Triple Bottom Line: Definition and additional resources from BNET
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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

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...
Tags: FINANCE, investor, Quality, SEC, standards, sustainability
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 ...
Tags: Davos, environment, Switzerland, World Economic Forum
Research articles 2006-03-07
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...
Tags: illness, OSHA
Research articles 2004-11-22
Beyond The Strategic Scorecard And The Triple Bottom Line Is The Need For Ethics
In the last decade, there has been a radical shift of thinking on how to measure business performance. The Strategic ScoreCard SSC and The Triple Bottom Line TBL have created other measures of performance that focus on environmental quality and social justice. This paper argues that something more fundamental is...
Tags: Ethics, Business Ethics, Leadership, Management
White papers 2004-03-18
Congratulations to--.(Who, what, when & where)
Martin Edelson, founder and president of Boardroom Inc., who has been named a 2005 inductee into the Direct Marketing Association's Hall of Fame. Marty founded Boardroom 30 years ago, and today it is a multimillion-dollar publishing enterprise. He publishes Bottom Line/Personal,...
Tags: Direct Marketing Association, FINANCE, mail-order, MARKETING, newsletter, SALES, Taxes
Research articles 2005-07-17
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...
Tags: Collaboration, Interaction Associates, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software
White papers 2007-06-01
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...
Tags: Cascade Corp.
Research articles 2005-09-12
LI-based Symbol Technologies' bottom line benefits from settling
Sometimes former executives can have an impact on the bottom line.
Tags: Symbol Technologies Inc.
Research articles 2004-11-05
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...
Tags: OSHA, strategy
Research articles 2003-09-09
Looking for a New Bottom Fishing 'Story'
Dr. Duru submits: By my count, the stock market has now tried to bottom four times since the bear market took its most vicious turn after Labor Day weekend. I did not even have time to think about fishing for the bottom on the first two attempts. The third...
Tags: US Market, Dr. Duru
External links 2008-11-25
Macrovision: to protect the bottom line. (benefits of anti-piracy protection for video recordings)
Macrovision: To protect the bottom line Macrovision: To protect the bottom line
Tags: antipiracy, benefit, Macrovision Corp., video
Research articles 1992-01-10
LOW BOTTOM LINE = DON'T LOWER THE BOTTOM.
LOW BOTTOM LINE = DON'T LOWER THE BOTTOM: It looks like the economist hired by the Environmental Protection Agency EPA to review the Corps' cost-benefit analysis for the proposed deepening of the Chesapeake and Delaware (C&D) Canal from 35 feet to 40 feet will not be...
Tags: economist, Transportation, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Research articles 2001-01-24
E-Procurement: Turn 'Just In Time' Into Bottom Line Savings; Unisys Webcast Delivers the Knowledge Needed to Impact the Bottom Line for Corporate Purchasing Decisions
Business Editors/Hi-Tech Writers
Tags: e-procurement, JIT, knowledge, Unisys Corp., Webcast
Research articles 2001-03-01
Human Capital And Bottom Line Performance
The drive to show human capital investments as part of an organization's bottom line is part of living in a data driven society. However, the most significant driver is the critical role that training will provide in bridging the skills gap faced by organizations who want to remain competitive. The...
Tags: Performance, Human Capital, Human Resources, Workforce Management
White papers 2007-01-08
The Bottom Line on Integrity.(Books in Brief)(Book Review)
The Bottom Line on Integrity The Bottom Line on Integrity
Tags: Books
Research articles 2005-05-01
Saint Paul Pioneer Press, Minn., On Balance Column.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 11 -- SPEED AWARD HONORS BROADER BOTTOM LINE: Brad Googins likes to talk of a "broadened bottom line," a way of evaluating a company's performance by intangibles -- how well employees are treated, which causes the employer takes on...
Tags: Boston College, Strategy
Research articles 1999-02-11
mySAP Supplier Relationship Management - At a Glance
Bottom-line results are the focus of every company competing in today's tough economy. To improve the bottom line, you have two choices - grow revenues or decrease costs. In a sluggish economy, revenue growth is challenging at best. Fortunately, the cost-reduction side of the equation is vastly more promising. By...
Tags: mySAP, SAP AG, Supplier Relationship Management, mySAP SRM, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Purchasing & Procurement, Channel Management, Sales Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Business Operations, Marketing, Sales
White papers 2005-04-01
Amtrak bottom-line improvement continues
WASHINGTON--BUSINESS WIRE--Aug. 7, 1995--Amtrak's plan for focusing on customers and improving its financial bottom line is still on track, according to the company's third quarter financial report.
Tags: financial
Research articles 1995-08-07
An Introduction to Bottom-Line Human Resource Management
"This article explains to managers and academics a new approach to human resource management, what I call “Bottom-Line Human Resource Management.” Bottom-line human resource management starts by positing clear organizational goals, and in this way differs from strategic human resource management, which starts with analysis of the organization’s human resource...
Tags: Human Resources, Organizational Structure, Human Resource Management (HRM), HRM
White papers 2002-01-01
Prepare for the future of quality. (Industry News).
MILWAUKEE--Quality must deliver bottom-line results. According to the findings of the American Society for Quality's ASQ third Futures Study, "Living in the Future," bottom-line results are one of the seven key forces that are most likely to shape quality in the foreseeable future. The...
Tags: American Society For Quality, FINANCE, industry, quality, Strategy
Research articles 2003-03-01