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Great Transition corporation 2020 Allen White
Great Transition corporation 2020 Allen White
Allen White, Ph.D.
Senior Fellow
awhite@tellus.org
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Dr. Allen L. White is Vice President and Senior Fellow at Tellus Institute, Boston, USA, and directs the institutes Program on Corporate Redesign.
In 1997, he co-founded the Global Reporting Initiative (Global reporting Initiative) and served as its Acting CEO until 2002. In 2004, he co-founded and is now Director of Corporation 2020 (www.corporation2020.org), an initiative focused on designing future corporations to create and sustain social mission. For his expertise in sustainability strategy, policy, tools, and standards, he has been engaged by: multilateral organizations such as the World Bank and Inter-American Development Bank; foundations such as the Pew Charitable Trusts and the UN Foundation; numerous Fortune 500 companies; US EPA; and NGOs such as Oxfam and People4Earth. Dr. White has held faculty and research positions at the University of Connecticut, Clark University, and Battelle Laboratories, and he is a former Fulbright Scholar in Peru. He was Founding Chair of GAN-Net/iScale and has served on boards, advisory groups and committees of the International Corporate Governance Network, Civic Capital, Instituto Ethos (Brazil), the New Economy Network, New Earth/Earthster, and the Initiative for Responsible Investment at the JFK School, Harvard University. Since 2005, Dr. White has served as Senior Advisor to Business for Social Responsibility and to CERES as a principal architect of the first standardized environmental reporting framework in the years following launch of the organization in 1990. He is co-author of Corporate Environmentalism in a Global Economy and has published and spoken widely on corporate design, sustainability, accountability, and governance.
Corporation 2020
Great Transition of companies and the world economy
Announcing the Corporation 2020 Alliance
Redesigning todays corporation to embed social purpose, ensure a positive planetary footprint and create generative enterprise may be the foremost challenge of the 21st century.
Because corporations represent the lion's share of global economic activity, such redesign is a pre-condition to achieving the transformational change essential to addressing the social and ecological perils facing the world in the coming years.
In 2004, Allen White and Marjorie Kelly of the Tellus Institute launched "Corporation 20/20", an initiative to envision models of the future corporation, both financial and non-financial, and the enabling institutions aligned with such visions. (www.corporation2020.org).
In 2011, recognizing that time is of the essence to avoid overshooting the Earth's ecological limits, Pavan Sukhdev at Yale University drew from the vision of Corporation 20/20 and other thought leaders to prioritize four crucial, time-bound changes to begin transforming todays dominant 20th-century corporate model into tomorrows Corporation 2020 (www.corp2020.com).
These complementary initiatives, which bridge long-term visions with a near term change agenda, have come together to form the Corporation 2020 Alliance: Transforming Today Corporation for Tomorrows World. We invite partners from business, investment, government and civil society who share our sense of urgency and opportunity to participate in this new alliance to transform todays corporation for tomorrows world.
Please visit www.corporation2020.org for updates on the Alliances research, meetings, communications and other activities.
SPONSORS
CORPORATION 20/20 GRATEFULLY ACKNOWLEDGES THE GENEROUS SUPPORT FOR ITS OVERALL PROGRAM AND SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES FROM THE FOLLOWING ORGANIZATIONS:
Sponsorships
AVEDA
Citi
The Corporate Library
Department of Trade and Industry (UK)
Domini Social Investments
Gardener's Supply Company
General Electric Company
The Global Legacy Group
Granite Construction
Green Mountain Coffee Roasters
GreenPeace
Henkel Corporation
Hewlett-Packard
KLD Research and Analytics
Metanoia Fund
Monterey Institute for Social Architecture
Morgan Family Foundation
Pierre and Pamela Omidyar Fund
Portfolio 21 Investments
Seventh Generation
South Mountain Company
State Street Corporation
Anonymous
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