Developing an Action Plan for Integrated Reporting October 14 – 15, 2010
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Sponsored by Harvard Business School
October 14 - 15, 2010
Integrated reporting begins with a single document, One Report, combining an organization's financial and nonfinancial (environmental, social and governance) performance and illuminating the relationship between the two. But it also extends beyond a paper document, utilizing the Internet to facilitate the integration of performance reporting, as well as to provide detailed information of particular interest to different stakeholders. Finally, integrated reporting is about fostering better dialogue and engagement with the company's shareholders and other stakeholders regarding their expectations of the company's commitments and the performance metrics that ensure sustainability in economic, environmental, social and governance terms.
Harvard Business School's "Business and Environment Initiative" is hosting the first ever conference on integrated reporting: "Developing an Action Plan for Integrated Reporting." The purpose of the conference is to develop a set of recommendations for the rapid and broad adoption of integrated reporting on a global basis. It is not about developing a framework for integrated reporting, but it is about designing a process by which such a framework would be developed and implemented. The format of the conference will be a highly interactive one with plenary sessions in an HBS classroom, break out groups, and informal time for conversation and networking. Plenary sessions will feature panels of experts who will briefly give their views followed by open discussions with participants. While some papers and presentations will be made available, they will not form the basis of the conference.
Because this conference is very much a working one, the invitation list is a small and selective one of about 90 people from all over the world. All of those invited bring valuable knowledge and experience regarding corporate reporting and will include representatives from companies, analysts and investors, regulators and standard setters, the accounting profession, and faculty from throughout Harvard University. The output of this conference will be a white paper summarizing the basic recommendations for which there is substantial consensus, while also noting divergent views. It is hoped that this white paper will contribute to the collective conversation about integrated reporting that is rapidly growing and itself be a contribution to accelerating its adoption by companies all over the world.
To learn more, please visit the social movement Web site http://www.integratedreporting.org.