kick leather into touch’, Financial Times, 22 June 2012.
Natural Capital Declaration, http://www.naturalcapitaldeclaration.org.
‘Let’s look back . . .’ Rachel Kyte, 20 June 2012, http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2012/06/20/massiveshow-support-action-natural-capital-accounting-rio-summit.
Jo Confino, ‘Bill McKibben: fossil fuel divestment campaign builds momentum’, The Guardian, 31 October 2013.
‘The scale of “listed” unburnable carbon . . .’ Damian Carrington, ‘Carbon bubble will plunge the world into another financial crisis – report’, The Guardian, 19 April 2013.
‘as expected, the majority . . .’ ‘Integrated Reporting Making Progress, Needs to Catch Up’, Environmental Leader, 21 June 2013, http://www.environmentalleader.com/2013/06/21/integrated-reporting-making-progress-but-needs-to-catch-up/.
Robert G. Eccles and George Serafeim, ‘Corporate and Integrated Reporting: A functional perspective’, 31 January 2014, updated May 2014, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2388716.
‘best case example’ Robert G. Eccles and George Serafeim, ‘Corporate and Integrated Reporting: A functional perspective’, 31 January 2014, updated May 2014, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2388716.
‘Coca-Cola HBC AG 2012 Integrated Report’, http://www.coca-colahellenic.com/~/media/Files/C/CCHBC/Annual%20Reports/ar.pdf.
‘This Integrated Report outlines . . .’ ibid.
‘I am very pleased . . .’ Chairman’s letter, ibid.
‘understanding the full . . .’ Chairman’s letter, ibid.
‘In times of macro-economic uncertainty . . .’ ibid.
‘We believe the Draft Framework should . . .’ APG, http://www.theiirc.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/297_APG-AssetManagement.pdf.
‘As financial capital is only . . .’ International Federation of Accountants, http://www.ifac.org/sites/default/files/publications/files/IFAC%20Response%20to%20IIRC%20IR%20Framework.pdf .
‘This is advantageous in that accountants . . .’ Carol Adams, ‘What is integrated reporting? And how do you do it?’, drcaroladams.net, 3 March 2014.
‘attempt to encourage mainstream . . .’ Carol Adams, ‘The International Integrated Reporting Council: A call to action’, drcaroladams.net, 17 July 2014.
Waygood sees integrated reporting as the first . . . Waygood in Lawrie Holmes, ‘Information Overdrive’, Financial Management, 22 August 2013, http://www.fm-magazine.com/feature/depth/information-overdrive.
in 2013 Waygood said he thought . . . ibid.
‘We meet with the SEC . . .’ Robert Eccles interview with author.
‘unabashedly focused . . .’ Jean Rogers in Marc Gunther, ‘Will sustainability reporting standards change the way business does business?’, The Guardian, 7 August 2013.
‘like plumbing . . .’ Robert Eccles interview with author.
‘To the extent that this failure . . .’ Andrew Park and Curtis Ravenel, Integrating Sustainability into Capital Markets: Bloomberg LP and ESG’s Quantitative Legitimacy’, Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, Volume 25 Number 3, Summer 2013.
He said that despite the power of such data . . . Jeff Leinaweaver ‘Might new financial tools translate ESG data into real-world loss and profit?’, The Guardian, 26 November 2013.
Andrew Park interview with author.
When I asked Eccles . . . Robert Eccles interview with author.
According to the World Economic Forum . . . ‘The trillion-dollar gap’, The Economist, 22 March 2014.
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story of termites in Jan Bondeson, The Feejee Mermaid and Other Essays in Natural and Unnatural History, Cornell University Press, Ithaca,1999, p. 149.
‘I hope we shall crush in its birth . . .’ Thom Hartmann, Unequal Protection: The rise of corporate dominance and the theft of human rights, Mythical Research Inc., and Thom Hartmann, United States of America, 2002, p. 103.
UK Companies Act 2006 http://www.bbklr.org/uploads/1/4/5/4/14547218/187_ashton_p_how__fred_the_ shred_got_away_with_it_loud_calls_for_company_law_reform. pdf.
According to Kelly, one of the distinguishing . . . Marjorie Kelly, ‘Not Just for Profit: Emerging Alternatives to the Shareholder-Centric Model’, 2009 Summit on the Future of the Corporation, p. 40.
Sukhdev calls today’s corporation . . . Pavan Sukhdev, Corporation 2020: Transforming Business for Tomorrow’s World, Island Press, Washington, 2012, p. 4.
In Sukhdev’s vision of the world . . . ibid, p. 13.
the B Team issued a declaration . . . Jo Confino, ‘Richard Branson and Jochen Zeitz launch the B Team challenge’, The Guardian, 13 June 2013.
‘Why would you invest in a company . . .’ Paul Polman in Jo Confino, ‘Unilever’s Paul Polman: changing the corporate status quo’, The Guardian, 24 April 2012.
Mycoskie speaks about the chief executive officer’s . . . Bruce Upbin, ‘Davos Dispatch: Richard Branson and The B Team Make Business Case for Human Rights’, Forbes, 22 January 2014.
In Branson’s words, these new-wave . . . Richard Branson, ‘Profit is not all that matters’, Business Day Live, 8 August 2012.
convinced that humanity’s future ‘relies on our ability to explore and invent . . .’ Marjorie Kelly, ‘Not Just for Profit: Emerging Alternatives to the Shareholder-Centric Model’, 2009 Summit on the Future of the Corporation, p. 34.
Yunus proposed a new sort of business venture . . . ibid.
He said ‘We were creating something new . . .’ ibid.
‘on its own hero’s journey . . .’ John Montgomery, ‘The Benefit Corporation: The unlikely hero of a sustainable economy?’, TheHumanist.com, 22 April 2014.
The idea for B Lab came out of the experience . . . ‘B Corporation movement wins rich backers in Australia’, Ben Hurley, Business Review Weekly, 20 November 2013.
believing that business is ‘the most powerful man-made . . .’ Jay Coen Gilbert in Joan Brunwasser, ‘B Lab: Helping Companies Not only Be the Best in the World, But the Best FOR the World’, OpEdNews.com, 10 October 2013.
As Montgomery says, ‘essentially what that does . . .’ in David M. Carl and Hank Nguyen, ‘California Benefit Corporations: Installing a Corporate Conscience’, Business Law Journal, 23 March 2012.
‘Declaration of Interdependence’, ‘The B Corp Declaration: Declaration of Interdependence’, bcorporation.net.
‘My generation is squealing like . . .’ John Montgomery in David M. Carl and Hank Nguyen, ‘California Benefit Corporations: Installing a Corporate Conscience’, Business Law Journal, 23 March 2012.
B Lab co-founder Gilbert said . . . B Lab, ‘Maryland First State in Union to Pass Benefit Corporation Legislation’, Press Release, CSRWire.com, 14 April 2010.
Maryland state Senator Jamie Raskin said . . . B Corporation 2011 Annual Report, ‘If Not Now, When?’, http://www.bcorporation.net/sites/all/themes/adaptivetheme/bcorp/pdfs/B%20Corp_2011-Annual-Report.pdf , p. 18.
Catlin Powers said that in becoming a B Corporation . . . youtube 2014 Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wboYZ_ rdRAc, 29 April 2014.
‘Every year in western China . . .’ http://www.actionhub.com/news/2013/08/06/solsource-solar-cooker-reduces-air-pollution-enters-consumer-market/.
‘B Corps might turn out to
