Corporate social responsibility

Our commitment to sustainability is rooted in our 80-year history of what Tom Kearney called the "essential rightness" of the advice we give. Tom strongly believed, and instilled in the firm he built, that it is our duty to improve the world in which we live as we build our business. How we do this changes over time, and today we have an unprecedented opportunity—and responsibility—to connect the corporate good with the common good.

As management consultants, it is our mission to powerfully imagine and rigorously research the future to inform the present so that we help our clients achieve sustainable success. And, today, truly sustainable success is possible only by harmonizing economic, social and environmental factors.

Managing to this "triple bottom line" requires anticipating and capitalizing on the drivers of change — technology, globalization, demographics, consumption patterns, government regulation, and importantly, natural resources and the environment. Each of these drivers creates constant disruptive change, the speed and extent of which is only going to increase. The ability to turn these inevitable disruptions to advantage will define success.

Strategies must be innovative—solutions must be sustainable: They must drive profitable growth while protecting our limited resources, and enabling those people and communities rendered most at-risk by a rapidly changing world.

Our work with clients as well as our own operations must align with these goals. A.T. Kearney is committed to embedding the principles of sustainability into our corporate strategy by assessing and addressing the impact our firm has on the environment and by providing our employees with the tools and knowledge needed to lessen this impact. In 2010, we proudly announced our achievement of becoming a carbon-neutral firm. We will also continue to research and deliver sustainable solutions for corporations, governments and institutions in the communities where we live.

Although our strategies and benchmarks will continually evolve, our fundamental commitment to building on the essential rightness of our advice will remain constant, as it has since 1926.

Media highlights

A.T. Kearney Achieves Carbon Neutrality in Global Consulting Operations
19 July 2010
A.T. Kearney’s approach to carbon neutrality is built on four planks that reach across its entire organization: defining and measuring a rigorous set of carbon indicators, empowering employees globally to develop greener office protocols, innovating new models for client-service delivery and investing in climate-protecting projects meeting the highest international quality standards.

Solar Thermal Electricity (STE) Reaches Marketability – Generation Costs Can be Reduced by More than 50 Percent by 2025
29 June 2010
A joint study by A.T. Kearney and the European Solar Thermal Electricity Association, ESTELA, shows the growing mid-term potential of STE to progressively substitute conventional energy sources and complement the renewable energy sources portfolio with a cost-competitive dispatchable solution – In a best-case scenario industry roadmap involves creation of 100,000 to 130,000 jobs by 2025.

Carbon Management Becomes Key Part of Corporate Supply Chain Strategy for Major Global Companies
1 February 2010 — atkearney.com
The Carbon Disclosure Project Supply Chain 2010 Report, produced by A.T. Kearney, details climate change information provided by CDP members and their 710 suppliers. Suppliers provided information about greenhouse gas emissions and reduction targets, governance and assessment of risk, and opportunities associated with climate change.

Summit Explores Global Sustainability
28 April 2009 — MIT News
Mike Wise, A.T. Kearney partner and lead for the firm's sustainability practice in the Americas, explained the practices' recent study that shows more sustainable businesses outperform their peers.

Investors Demand Carbon-Risk Disclosure
1 June 2009 — BusinessWeek
Shareholders in many companies want more information on the corporate risks of climate change and a study by A.T. Kearney found a link between performance and sustainability.

A.T. Kearney's Cambridge Office Receives LEED Silver Certification for
Green-Friendly Design
12 December 2008—atkearney.com
Global management consulting firm A.T. Kearney's Cambridge, Mass., office was recently honored with Silver certification for commercial interiors under the U.S. Green Building Council's “Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design” (LEED) Green Building Rating System.

Road to Reform: Green Business Travel Turns a Corner
4 November 2008 — CFO.com
Margaret Hansen, A.T. Kearney Procurement Director, is helping establish new standards of reporting environmental impact of business travel.

A.T. Kearney Advances Broad Green Travel Strategy
2 September 2008 — Business Travel News Online
Margaret Hansen, A.T. Kearney director of global travel, is profiled as the 2008 Corporate Travel Best Practitioner for her work with A.T. Kearney's internal sustainability program. Learn more at btnonline.com.

A.T. Kearney's Daniel Mahler Named One of Top 25 Consultants by Consulting Magazine
9 June 2008
Global management consulting firm A.T. Kearney today announced that Daniel Mahler, a partner and the firm’s global coordinator for Sustainability, was selected as one of the Top 25 Consultants by Consulting Magazine in its annual listing for 2008.