Advanced Leadership Initiative

Residents of Concord, Massachusetts, have a history of triggering important initiatives in geopolitics, American literature, and now municipal fiber optic infrastructure. After a decade of studying how to improve the town's Internet access-and encountering significant opposition from the telecommunications industry-the town ultimately decided to take control of its communications future by constructing its own 100-mile fiber optic network. The project started in 2009 when voters authorized the town's municipally owned electric utility (Concord Municipal Light Plant, or CMLP) to build the network as part of a $3.9 million smart grid able to support control and sensor systems that can improve reliability, reduce costs, and control peak-hour energy consumption. Next, in 2013, the town borrowed $600,000 to fund the startup of an Internet access business, called Concord Light Broadband. The town began making fiber connections to subscribers' premises in early 2015. By the end of 2016 CMLP was serving about 750 customers with service of up to 200 Mbps upload and download. Today the town's network is also helping the town avoid $108,000 in annual communications costs and generate $88,000 in leasing revenue. On the smart grid side, the fiber has allowed CMLP to more reliably control electric heat-storage systems in customers' homes. A contractor serving the town believes CMLP could generate $125,000 in annual revenue by allowing New England's transmission system to time when these heaters, plus electric hot-water heaters, are switched on and off-an effort that would help balance electricity supply and demand in the region. Paybacks on the town's project are not yet fully covering debt service and operating costs, but it is still early days for Concord's network. Fiber-based smart grids have realized significant paybacks elsewhere, notably in Chattanooga, Tennessee. (See companion report: "Smart Grid Paybacks: The Chattanooga Example.") Fiber lasts 30 years, and Concord's smart grid debts will be paid off after 15 years. The town has recently launched a strategic plan in part to guide use of the smart grid to reduce peak demand, reduce operating costs, enhance revenue, and cut greenhouse gas emissions. 2 Cover photos: Public domain (statue); Kearsarge Energy (array); Courtesy of CMLP (fiber map) Citizens Take Charge: Concord, Massachusetts, Builds a Fiber Network Key Findings • In 2009 Concord Municipal Light Plant (CMLP) started work on a 100-mile fiber optic and wireless network to provide backhaul for a smart grid. The fiber passes 95 percent of homes and businesses in town.

In 2015 these 24 towns, all lacking highspeed Internet access, passed borrowing authorizations totaling $38 million to build fiber connections to homes and businesses. They are members of a cooperative called Wired-West. If all the towns went forward to collectively operate a regional network and provide services, they'd capture economies of scale and retain revenue locally.

In 2015 these 24 towns, all lacking highspeed Internet access, passed borrowing authorizations totaling $38 million to build fiber connections to homes and businesses. They are members of a cooperative called Wired-West. If all the towns went forward to collectively operate a regional network and provide services, they'd capture economies of scale and retain revenue locally.

Esta es mi mochila. ¿Os gusta? A mí me encanta. Me la compró mamá el año pasado. Como veis, es de color gris verdoso. Las correas para sujetarla a la espalda son de color marrón. Las hebillas brillan tanto que parecen de plata. En la bolsa mayor mamá coloca la comida, los cubiertos y la servilleta. En la parte de fuera hay dos bolsitas más pequeñas: una es para el vaso irrompible, y la otra para el cuaderno y los lápices de colores. Es por si tengo que dibujar algo, ¿sabéis? En el campo hay tantas cosas bonitas... Pero ninguna tan bonita como mi mochila. No sabría salir de excursión sin ella. A. Garriga Se responde Ennegreciendo una de las tres letras: a, b , c. 1. -¿Quién compró la mochila? a) Papá. b) Mamá. c) El primo Teo. 2. -¿De qué color es la mochila? a) Rojo azulado. b) Blanca. c) Gris verdoso. 3. -¿De qué parecen las hebillas? a) Plata. b) Oro. c) Platino. 4. -¿Qué no sabría hacer sin su mochila? a) No sabría jugar. b) No sabría salir de excursión. c) No sabría correr. PRUEBA DE COMPRENSIÓN DE LECTURA Nombre Curso: Fecha:

“Rethinking The Bottom Line of Firm Performance as an
Opportunity”, refers  to the concepts of Sustainable Development and of the “triple
bottom line”.  The basic idea behind those concepts is that
companies that want to be successful in the long term should be able to meet society’s
needs for goods and services without destroying natural and social capital. The great challenge for business in the twenty first century will be
‘sustainable value creation’, this is, to create long-term value on an economically,
socially, and environmentally sustainable basis.
This is a new and complex agenda for business, and to evaluate performance under
this new market conditions, companies must be able to clearly identify the changes
needed in order to meet the challenge of sustainability, decide a course of action, and
measure progress against the triple bottom line.

El documento muestar la situación en 2004 del tema de RSC en países de América Latina  y los principales temas de
discusión en torno a él;  las distintas iniciativas asociadas al tema sobre la existencia de organizaciones y redes regionales, subregionales, nacionales, empresariales o de organizaciones no gubernamentales involucradas en el tema en los países seleccionados de la región.El documento contiene un mapeo sobre la situación de la RSCen siete países de la región (Argentina, Brasil, Chile, Guatemala,México, Panamá y Perú)

Este trabajo forma parte del proyecto de OEA-CEPAL-YABT,
“Promoción de la Responsabilidad Social Corporativa en Pequeñas y Medianas Empresas en América Latina y el Caribe.” El objetivo del
proyecto es definir las áreas críticas del negocio, y diseñar una
herramienta de gestión con un sistema de indicadores de desempeño de la
sostenibilidad que permita incorporar objetivos de triple resultado
(económico-financieros, ambientales y sociales) en el negocio para promover
prácticas sociales y ambientales responsables y mejorar la competitividad de
las micro, pequeñas y medianas empresas –MIPYMES– en América Latina.
Se han desarrollado numerosas herramientas e indicadores de
gestión para promover prácticas empresariales responsables. Una
característica generalizada de estas herramientas es su enfoque hacia los
aspectos técnicos de la responsabilidad social corporativa. Las mismas no
hacen énfasis en aspectos técnicos del negocio en particular, ni tampoco
en la capacidad de gestión, ni en el potencial de cambio de las empresas
hacia prácticas responsables. Su alcance es limitado para percibir la
realidad y hetrogenidad en cuanto a capacidades de gestión entre las
diversas empresas del sector de las MIPYMES.
La metodología propuesta busca ayudar a las empresas que tienen
una mayor disposición al cambio para encontrar esas oportunidades de
negocios a partir de acciones de responsabilidad social. Utilizando la
metodología de la teoría enraizada, el trabajo explora las características de
MIPYMES exitosas que han iniciado un cambio hacia una gestión
responsable, y busca introducir una nueva mirada, un cambio de
paradigma, en la promoción de la responsabilidad social y ambiental.

On October 4, 2017, in parallel with the annual B Corp Champions Retreat, we will host the Second Annual Global B Corporation Academic Community Roundtable. This year's theme is " The Role of the Academic Community in Scaling the B Corp Movement. " This event is open to university faculty and students and other researchers conducting research on Certiied B Corporations and/or Beneet Corporations (hereafter " B Corps "). We are especially interested in research that examines impact assessment methodologies and the impact of B Corps. Additionally, our preference is for empirical studies, whether qualitative or quantitative. In addition to presenting groundbreaking research on B Corps, the Roundtable will provide opportunities for researchers to discuss data sources and methods for studying B Corps, provide updates on their research in progress, and allow the academic community to develop a roadmap of current and future research opportunities.

The first academic conference on the New Economy and Purpose-Driven Companies, organized collaboratively by Academia B and the academic world, aims to bring together students and postgrad researchers so that they can present their research on this emerging phenomenon. We want to cover it from various perspectives: impact measurement, the inclusion of women and youth, climate change, social movements related to the new economy, collaboration, and other management challenges for companies with a purpose, as well as legal and institutional frameworks.


This conference, which will be held on November 13, will be a milestone for us, business people and academics, to work together on the development of relevant and impactful knowledge of the new shapes the corporate world is taking and the social movements that come along with them. As part of the conference, a Special Issue on “New Economy and purpose-Driven Companies” will be drawn up and published in Academia Revista Latinoamericana de Administración, one of the three top business administration journals in Latin America according to 2014-2017 Thomson’s Journal Citation Reports.

Hoy se espera que las empresas generen
crecimiento económico y, además, sean actores
en la solución de los problemas sociales y
ambientales, que las compañías
trabajen para ser las mejores PARA el mundo.
Muchos empresarios comparten estas
motivaciones. La pregunta, sin embargo, es
cómo enfrentar estos nuevos desafíos para
dirigir las empresas hacia resultados financieros
y lograr impacto positivo en la sociedad y en
la naturaleza. Para inspirar en este camino, presenta
tres casos de innovación en empresas
de clase mundial que están liderando en esta
dirección. Dirigidos a empresarios de cualquier
sector de la economía, estos muestran la
experiencia de dos bancos con más de 100
años de existencia, Bancolombia y BancoEstado,
y de un cementerio, Parque del Recuerdo,
que comparten sus aprendizajes en el camino
de hacer negocios rentables y con impacto
positivo.

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