Sustainability
Joining Forces: Collaboration and Leadership for Sustainability
The 2014 Sustainability Report by MIT Sloan Management Review, BCG and the United Nations Global Compact highlights new global collaborations.
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On Companies’ Holiday Wish List: Board Involvement in Sustainability Efforts
New research underscores the gap between the ideal and the reality of board involvement on sustainability.
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To Conserve Water for Agriculture, a Solution from the Desert
For farmers, maintaining adequate water for their crops is a key challenge in a changing climate.
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Why It Pays to Become a Rule Maker
Businesses have the potential to be rule makers as well as players in establishing environmental regulations.
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The Sustainability Insurgency: Missives from the Front Lines, Part 2
Emma Stewart, Autodesk’s head of sustainability, describes how social intelligence helps CSR advocates promote a culture of sustainability.
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The Crucial — and Underappreciated — Role of HR in Sustainability
HR departments are usually overlooked in developing sustainability programs — yet their input is crucial for success.
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For BASF, Sustainability Is a Catalyst
A focus on environment helped BASF to transform both its product lines and its culture.
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The Sustainability Insurgency: Missives from the Front Lines, Part 1
Autodesk’s Emma Stewart says that social intelligence helps promote CSR and a culture of sustainability.
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Are Firms and Managers At Risk When Contributing to Climate Change?
At what point do corporate executives become personally liable for their companies’ failure to take action on climate change?
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Working Toward Totally Transparent Yogurt
As part of its sustainability strategy, organic yogurt company Stonyfield has made a mission of total transparency in its sourcing.
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A New Perspective on Enterprise Resource Management
What if companies used information systems more broadly — not just to measure profits but also to account for the needs of people and the environment?
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Asia Pulp & Paper and Greenpeace: Building New Directions, Together
An unexpected partnership emerged when Asia Pulp negotiated with Greenpeace.
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How Sprint Negotiates Sustainability
For Sprint’s Amy Hargroves, putting sustainability into practice means changing the business environment as well as business practices.
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Bridging the Sustainability Gap
Measuring sustainability’s impact on revenue, productivity and risk would speak to mainstream investors.
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The Risks and Responsibilities of Tech Innovation
New tech can create new hazards for users — and for companies. Here’s how to limit the risk.
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Sustainability Dialects
In the fourth part of the series, Gregory Unruh describes how sustainability can be introduced into the business dialects of functional areas.
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No Free Market for Energy
To create a level playing field in the energy sector, we need to re-examine our policies on subsidizing hydrocarbons.
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Mobilizing the Insurgency
Installment #3 of the CSR Insurgency series examines how CSR managers can mobilize a sustainability insurgency.
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The Trouble with Supply Chains
Auditing the supply chain is the biggest obstacle to putting sustainability principles into practice. Will the influx of big data initiatives change that?
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The CSR Director’s Office as Insurgency HQ
The next generation of CSR managers needs to consider how to recruit allies in support of sustainability efforts.