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Forum
reveals how organizations can build
resilience through sustainability
initiatives
LONDON,
ON, October 2, 2009 - In today's
environment, with companies being
buffeted by not only economic upheaval,
but also health scares and environmental
issues, companies need to focus on
resiliency.
Tima
Bansal, Professor and Director of the
Centre for Building Sustainable Value at
Ivey Business School, will host an Ivey
Idea Forum on October 6 about how
organizations build resilience through
sustainability.
"Organizational Resilience: Surviving
and Thriving Through Crises" will begin
at 8 a.m. at Ivey's ING Leadership
Centre in Toronto. Professor Bansal, a
leading researcher on businesses and
sustainability, will present research
showing organizations that practise
sustainability can better survive crises
and tough economies. She will outline
best practices associated with
sustainable firms.
"Firms
that move toward sustainability are
looking at the best practices for the
long term," said Bansal. "This long-term
vision and the new capabilities that are
created through sustainability
initiatives may give them an edge to
survive, or even thrive, during tough
times compared to their less sustainable
peers."
Valerie
Chort, Partner and National Leader of
EHS (Environment, Health and Safety) and
Sustainability & Climate Change Services
for Deloitte Enterprise Risk, will
discuss how sustainability initiatives
are essential to a firm's resilience and
how to accelerate the connection of
sustainability actions to a company's
value proposition.
"Corporate instincts may suggest
sustainability initiatives should be
reduced or even eliminated during
economic downturns," said Chort. "In
fact, when linked to an organization's
core business strategy, they are
essential to a firm's resilience."
The
event is part of the Ivey Idea Forum: A
Cross-Enterprise Leadership Series,
which provides executives, Ivey alumni,
business students and prospective
students with guest speakers and events
to develop cross-enterprise leadership
thinking on key business issues.
Location: Ivey ING Leadership Centre,
The Exchange Tower, 130 King Street
West, Toronto, Ontario
To
purchase tickets, please contact
Ashleigh Nimigan at 519-850-2999,
animigan@ivey.ca or click here:
Purchase tickets
For more
information please visit:
The Ivey Idea Forum Web site
Media
interested in attending, please contact
Dawn Milne at 519-850-2536,
dmilne@ivey.ca
About the Richard Ivey School of
Business, The University of Western
Ontario
The Richard Ivey School of Business at
The University of Western Ontario (www.ivey.ca)
offers undergraduate (HBA)
and graduate degree programs (MBA,
Executive MBA and
PhD) in addition to non-degree
Executive Development programs. Ivey has
campuses in London (Ontario),
Toronto, and Hong Kong. Ivey
recently redesigned its curriculum to
focus on
Cross-Enterprise Leadership â€" a
holistic issues-based approach to
management education that meets the
demands of today's complex global
business world.
For more
information, please contact:
Dawn Milne, Richard Ivey School of
Business, 519-850-2536,
dmilne@ivey.ca
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