Colleagues,
Since 2007, the Network for Business Sustainability has worked with business leaders to identify their most significant sustainability challenges each year.
This year's report, Business Challenges for Sustainability, describes the top seven sustainability issues facing Canadian business in 2016. It also marks a milestone: NBS's last report of this kind. These challenges keep returning year after year and we need new approaches to these enduring issues.
It's now time to reflect: how should we advance business sustainability?
We need to learn by doing, not just thinking. We expressed this year's challenges as design challenges-challenges with desired outcomes. In the next years, NBS will form micro-communities of researchers and practitioners to tackle sustainability challenges like those contained in this report.
We invite you to use this report as the starting point for dialogue and future research. Let's do more than just talk about the challenges; let's find solutions through research and dialogue. I hope you join us on this journey.
Access the report at http://nbs.net/knowledge/top-7-sustainability-challenges-in-2016/ , and join the conversation on LinkedIn and Twitter.
About NBS: A non-profit established in 2005, the Network for Business Sustainability is a powerful and growing network of international academic experts and business leaders. NBS produces authoritative resources on important sustainability issues – with the goal of shaping management practice and research. We connect thousands of researchers and professionals worldwide who are interested in corporate social responsibility (CSR) and who believe in the value of research-based practice and practice-based research. Subscribe to NBS to receive future resources.
Sincerely,
Tima Bansal **************************************************
Dr. Tima Bansal, Ivey Business School Canada Research Chair in Business Sustainability