We help to translate the loftiest ideals into practical activities through self-critical “R&D for the Triple Bottom Line.” The conventional “bottom line” in a business spreadsheet measures financial profit or loss. Triple Bottom Line analyses add effects on people and planet to the bottom line of profit.

After our success creating the innovative Green MBA program, we continue to work with Green MBA students and many others to make the expertise of sustainability practitioners available to academics, investors and the public, by doing summaries of conference sessions at which practitioners’ work is discussed. One example of this is the summaries of sessions from the Social Capital Market Conference.

We have started building a knowledge base to define the triple bottom line and survey current practice, as presented in State of the Art of the Triple Bottom Line, a white paper commissioned by the Institute.