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Segal Graduate School of Business
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The CMA Centre for Strategic Change and Performance Measurement at Beedie School of Business, Simon Fraser University is pleased to partner with CMA BC to co-host:
Accounting for Sustainability:
What's the Future of Integrated Reporting?
The event will be moderated by Dr. Stephanie Bertels, Associate Director
of the CMA Centre
and Assistant Professor at the Beedie School of Business.
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Thursday, March 15, 2012 |
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5:30pm |
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6:00pm |
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Harbour Centre, Simon Fraser University
Room 1400-1430
515 West Hastings Street
Vancouver, BC
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Please register here
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The expectations on corporations are changing - how they report and what they include in their reporting needs to keep pace with these demands.
Integrated Reporting is a new approach to corporate reporting that incorporates sustainability reporting into its annual report, demonstrating the linkages between an organization's strategy, governance and financial performance and the social, environmental and economic context within which it operates. By reinforcing these connections, Integrated Reporting can help business to take more sustainable decisions and enable investors and other stakeholders to understand how an organization is really performing.
Integrated Reporting builds on the foundations of financial accounting, management accounting, governance and remuneration reporting, and sustainability reporting in a way that reflects their interdependence. Come and join us for a conversation about the evolving efforts to develop integrated reporting frameworks and learn about how companies are putting it into practice.
Our guests will include:
 Jessica Fries, Executive Chairman, The Prince's Accounting for Sustainability Project & Board Director, The International Integrated Reporting Council.
Jessica is Executive Chairman of The Prince's Accounting for Sustainability Project (A4S), established by The Prince of Wales to "help ensure that we are not battling to meet 21st Century problems with what are, at best, 20th Century decision-making and reporting systems". Over the past two years, she has been Executive Director of both A4S and the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC), responsible for establishing and running the IIRC. She is now on the IIRC's Board and Deputy Chairman of its Working Committee. She has been on secondment to A4S and the IIRC from PricewaterhouseCoopers where she has worked with a wide range of companies, governments, investors and not-for-profit organizations to help them integrate sustainability into core business processes and activities. Jessica will shortly be returning to PwC to lead global activities on the future of corporate reporting and accounting for sustainability.
Jessica is co-editor of a book comprising case studies on 'integrated reporting' and 'integrated thinking' by leading academics published in June 2010, "Accounting for Sustainability: Practical Insights". She is a member of the UK Treasury's Sustainability Reporting Steering Committee, the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy's Sustainability Committee and a member of the European Commission's Expert Group on Non-Financial Disclosure.
Jessica is a chartered accountant, a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, has an MSc in Economics from the London School of Economics and an MA in Economics from the University of Cambridge.
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 Benjamin Miller, Senior Manager, Climate Change and Sustainability Services, Ernst & Young.
Ben is a Senior Manager in Ernst & Young's Global Climate Change and Sustainability Services practice. He has over nine years of professional services experience working with various business structures, with in-depth experience in: tax accounting, financial statement assurance, specializing in assurance of environmental remediation liabilities and advisory services for non-financial information reporting and report assurance.
Ben has significant expertise in Sustainability Strategy Development, Reporting and Assurance, Greenhouse Gas Emission Verification and Financial Statement Assurance. He currently is Ernst & Young's Americas representative on an internal global working group for Integrated Reporting.
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The Value & Relevance of Corporate Social Responsibility in Business Today
Join us for a conversation about CSR and Sustainability from the perspective of real-world practitioners who work in diverse, but connected sectors of the economy, in order to get a better understanding of the relevance and value of sustainable business. The evening will feature distinguished guest speakers from the worlds of industry, consulting, marketing, and finance. Whether or not CSR and Sustainability are central to your career interests, a grasp of the issues highlighted during this event will prove to be valuable through-out your career.
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| Pamela Divinsky |
Principal, Junxion Strategy |
| Susan Stocker |
Manager, Technology and Sustainability, Teck Resources Ltd. |
| Christine Stephenson |
Manager, Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Research and Analysis, NEI Investments |
| Shane Finlay |
Principle on Demand, Sustainability, SAP |
| Date: |
Monday, February 6, 2012 |
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6:30pm - 8:30pm |
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Segal Graduate School
500 Granville Street, Room 2800
Vancouver, BC
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A Candid Conversation with Walmart Canada about Sustainability
You are invited to learn more about Walmart's latest sustainability initiatives and to participate in a frank question and answer period.
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Monday, November 21, 2011 |
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6:00 pm - 8:00 pm |
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Segal Graduate School
Salon Rooms, Main Floor
500 Granville Street (at Pender)
Vancouver, BC
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Andrew Telfer, Manager, Sustainability at Walmart Canada, will be on hand to provide an update on what Walmart is doing in the area of sustainability and will answer questions from students. Walmart Canada has three core Sustainability goals: to be supplied 100% by renewable energy, to create zero waste, and to sell products that sustain people and the environment. Andrew's career spans more than 15 years in the retail and consumer-goods industries. Andrew joined Walmart Canada in 2005. Prior to Walmart, Andrew held a range of sales and category management positions with General Mills Canada and The Nielsen Company of Canada. Andrew holds a degree in Geography from the University of British Columbia.
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Come for Breakfast with a Lift!
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Date:
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Friday, September 23, 2011
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Registration & Breakfast:
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7:30am
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Presentation:
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8:15am
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Close:
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9.30am
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Segal Graduate School of Business
Simon Fraser University
500 Granville Street
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Cost:
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$75 | $50 for SFU Alumni | $50 for HRMA Members | $25 for CMA Members (plus HST)
Price includes contiental breakfast and a copy of 'Lift: Becoming a Positive Force in Any Situation', by Ryan Quinn and Robert Quinn.
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RSVP:
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Please register here.
Cancellation requested beforehand will receive a refund minus a $10 administrative fee.
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Join us at the Beedie School of Business when our CMA Centre for Strategic Change hosts Ryan Quinn - Assistant Professor in Darden School of Business, University of Virginia, consultant to Fortune 500 companies and author of Lift: Becoming a Positive Force in any Situation.
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No matter what roles a person plays in life - business manager, parent, friend, neighbor, and so forth - we all want to have a positive impact, but often, despite our best intentions, we're tripped up by subtle psychological states we're not even aware of. It doesn't have to be that way. This breakfast session will combine cutting-edge social science and real-world examples to describe four mindsets that help people become aware of the unconscious ways you're holding yourself and others back. This goes beyond merely wielding positive influence, with lift, by your very nature, you become a positive influence.
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Ryan Quinn teaches and conducts research on change management, with specific interests in how conversations organize and re-organize our social world. He has studied how conversations influence, innovate, energize, enable collective performance, create learning, and create courage. He teaches in the full-time and executive MBA programs as well as in Executive Education. He has consulted for Fortune 500 companies, private firms, start-up businesses, non-profits, and government institutions, and is a principal at Lift Consulting. He is also involved in the Darden/Curry Partnership for Leaders in Education's Turnaround Specialist program and Wallace Foundation program, helping to train principals and other educators who are attempting to transform public schools in which students are not achieving academic standards.
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IN PARTNERSHIP WITH:
NEW! CMA Centre Research Hot Spots
In 2011 we are launching our Hot Spots series. This will provide an opportunity for local CMA and business community members to engage in lunch-time dialogues with CMA Centre Visiting Fellows. We piloted our first Research Hot Spot on April 29, 2011 with CMA Visiting Fellow, Dr. Steve Maguire, on the topic of precaution. For more information on the Hot Spots series or to suggest a topic please contact Stephanie or Tom.
Current CMA Centre Events:
Segal Seminar Series on Organizations, Strategy & Technology
Started in September 2007 these monthly seminars, led by resident scholars, provide a forum for presenting and developing research.
NEW! Discussing Research on Innovation and Society Lunch Group (DRISL)
A monthly, informal lunch-time research discussion intended to provide a forum for Beedie professors and doctoral students to discuss very early-stage research on innovation and research challenges.
Previous CMA Centre Events
A discursive perspective on substitution and deinstitutionalization: The case of DDT (April 28. 2011). In April, Professor Steve Maguire presented a case study on the rise and fall of the insectide DDT. This work drew on his findings published in two separate papers to explore the ideas of substitution and deinstitutionalization.
3rd Annual CMA Centre Social Innovation Student Case Competition (March 19, 2011). In this third student case competition on social innovation there were 9 teams and 36 student competitions. It was a student run competition with teams made up of undergraduate students from SFU Business and other Faculties. The judges came from the business and NGO communities. The Final Case was "QuestBridge" - a nonprofit program that links bright, motivated low-income students with educational and scholarship opportunities at some of the US' best colleges.
2nd Annual Beedie School of Business Innovation Conference (March 11, 2011). In this second annual conference on innovation Beedie professors and doctoral students met to share their research on innovation. This interdisciplinary conference covered a diverse range of topics such as "Business applications of tablets: iPads in content and context" and "Organizational tracks: Examining the role of momentum".
Social Innovation & Finance Open Event (January 17, 2011). The CMA Centre sponsored and hosted an event open to the public on the topic of social innovation and social finance. Over 200 attended. Speakers included Vickie Cammack (Tyze Personal Networks), Tim Draimin (SiG National), Stuart Yasgur (Ashoka Global) and David Green (Ashoka Fellow).
A change of pace: Institutional work in highly scrutinized environments (January 7, 2011). In January, Dr. Frances Bowen and Jessica Dillabough present their research on changes in environmental regulations and best practices in the Alberta oil sands industry.
International Conference on Institutions and Work (June 17-19, 2010). In this second international conference on institutional work, the aim is to revisit this concept by critically exploring new directions to develop (and problematize) it. In particular, the focus is on the relationship between institutions and work.
2nd Annual CMA Centre Social Innovation Student Case Competition (March 29, 2010). In this second student case competition on social innovation over 45 students competed and their presentations were judged by alumni and faculty members. One judge said, "The winning team knocked my socks off with their analysis and their presentation...I'd say that [the case competition] is a great way to engage the SFU community in thinking about social innovation".
1st Annual Innovation Conference (January 15, 2010). In January 2010, members of the faculty met to discuss their research on innovation. This interdisciplinary conference covered a diverse range of topics such as "iApps in u-space: Innovations for sustainability" and "Positivity and generativity in planned transformational change."
Social Innovation and Social Institutions Workshop. In September, 2009, practitioners and scholars from all round the world came to explore the interplay between social innovation and social institutions.
1st Annual CMA Centre Social Innovation Student Case Competition (May 30, 2009). In the first student case competition on social innovation teams of student worked on a case about Google.org - Google inc.'s philanthropic division.
Annual Research Dinner. In April 2008, Professor David Thomas presented on the topic of Managerial Competence in the 21st Century: Measuring cultural intelligence. [Presentation]
Managing for the long run: Lessons in competitive advantage from great family businesses. In November 2007, Danny Miller and Isabelle Le Breton-Miller provided a number of public, faculty, and doctoral seminars on their recently published book, Managing for the Long Run. Read our Outlook for Change post detailing some of their ideas.
International Workshop on Institutional Work. In May 2007, the CMA Centre brought together some of the foremost scholars in the field of institutional theory to develop the concept of "institutional work". The results of this workshop will soon be published. Details to follow!
Appreciative Inquiry: Creative Dynamic Destinies. In February 2007, the CMA Centre sponsored a workshop on Appreciative Inquiry run by the TCF Training Institute - a social enterprise of The Children's Foundation. Read our Outlook for Change post on the topic of Appreciative Inquiry.
Talk & Action: Getting Results from Inter-organizational collaboration. In August 2006, Professor Cynthia Hardy, University of Melbourne, ran workshops on inter-organizational collaboration. Read our Outlook for Change post on the topic of collaboration - Swimming with Sharks!
Linking Strategic Thinking & Acting: The need for context sensitivity. In August 2006, Professor Julia Balogun, City University London, presented her most recent research on what she termed the "Change Kaleidoscope". Read our Outlook for Change post for more details.
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