Question

• Find a healthcare company (department or company-wide) of your choosing and examine the financial policy within that company that supports or negates sustainability (i.e., cost, benefit, and outcome). Provide a rationale for your position.

Answer 1

After a lot of research and looking into the financial framework of healthcare companies, I feel Roche remains the most sustainable healthcare company in the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices. For the tenth consecutive year, Roche has been recognized as the most sustainable company in the Pharmaceuticals index of the Dow Jones Sustainability

• It has committed to limiting its impact on the environment and climate change for many years, proactively seeking new, more sustainable technologies to achieve this goal as well as our business ambitions. Their emphasis on sustainability allows us to expand our business while limiting their ecological footprint

• They promise to invent and develop medicines and diagnostics that significantly improve people’s lives. This entails a commitment to working with many different partners to continuously and sustainably reduce the barriers that prevent or impede access to our products.
• Roche has been committed to mitigating environmental impact and climate change for many years, proactively seeking new, more sustainable technologies and processes to achieve this goal.
• They aim to continuously create value for our stakeholders and to achieve sustainable, high profitability. We do this in order to maintain our commitment to research, to ensure our growth and independence, to provide employment opportunities, to cover risks, and to pay an attractive return on invested capital.