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The Dark Side of Solar Power
Organizational Development Digital ArticleAs interest in clean energy surges, used solar panels are going straight into landfill. -
A More Sustainable Supply Chain
Technology & Operations Magazine ArticleIncreasingly, multinational corporations (MNCs) are pledging to procure the materials and services they need from companies committed to fair labor practices... -
Why Business Leaders Must Resist the Anti-ESG Movement
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleRetreat isn't just inadvisable; it's dangerous. -
The Circular Business Model
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleMore and more manufacturing companies are talking about what's often called the circular economy--in which businesses can create supply chains that recover... -
Social-Impact Efforts That Create Real Value
Organizational Development SpotlightCompanies don't win over investors just by issuing sustainability reports and engaging in other standard ESG practices. What they need to do, says Harvard... -
Overselling Sustainability Reporting
Communication Magazine ArticleFor two decades progressive thinkers have argued that a more sustainable form of capitalism would arise if companies regularly measured and reported on... -
Why People Aren’t Motivated to Address Climate Change
Psychology Digital ArticleOur brains have trouble planning for the distant future. -
Research: The Unintended Consequences of Right-to-Repair Laws
Global Business Digital ArticleA model assessing their potential impact suggests manufacturers might flood the market with cheap goods, raise prices, or both. -
The 8 Responsibilities of Chief Sustainability Officers
Business and society Digital ArticleVisualizing this complex — and increasingly common — executive role. -
Conflicted Consumers
Organizational Development Digital ArticleHow green are consumers in the U.S.? On one level, we haven't really changed all that much. Many pundits argue persuasively that without the rapid rise... -
How Green Is Your Software?
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleData centers will consume 8% of the world's energy by the end of the decade. -
HBR List: Breakthrough Ideas for 2006
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleWe highlight 20 ideas just bubbling up to the surface in 2006. Howard Gardner contends that the ability to synthesize information will be the most valued... -
When Climate Collaboration Is Treated as an Antitrust Violation
Global Business Digital ArticleCorporate cooperation will be critical in the fight against climate change - but the law might get in the way. -
Why It's So Hard to Change People's Commuting Behavior
Organizational Development ResearchIt'll take more than subsidizing mass transit or encouraging ride-sharing, according to new research. -
What Climate Change Means for Business Before and After Paris
Business and society Digital ArticleA backgrounder on how companies are adapting. -
What "Compliance" Means Now
Organizational Development Digital ArticleFor many years, environmental strategy - if you could even call it that - was about complying with environmental regulations. All you had to do was make... -
The Navy Strike on Energy Use
Organizational Development Digital ArticleEighteen months ago, the U.S. Navy announced it would source roughly half of its energy from alternative sources by 2020. Since then, the Navy has launched... -
What Business Leaders Need to Know About the Paris Climate Conference
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleYes, it's important. And, yes, it will affect your company. -
Accounting for Climate Change
Accounting Magazine ArticleThe first rigorous approach to ESG reporting -
SAP and the Greening of a Service Business
Organizational Development Digital ArticleIt's always easier to picture how a manufacturing company can go green - just cut back on energy, waste, and material to reduce air and water pollution,...
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Lawnsite.com vs. DuPont (B): The Crisis Widens
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details The introduction of a new class of persistent herbicides is anticipated by DuPont as a game-changer for the firm and its customers. Instead, the product... -
A Sweet Dilemma: Sourcing Palm Oil with Ferrero SpA and Nestlé
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details This case focuses on Ferrero SpA's sustainable palm oil sourcing strategy in light of its acquisition of Nestlé's U.S. confectionery brands, which in... -
Lawnsite.com vs. DuPont (C): After the Crisis
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details The introduction of a new class of persistent herbicides is anticipated by DuPont as a game-changer for the firm and its customers. Instead, the product... -
GNFC's Neem Project: Creating the Blueprint for a Social Business
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details The case describes the efforts of GNFC, a large publicly held chemicals and fertilizers company, in establishing a business of manufacturing and selling... -
Implementing the Inflation Reduction Act: Can the Tax Code Transform American Energy?
Management Case Study8.95View Details On August 16, 2022, President Joseph Biden signed into law the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA). The wide-ranging law included provisions for lowering... -
Han Solar and the Green Supply Chain
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details This case study focuses on a sustainability corporate initiative that aims to strengthen a photovoltaic business and to understand consumer preferences.... -
Marfrig's Quest for Sustainable Beef
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Marfrig, one of the world's leading meatpackers, strived to comply with its commitment to have a deforestation-free value chain in Brazil by 2030. The... -
National Parks Conservation Association
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details The National Parks Conservation Association seeks to help the U.S. National Park Service increase its efficiency by incorporating principles of business... -
Haiti Hope: Innovating the Mango Value Chain
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details Haiti Hope was to provide 25,000 Haitian farmers with world-class business and industry expertise to help them grow mangos more efficiently and abundantly,... -
Mistry Architects (C)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details This case is a follow-up of "Mistry Architects: Innovating for Sustainability" (A) (Case 609-044) and (B) (Case 609-086). In Case (A) Sharukh and Renu... -
Kuoni: Missing the Digital Boat - The Downfall of an Icon in the Travel Industry
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details This case illustrates the challenges for a non-digital player adjusting to digital disruption in the travel and tourism industry. The rise and fall of... -
Shell, Greenpeace, and Brent Spar
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details The Royal Dutch/Shell Group of companies owns a petroleum platform, the Brent Spar, in the North Sea. The Brent Spar is an oil storage facility and tanker... -
The Knight Management Center
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details The Dean of the Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB), Bob Joss, must decide whether to make the school's new campus LEED certified. LEED stands... -
FIJI Water: Carbon Negative?
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details Seeking to go beyond global best practices in reducing environmental impacts, FIJI Water, a premium artesian bottled water company in the United States,... -
No Longer Left on the Shelf: How Savour! Made Yet-to-be-Sold F&B Products an Attractive Proposition
Management Case Study8.95View Details Singapore-based tech social enterprise Savour! seeks to make procurement smoother and more productive by linking up suppliers like merchants with less... -
PepsiCo's Turning Point: Establishing a Role in a Sustainable Society
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details In early 2011, PepsiCo, one of the world's largest food and beverage companies, is undergoing immense criticism for its role in social and ecological... -
Competing for Development (B1): The Intermediate Technology Development Group/Practical Action
Global Business Case Study5.00View Details This a role play supplement to Competing for Development (A): Fuel Efficient Stoves for Darfur, product # 908M61. The role plays feature additional background,... -
The Sustainability Sweet Spot at Jiu Zhen Nan Taiwan Pastry
Management Case Study8.95View Details Set in 2022, the case follows the sustainability journey of Jiu Zhen Nan, a 133-year-old Taiwanese pastry brand headquartered in Kaohsiung, the southern... -
SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP ON FOGO ISLAND: SEARCHING FOR NEW WAYS IN AN OLD CONTINUITY (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details The Shorefast Foundation is a charitable organization that aims to spark a rural renaissance and promote economic and cultural resilience in the isolated... -
PMI: DISRUPTING THE TOBACCO INDUSTRY
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details With its mission to "unsmoke the world" and its bold new purpose to replace cigarettes with less harmful tobacco products, Philip Morris International...
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The Dark Side of Solar Power
Organizational Development Digital ArticleAs interest in clean energy surges, used solar panels are going straight into landfill. -
A More Sustainable Supply Chain
Technology & Operations Magazine ArticleIncreasingly, multinational corporations (MNCs) are pledging to procure the materials and services they need from companies committed to fair labor practices... -
Why Business Leaders Must Resist the Anti-ESG Movement
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleRetreat isn't just inadvisable; it's dangerous. -
The Circular Business Model
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleMore and more manufacturing companies are talking about what's often called the circular economy--in which businesses can create supply chains that recover... -
Social-Impact Efforts That Create Real Value
Organizational Development SpotlightCompanies don't win over investors just by issuing sustainability reports and engaging in other standard ESG practices. What they need to do, says Harvard... -
Overselling Sustainability Reporting
Communication Magazine ArticleFor two decades progressive thinkers have argued that a more sustainable form of capitalism would arise if companies regularly measured and reported on... -
Why People Aren’t Motivated to Address Climate Change
Psychology Digital ArticleOur brains have trouble planning for the distant future. -
Research: The Unintended Consequences of Right-to-Repair Laws
Global Business Digital ArticleA model assessing their potential impact suggests manufacturers might flood the market with cheap goods, raise prices, or both. -
The 8 Responsibilities of Chief Sustainability Officers
Business and society Digital ArticleVisualizing this complex — and increasingly common — executive role. -
The Double Bottom Line: Profit and Social Benefit
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleThere is an important shift in business focus in the United States that is empowering companies to not only declare their intent to be ethical firms which...