Resources

Miller Consultants' Newsletters:

• July 2012
• January 2012
• August 2010
• February 2010

Book Contribution:

In October of 2010, Dr. Miller Perkins was invited by the Harvard Business School to join approximately 100 key international stakeholders in a conference on corporate integrated reporting.  Integrated reports combine a company's financial, environmental, social and governance performance measures. The intent is to provide stakeholders a transparent, past/present/future view of how the corporation is living up to its commitments in each area.  According to the organizer, HBS professor Robert G. Eccles, the meeting was the largest gathering of global leaders to address this topic, which included financial and accounting professional, regulators, corporate executives, educators, fund managers and environmental sustainability advocates.

Nitin Nohria, Dean of the Harvard Business School, told the attendees that "integrated reporting is one effort to start to restore the trust we have lost with society, it is an extraordinarily promising idea... as important a topic as we have at this time". 

Subsequent to the workshop, Dr. Miller Perkins was invited to contribute two chapters to the publication of a book encompassing the participant's contributions to this issue, entitled, "The Landscape of Integrated Reporting".  Here are links to the book, to an executive summary of the book and to each of Dr. Miller Perkins' chapters:

• The Landscape of Integrated Reporting
• HBS Integrated Reporting Workshop- Executive Summary
• Integrated Reporting and the Collaborative Community (Miller Perkins Chapter) and
• Employee Engagement and the Holy Grail (Miller Perkins Chapter)

Research Studies:

Sustainability Culture and Leadership Assessment Pilot, conducted in December of 2010

• Full Report
• Executive Summary

Articles by Miller Consultants:

• Sustainability at Dow Chemical, Kathleen Miller Perkins Ph.D. Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, Spring 2012
• Success for the Long Run: Sustainable Companies Are the Winners · Environmental Management & Energy News · Environmental Leader, Kathleen Miller Perkins Ph.D. Environmental Leader, July 30th, 2012
• Collaboration: Challenge for the Water Industry- Kathleen Miller Perkins Ph.D and Kathy Irvine,, Environmental Leader, July 22nd, 2012
• Seeking Sustainability? Encourage Discussion of Conflicting Viewpoints- Kathleen Miller Perkins Ph.D., Environmental Leader, March 19th, 2012
• How to Engage in Sustainability With Higher Purpose Kathleen Miller Perkins Ph.D., Environmental Leader, January 12th, 2012
• Employee Engagement-Why Do It If You Can’t Do it Right?- Kathleen Miller Perkins Ph.D., Environmental Leader, December 12th, 2011
• Does the Public Trust You?- Kathleen Miller Perkins Ph.D., Environmental Leader, November 16th, 2011
• Why Sustainable Companies Have More Engaged Employees- Kathleen Miller Perkins Ph.D., Environmental Leader, September 22nd, 2011
• Integrated Reporting: Why Do It and What Makes It Work?- Kathleen Miller Perkins Ph.D. and Kathy Irvine, Environmental Leader, August 11, 2011
• Sustainable Leadership: What Some Companies Do that Others Don't- Kathleen Miller Perkins Ph.D., Environmental Leader, July 14, 2011
• Executing Your Sustainability Strategy: Three Critical Steps- Kathleen Miller Perkins Ph.D., Environmental Leader, June 15, 2011
• Two Cultural Pillars in Dow Chemical's Sustainability Strategy- Kathleen Miller Perkins Ph.D., Environmental Leader, May 16, 2011
• Valvoline Mobilizes Commitment to "Green"- Kathleen Miller Perkins Ph.D. & Kendra Coleman, Environmental Leader, April 12, 2011
• Follow Best Practices to Make Mergers Work- Kathleen Miller Perkins Ph.D., Louisville Business First, March 25, 2011
• Sustainability: Can Leaders Meet the Challenge?- Kathleen Miller Perkins Ph.D., Environmental Leader, March 15, 2011
• Environmental Lessons Learned from 2010- Kathleen Miller Perkins Ph.D. & Kathi Irvine, Environmental Leader, February 8, 2011
• Graduating to the Next Level Of Sustainability; How companies can take corporate responsibility from piecemeal to comprehensive- Kendra Coleman, Miller Consultants and John Hoekstra, Summit Energy, Industry Week, Nov. 29, 2010
• A Clear and Present Leader- Kathleen Miller Perkins, Ph.D., Inside Supply Management, October 2010
• 5 Reasons Why Small Businesses Should Care about Sustainability- Kathleen Miller Perkins, Ph.D., GreenBiz.com- Oct. 13, 2010
• Uncertainty Isn't Going Away- How Can Companies Survive and Thrive? Kathleen Miller Perkins, Ph.D., MWorld, American Management Association, Fall 2010
• Sustainability in the B2B World Kathleen Miller Perkins, Ph.D. & Bill Brewer (Summit Energy), Triple Pundit, Aug. 19, 2010
  
• 3 Change Management Challenges to Sustainability-

            Kathleen Miller Perkins, Ph.D. Green Nurture, July 8, 2010

• Opportunity in Uncertain Times: Commit to Sustainability- Kathleen Miller Perkins, Ph.D., GreenNurture, June 7, 2010
• Sustainability and the Customer Experience- Kathleen Miller Perkins, Ph.D., Triple Pundit Magazine, April 12, 2010

• Going Virtual- Kathleen Miller Perkins, Ph.D., Consulting Today, 2007
• Unique Competencies for a Unique Company- Kathleen Miller Perkins, Ph.D. & Leslie Hunt, Consulting Today, 2007
• Assessing Your Institution's Culture- Kathleen Miller Perkins, Ph.D., Risk Management Journal, January 2004
• Continual Learning: The Ultimate Skill-set Builder- Kathleen Miller Perkins, Ph.D. and Virginia Smith Major Ph.D., Inside Supply Management, March 2002

Articles About Miller Consultants:

Sustainability: An Interview with Kathy Miller- author Sue Morgan, OnTrack Consulting

Five Ways To Build A Virtual Company A guide to staying small but playing big- Christopher Steiner, Forbes Magazine, September 21, 2010

Virtual Model Allows Consulting Firm to Become Million-Dollar Business- Mary Flaherty, RainToday.com, 2010

Wherever You Go, There You Are- Entrepreneur Magazine, February 2004

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