Impact, New Research

Health: The New Driver of Business Value

Revenues, profits, and cash flows: These are common concerns for chief financial officers (CFO) conducting business across sectors and geographies. Historically, workforce health has not featured among the top concerns for CFOs and other C-Suite executives, including the chief executive officer (CEO) or chief operating officer (COO). For many companies, this is changing. Workforce health...

Brett Tromp, Chief Financial Officer, Discovery Health | Jun 30, 2016
chief executive officer, chief financial officer, chief operating officer, Discovery, Health, king report on corporate governance, National Academy of Medicine, S&P 500 index, shared value, South Africa, united nations global compact, well-being

Impact, Our Point of View

Incentivizing Healthy Food Choices for Better Health

One year ago today, John Hancock and Vitality embarked on a collaboration to create a whole new type of life insurance: a shared value approach whereby financial benefits from individuals living healthier and longer lives can be reinvested to the benefit of the insurer and the customer. Today, John Hancock Vitality announces the launch of...

Adriana Selwyn | Apr 6, 2016
environment, greenhouse gas emissions, HealthyFood, John Hancock USA, John Hancock Vitality, Nutrition, planetary health, Rockefeller Foundation, shared value insurance, South Africa, sustainability, The Lancet, USA, water use

Our Point of View

Making Healthy Diets Affordable

Nineteenth century writer Virginia Woolf famously noted, “One cannot think well, love well, sleep well if one has not dined well.” An unhealthy diet– is associated with four of the top ten risk factors that lead to premature death and is one of the main drivers of rising healthcare costs. Public health specialists have spent...

Gabriela Seplovich and Adriana Selwyn | Feb 2, 2016
calorie-dense foods, Canada, chronic disease, City Harvest, community health, diabetes, Discovery, France, healthy diet, Indonesia, Intermarche, Loblaws, NYC, Obesity, presenteeism, RAND Corporation, Raskin, South Africa, unhealthy diet, US, USDA, World Development Report

Impact, New Research, Our Point of View

Workplace Health Programs Linked to Improved Stock Performance

New research has just been published demonstrating that companies with best in class workplace health programs tend to outperform their peers in terms of stock performance. The key take-away is that investing in evidence-based employee health programs is a proxy for other highly effective business practices and great governance. Three studies published by Ray Fabius,...

Shahnaz Radjy and Derek Yach | Jan 8, 2016
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A New Social Covenant

STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY AND THE WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM GLOBAL AGENDA COUNCIL ON VALUES HAVE ARRANGED A SERIES OF EVENTS TO INVESTIGATE HOW THE CONCEPT OF A SOCIAL COVENANT CAN MAKE A CONTRIBUTION TO THE IMPROVEMENT OF SOCIETY. The objective of this event, taking place just outside of Cape Town and co-organized by the World Economic Forum...

Aug 29, 2014
chronic disease prevention, health metrics, health promotion, social covenant, South Africa, WEF, World Economic Forum