A WORLD WITHOUT CIGARETTES? ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS

Farber, Vanina Jaén, María Helena

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IMD

By March 2020, Philip Morris International (PMI) had defined its purpose, “[to] create a smoke-free future and ultimately replace cigarettes with smoke-free products” and had validated PMI’s materiality matrix. PMI’s statement of purpose (SoP) was first published in the form of a letter from the board of directors to the company’s shareholders and was published in its proxy statement of March 2020. PMI’s sustainability leadership team (Huub Savelkouls, Chief Sustainability Officer and Jennifer Motles Svigilsky, Director of Social Impact & Sustainability) were working on the company’s first ever integrated report (IR) due for publication by June 2020. Connecting a sound sustainability materiality assessment, a concrete SoP and a detailed IR would, they thought, bring together actions and words, and convey exactly how the company’s strategy would create value for society and shareholders. They had the difficult task of setting realistic but ambitious targets, with a timeline to achieve them. They knew that targets – or a timeline – that were too ambitious and that the company could not deliver on could cause blowback for the team. At the same time, targets that were too conservative could lead to disengagement and exacerbate stakeholders’ mistrust and undo all their hard work since 2015. The case is about a company in one of the so-called sin industries that has committed to phase out cigarettes in favor of a smoke-free future based on reduced-risk products.

出版日
2020/11
業種
卸売・小売
領域
企業倫理・CSR
ボリューム
13ページ
コンテンツID
CCJB-IMD-7-2218
オリジナルID
IMD-7-2218
ケースの種類
Field Research
言語
英語
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