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How Brands Can Sell to Environmentally Conscious Nonconsumers
Organizational Development Digital ArticleThere is an undeniable gap between what consumers say they want and what they are actually putting in their baskets. -
The Dark Side of Solar Power
Sustainable business practices Digital ArticleAs interest in clean energy surges, used solar panels are going straight into landfill. -
A More Sustainable Supply Chain
Operations and supply chain management Magazine ArticleCompanies tend to focus on their top-tier suppliers, but the real risks come lower down. -
The Elusive Green Consumer
Sales & Marketing Magazine ArticleCompanies that introduce sustainable offerings face a frustrating paradox: Most consumers report positive attitudes toward eco-friendly products and services,... -
Why Business Leaders Must Resist the Anti-ESG Movement
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleRetreat isn't just inadvisable; it's dangerous. -
An Inconvenient Truth About ESG Investing
Investment management Digital ArticleIt might not actually work. -
The Circular Business Model
Business models Magazine ArticlePick a strategy that fits your resources and capabilities. -
Social-Impact Efforts That Create Real Value
Sustainable business practices SpotlightThey must be woven into your strategy and differentiate your company. -
10 ESG Questions Companies Need to Answer
Government policy and regulation Digital ArticleOr risk being left behind. -
Overselling Sustainability Reporting
Sustainable business practices Magazine ArticleWe’re confusing output with impact. -
The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleA walk through recent research. -
Why People Aren’t Motivated to Address Climate Change
Psychology Digital ArticleOur brains have trouble planning for the distant future. -
25 Years Ago I Coined the Phrase "Triple Bottom Line." Here's Why It's Time to Rethink It.
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleIt was supposed to be a radical rethinking of capitalism, but it's become a mere accounting tool. -
Bringing the Environment Down to Earth
Finance and investing Magazine ArticleManagers should make environmental investments for the same reason they make other investments: because they expect them to deliver positive returns or to reduce risks. -
Build a Strategy for Sustainability
Sustainable business practices Digital ArticleAdam Werbach, Global CEO of Saatchi and Saatchi S and former Sierra Club president, is the author of Strategy for Sustainability. -
Innovating by Making the World a Better Place
Innovation Digital ArticleMaggie Brenneke, director of the Skoll Social Enterprise Program at SustainAbility. When businesses consider their social and environmental bottom lines, they identify new opportunities to innovate. Some of those opportunities can be surprising! -
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... -
Marketing the Smart Grid
Sustainable business practices Digital Article[For more, visit Tomorrow’s Smart Grid.] At lunch with a colleague the other day, I mentioned that the smart grid would be ushering in a new electricity delivery system that would have a major impact on her family’s use of power at home. She nodded and asked, “What is the smart grid?” I gave my […] -
Growing Business Risks from Global Water Scarcity
Risk management Digital Article“Water Shortage Threatens China.” “California Faces Water Rationing.” “Drought in Australia Food Bowl Continues.” Water scarcity is becoming eerily prominent in recent newspaper headlines — and for good reason. With global temperatures increasing, scientists have told us to expect water scarcity problems like those California and China are now experiencing to increase and become even […] -
Tapping into Ocean Energy
Sustainable business practices Digital ArticleIf you are investing in (or depending on) energy, here is a wake-up call: there is no way that fossil fuel supplies will be physically able to keep up with the world’s soaring appetite for energy resources. Hard data is becoming more solid and convincing with each passing month that global crude oil peaked at […]
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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.... -
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... -
The Plastilene Group: Sustainable Innovation Strategy
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details In 2020, the corporate purchasing and sustainability manager at the Plastilene Group (a plastics producer based in Colombia) needed to address a sustainability... -
Drinkotec: Changing a company, changing a life (A): Daring to change
Management Case Study8.95View Details Franck-Erik Flegbo and Cyril Le Terrien were already successful executives in a major multinational when they decided that it was time to dream, and to... -
Patagonia: Closing the Loop on Packaging Pollution
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Single-use packaging waste is invading all corners of the world. Wholesale change is urgently needed to create packaging that does not wreak havoc on... -
Sterlite Copper: Business at What Cost?
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details Since its inception in 1994, Sterlite Copper (Sterlite), a subsidiary of UK-based mining and metals conglomerate Vedanta Resources plc, had encountered... -
EnerNOC: Turning Energy Savings into Sales
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details EnerNOC - a clean energy company -- sells energy-monitoring, management and efficiency services to utility customers, who agree to reduce consumption... -
Net Positive: How Courageous Companies Thrive by Giving More Than They Take
Runaway climate change and rampant inequality are ravaging the world and costing a fortune. Who will help lead us to a better future? Business. These... -
Heineken-Brewing a Better World
Strategy & Execution Case Study14.00View Details The Dutch company HEINEKEN, one of the leading global brewers known for its brands like Heineken, Amstel, or Desperados and for its award-winning marketing... -
Climate Change: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review
22.95View Details Climate change is threatening our world. How is your business responding? Heat waves, flooding, extreme storms, harsh winters. The effects of climate... -
From Tsunami to Synthetic Farming - Reclaiming the Fertile Land
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details The case narrates the journey of an environmentalist, M Revathi, who as a young child with polio affected legs, could not move around on her own, and... -
A Concise Business Guide to Climate Change: What Managers, Executives, and Students Need to Know
Management BookUnderstanding the ground rules of climate change for business. Climate has changed the game for business around the world. With climate-related disasters... -
Tesla, Inc.
Management Case Study8.95View Details The case is set in 2023. The protagonist is Elon Musk, CEO and Technoking of Tesla, Inc. The vertically-integrated clean technology company designs, develops,... -
Betting on Green Steel
Management Case Study8.95View Details 'Betting on Green Steel' traces the innovative journey embarked upon by a group of MBA students who have set out to conceive a novel steelmaker that pioneers... -
Roche: ESG and Access to Healthcare
Management Case Study8.95View Details In May 2022, Roche Group, one of the largest healthcare companies in the world, hosted its first ESG investor event focused exclusively on its efforts... -
Ford Resource and Engagement Center: Recovery Through the Power of Networks
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Ford Resource and Education Centers (FRECs) were established as a partnership between the Ford Motor Company Fund and GlobalGiving. The FREC in Bangkok,... -
The Big Pivot: Radically Practical Strategies for a Hotter, Scarcer, and More Open World
Strategy & Execution BookWe live in a fundamentally changed world. It's time for your approach to strategy to change, too. The evidence is all around us. Extreme weather, driven... -
Frontiers in Social Innovation: The Essential Handbook for Creating, Deploying, and Sustaining Creative Solutions to Systemic Problems
50.00View Details The one book you need to make a difference in the world. Social innovation and social entrepreneurship are rising forces. As the extent of the world's... -
Building the Governance to Take Capital SAFI to the Next Level
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Asset management firm Capital SAFI wanted to attract new strategic investors and expand to other countries. Having the right corporate governance in place...
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How Brands Can Sell to Environmentally Conscious Nonconsumers
Organizational Development Digital ArticleThere is an undeniable gap between what consumers say they want and what they are actually putting in their baskets. -
The Dark Side of Solar Power
Sustainable business practices Digital ArticleAs interest in clean energy surges, used solar panels are going straight into landfill. -
A More Sustainable Supply Chain
Operations and supply chain management Magazine ArticleCompanies tend to focus on their top-tier suppliers, but the real risks come lower down. -
The Elusive Green Consumer
Sales & Marketing Magazine ArticleCompanies that introduce sustainable offerings face a frustrating paradox: Most consumers report positive attitudes toward eco-friendly products and services,... -
Why Business Leaders Must Resist the Anti-ESG Movement
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleRetreat isn't just inadvisable; it's dangerous. -
An Inconvenient Truth About ESG Investing
Investment management Digital ArticleIt might not actually work. -
The Circular Business Model
Business models Magazine ArticlePick a strategy that fits your resources and capabilities. -
Social-Impact Efforts That Create Real Value
Sustainable business practices SpotlightThey must be woven into your strategy and differentiate your company. -
10 ESG Questions Companies Need to Answer
Government policy and regulation Digital ArticleOr risk being left behind. -
Overselling Sustainability Reporting
Sustainable business practices Magazine ArticleWe’re confusing output with impact.