Social Responsibility

AI can help with the climate crisis — although it risks sabotaging its accomplishments with its swelling energy use.

Sustainability initiatives can be profitable if managers think creatively about pricing, market demand, and costs.

Amid rising cultural divides, business leaders face tough choices on public stances and must consider multiple audiences.

On the Me, Myself, and AI podcast, Meta’s head of AI research describes new initiatives and support for open research.

Learn from the fast-paced decarbonization effort led by the 2024 Paris Olympics sustainability team.

Extract more value from materials and resources and improve sustainability by examining your products’ full life cycles.

On the Me, Myself, and AI podcast, Nobel Prize winner Paul Romer discusses the opportunities AI brings to education.

Companies serious about sustainability need to make a business case for investing in lobbying to advance climate policy.

A three-part framing outlines the reasons for businesses to act on the world’s climate change challenges.

Using values to guide decisions can benefit customers and improve operations and the bottom line.

Stock market reactions to the appointment of Black CEOs reflects both positive sentiment and negative biases.

Sharing values with customers builds loyalty and can be a valuable differentiator in competitive markets.

Many U.S. companies will soon have to follow EU sustainability reporting mandates — and contend with double materiality.

Anti-ESG sentiment led to “greenhushing” in 2023, even as the planet experienced its hottest year ever. What’s next?

Artificial intelligence developers can make choices that will reduce the emissions generated by AI training models.

This issue of MIT SMR focuses on sustainability, customer and employee engagement, and strategic planning.

Large AI models are big energy consumers and carbon emitters. Sustainable AI practices can reduce their environmental impact.

Mandatory sustainability reporting will help companies show investors how they intend to manage risk and create value.

Business leaders need to set interim targets judiciously to get early wins and build momentum for sustainability goals.

To comply with new sustainability rules, consumer brands need much more visibility into products’ chemical compositions.