The Corporate Good and the Common Good

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. 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.