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Our purpose at Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA) is to help people across the world lead healthier and happier lives. This passion drives our business and our approach to the products and services we offer. This is why we offer pharmacy, wellbeing and beauty services and products – and it also extends to our Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) work. Indeed, we might say they are two sides of the same coin. In addition to stewarding our business operations, I am also privileged to oversee our CSR agenda and strategy. My two roles, just like our business and our CSR efforts, are two intrinsically related operations supporting our drive to achieve our organization’s purpose. I have a privileged perspective, contributing to running one of the 50 most important companies in the world*, I know that businesses cannot sustain themselves by driving only towards profit. We must understand our roles and responsibilities in the global ecosystem. I have been a manager and entrepreneur for a long time and am thrilled to see growing momentum around CSR in the business community. As more and more companies are contributing to society in meaningful ways, a number of terms for this work have emerged: social impact, corporate citizenship and sustainability, among others. But at Walgreens Boots Alliance, we prefer to call it CSR. To us, it means that the business is taking responsibility for all of its actions and is shaping a world worth living in. We focus our passion and resources on four pillars: Community, Environment, Marketplace and Workplace that are also clearly connected to all 17 of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. Within Community, we champion everyone’s right to be healthy by supporting many partnerships that improve the health and wellbeing of people across the globe by addressing public health issues, like our HO2PE Campaign and our partnership with WE – Free the Children and Unilever.As one of the world’s largest purchasers of prescription drugs and many other health and wellbeing products, we are able to use our knowledge and skills to create activities that are strategically relevant to our business but embody our wider purpose. The “Get a Shot. Give a Shot.” and “Vitamin Angels” campaigns are good examples. I believe it is possible to make a sustainable business and show our investors that we are a profitable company at the same time. We also mobilize our resources to support every step in the fight against cancer. Cancer is one of the biggest killer among diseases, so, as one of the world’s largest health companies, we have to do something. Thanks to our multiple partnerships around the globe, we are contributing to try to find a cure for cancer. With the EORTC Cancer Research Fund, we help to provide tailored treatments for people with cancer. Together with Macmillan Below right: Ornella Barra presents the Prince’s Youth Service Award at WE Day Halifax.“I’M FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO BE A BUSINESS LEADER OF ONE OF THE 50 MOST IMPORTANT COMPANIES IN THE WORLD AND I KNOW THAT BUSINESSES CANNOT SUSTAIN THEMSELVES BY DRIVING ONLY TOWARDS PROFIT”* Fortune 2016 Global 500 listHEALTH 073