BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Triple Bottom Line
- environmental sustainability and social responsibility used as criteria when judging the overall performance of a company, in addition to purely financial considerations
Additional Resources
- OSHA Enforcement Focuses on the Triple Bottom Line
- WASHINGTON, Nov. 22 /U.S. Newswire/ -- As OSHA leads in advancing the cause of safety and health, the Agency is channeling its efforts toward the goal of improving the triple bottom line: reducing injuries, illnesses and deaths on the job. Strong, fair, WASHINGTON, Nov. 22 /U.S. Newswire/ -- As...
- Research articles 2004-11-22
- IT'S TIME FOR TRIPLE BOTTOM LINE REPORTING
- Companies around the world have started to realize that investors are not interested solely in financial performance. Corporate greed and exploitation have created a renewed interest in compassion and sustainability. This is where triple bottom line TBL reporting comes in. TBL entails reporting on economic, social, and environmental issues. Separate...
- Research articles 2003-12-01
- Putting the environment on the bottom line.
- Mar 07, 2006 (Environmental Business - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Delegates participating in the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting have discussed the issue of a triple bottom line requirement for ...
- Research articles 2006-03-07
- One firm's green push; Cascade Engineering makes enviro strides.(Brief Article)
- Byline: Jim Johnson Cascade Engineering Inc., a maker of plastic trash containers, reports that it is doing its part to cut the amount of waste it creates. Cascade earlier this summer issued its 2004 Triple Bottom Line...
- Research articles 2005-09-12
- Assistant Labor Secretary John Henshaw Focuses on OSHA's Strategy for the Future for National Safety Congress
- CHICAGO, Sept. 9 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The "triple bottom line" for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration of the U.S. Department of Labor is reducing injuries illnesses and deaths on the job, OSHA Administrator John Henshaw told a ChicaCHICAGO, Sept. 9 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The "triple bottom line" for the...
- Research articles 2003-09-09
- Commitment must come from the top.
- May 28, 2003 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) More Australian companies are paying attention to the "triple bottom line". Measuring corporate performance against economic, social and environmental criteria is becoming increasingly important for companies in a wide range of sector, including...
- Research articles 2003-05-29
- Is Going Green The Future Of Commercial Banking?
- In the post-subprime world, where government life support for financial institutions is heading into the trillions of dollars, it is a hard job these days to find much that qualifies for genuinely innovative activity in the industry (aside, perhaps, from ethically-dubious products such as life insurance backed securities). ...
- Blog posts 2009-10-14
- Leading In The Collaborative Organization
- Collaboration is at the core of a fundamental shift in business from traditionally hierarchical companies to flexible, nimble, and often matrixed organizations. In fact, collaboration has emerged as a key driver at many of the most innovative and successful companies in the world. A burgeoning number of people know collaboration...
- White papers 2007-06-01
- British Energy sees half-yearly losses triple
- LONDON AFP — Troubled nuclear power generator British Energy saw losses triple in the last six months, while the remainder of the year also looks "challenging", it announced. For the half year to the end of September, losses before tax and exceptional items hit 234 million pounds (338 million...
- Research articles 2004-12-10
- Rolling Stone Knows the Profit-Planet Problem
- Rolling Stone announced today that it will be the first mass-market magazine to print on carbon-neutral paper, so-called because greenhouse gases released in the production process are paired with sequestration activities to achieve net-zero emissions. But there's been some controversy over carbon offsetting, and for some environmentalists, Rolling Stone's green...
- Blog posts 2007-06-11
- ConocoPhillips: Triple Bottom Line Planning Improves Seismic Data Acquisition
- In its operations worldwide, Houston-based ConocoPhillips- a major, integrated energy company whose revenues topped $39 billion in 2000 - has found that doing things right and doing the right thing make good business sense. Its innovative system for mapping petroleum deposits, for example, has not only saved money and reduced...
- Case studies
- Addressing the New Risk Agenda in the Offshore Oil and Gas Industry
- A new risk agenda is emerging, bringing with it new demands on your business and how it is managed. Challenges and opportunities will arise on several arenas within the offshore industry. This report focus on a few: ultra-deepwater development solutions, LNG - the new energy carrier, entering environmental sensitive areas,...
- White papers 2003-01-22
- Sustainable Operations Management
- Operations management researchers and practitioners face new challenges in integrating issues of sustainability with their traditional areas of interest. During the past 20 years, there has been growing pressure on businesses to pay more attention to the environmental and resource consequences of the products and services they offer and the...
- White papers 2006-03-10
- Is There a Future For Socially Responsible Property Investments?
- The purpose of this paper is to explore the potential for a new niche in real estate investing, focused on "Socially responsible" property investments. Socially Responsible Investing SRI in general, according to the Social Investment Forum SIF means investing "That considers the social and environmental consequences of investments, both positive...
- White papers 2005-12-07
- Telstra grapples with triple bottom line.
- Dec 18, 2002 (Ethical Investor - ABIX via COMTEX) Dec 18, 2002 (Ethical Investor - ABIX via COMTEX)
- Research articles 2002-12-19
- Moving with the times: a university case study.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
- Protecting the Future showcases tangible examples of the practical implementation of sustainability and the triple bottom-line plus one (comprising environmental, social and cultural economic and governance dimensions) in the scholarship and operations of Melbourne's RMIT University. Over 13 chapters, the stories of...
- Research articles 2004-11-01
- ShoreBank Enterprise Pacific and Cascadia Revolving Fund Take Bold Steps to Address Region's Toughest Issues
- Merger Addresses Social, Economic and Environmental Health ILWACO & SEATTLE, Wash. -- Two of the Pacific Northwest's leading nonprofit community development financial institutions are merging, creating a loan fund of more than $70 million to tackle issues affecting the region's triple bottom line: social, economic and environmental well-being. ...
- Research articles 2006-09-29
- NAB self-portrait less than flattering.
- Byline: Leon Gettler Dec 14, 2005 (The Age - ABIX via COMTEX) -- National Australia Bank NAB has released a new report on its corporate social responsibility practices. The report ...
- Research articles 2005-12-14
- Corporates urged to be ethical.
- May 09, 2002 The West Australian ABIX via COMTEX -- Western Australian businesswoman Janet Holmes a Court has suggested that Australian companies embrace triple bottom line reporting. Holmes a Court, speaking at a coporate breakfast for charity Anglicare WA's 2002 Winter Appeal, said...
- Research articles 2002-05-13
- Getting in touch with the ethical side.
- Feb 28, 2003 (The Age - ABIX via COMTEX) Triple bottom line reporting is playing a bigger part in the rating of companies in Australia and around the world. Sustainability is one of the indices now used by Dow Jones. Such reporting takes into account...
- Research articles 2003-02-28
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