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Sustainability in the Boardroom. Lynn Paine, May 2009, Paper. "One surprising role of Nike’s committee is to provide support for innovation. More and more companies recognize the importance of corporate responsibility to their long-term success--and yet the matter gets short shrift in most boardrooms, consistently ranking at the bottom of some two dozen possible priorities. Many years ago labor conditions in Asian contract factories prompted Nike board member Jill Ker Conway to lobby for a board-level corporate responsibility committee, which the company created in 2001..." Link