosting to explore issues around how HR leaders can work with leaders and boardrooms to help shape tomorrow’s sustainable and adaptable organisations.

Integrating strategies for corporate responsibility and evaluating their impact, both sociallyand environmentally, is becoming increasingly critical to business. Companies are seekingways to successfully put their strategies on sustainability into practice - strengthening theconnection between corporate responsibility and global competitiveness. This paper summarises the key discussion points from a high level roundtable discussionorganised by CIMA and Tomorrow’s Company, where senior business decision makers met with experts in sustainability. Anant Nadkarni, Vice President, Group Corporate Sustainability, Tata Council for Community Initiatives (TCCI) presented the Tata Index to the group.  This has been captured on video and can be found here.

This Briefing Document, by Tomorrow’s Company, summarises microfinance and its increasing importance. It also briefly describes the most controversial issues surrounding different facets of microfinance. 

This Briefing Document, by Tomorrow’s Company, summarises some of the frameworks that have been established in various countries to support the transition to green, low-carbon economies.  Whilst each have followed their own path the importance of governments and business working together to establish effective frameworks is shared, as are the positive returns both economically and environmentally that are being generated.  This is not intended to be a comprehensive briefing - rather it provides indicative examples. The Tomorrow's Company Briefing Documents are intended to provide the reader with a comprehensive introduction to a particular topic. You can find the full list of Briefing Documents on forceforgood.com here.

 This Briefing Document, by Tomorrow's Company, summarises the steps taken by Interface, a global carpet manufacturing company, to eliminate its environmental impact on the planet by the year 2020. This project, ‘Mission Zero’ is amongst the most ambitious of its kind. Ray Anderson, chairman of Interface and ex-Chief Executive, set Interface on this path to becoming fully sustainable and since his ‘epiphany’ in 1994, Interface have led the way in sustainable business, achieving superb environmental results as a consequence. The Tomorrow's Company Briefing Documents are intended to provide the reader with a comprehensive introduction to a particular topic. You can find the full list of Briefing Documents on forceforgood.com here.