AHC Group Announces Availability of Free Copy of a Special Issue of Corporate Strategy Today ("CST") on the Future of Corporate Transparency

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AHC Group Announces Availability of Free Copy of a Special Issue of Corporate Strategy Today ("CST") on the Future of Corporate Transparency

NEW YORK, SARATOGA, Nov. 16 -/E-Wire/-- The AHC Group offers a free sample of a special issue on corporate transparency in its quarterly journal, Corporate Strategy Today ("CST#3"). It can be downloaded from its website: http://www.ahcgroup.com

CST#3 looks at the forces driving greater corporate transparency from sensor technology to NGOs and shareholders. It offers advice for corporate decision makers on how to get the "transparency tiger by the tail".

Hewson Baltzell, CEO of Innovest Strategic Value Advisors, Inc., declares in CST#3 that "A 'perfect storm' of mega-trends is forcing companies to disclose more and more information on their environmental and social standing". His data indicates "that effective environmental and social reporting can enhance corporate performance in a number of areas, not the least of which is in providing returns to shareholders". In fact, Innovest has discovered that corporate environmental "over-achievers" listed in CST#3 has consistently outperformed lower rated companies by 3% to 15% per year on the stock market.

Richard MacLean, President of Competitive Environment Inc., takes the reader from today's emerging reporting standards like the Global Reporting Initiative to the positioning necessary in the future to manage disclosure in the face of "hardball competition". MacLean believes "The next step is to strategically map the key performance metrics that will matter in the future. Determining where the company is performing on these dimensions of sustainability is challenging, but essential to future positioning".

AHC Group President and Founder Bruce Piasecki identifies the key performance indicators for corporations over the next 5 years to be:

1. the price of energy

2. the reliability of critical materials behind the IT revolution

3. how you plan to control, trade, or reduce your greenhouse gas emissions

4. how you explain harmonization across global properties

5. the link between stakeholder management portfolio, investment expectations, and what is now call the triple bottom line.

Complementing the other drivers of transparency are breakthroughs in commercialization of advanced sensor-on-a-chip systems described in CST#3 by Michael A. Carpenter and Alain E. Kaloyeros of the Albany NanoTech initiative.

The AHC Group is an independent research organization that has fostered advanced thinking on the effects of public expectations on business decision making for more than 20 years. For further information, please contact Paul M. Bray, Managing Editor of CST.

http://www.ahcgroup.com

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