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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
Global Business Digital ArticleVisualizing this complex - and increasingly common - executive role. -
How One Company Used Data to Create Sustainable Take-out Food Packaging
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleA German company's efforts have prevented the use of more than 4.7 million disposable packaging containers. -
What Climate Change Means for Business Before and After Paris
Business and society Digital ArticleA backgrounder on how companies are adapting. -
GE Is Avoiding Hard Choices About Ecomagination
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleAre they in or out when it comes to the clean economy? -
The Performance Frontier: Innovating for a Sustainable Strategy
Technology & Operations Magazine ArticleToo often, companies launch sustainability programs with the hope that they'll be financially rewarded for doing good, even when those programs aren't... -
How to Win in the Smart-Grid Shakeout
Technology & Operations Digital Article[For more, visit Tomorrow's Smart Grid.] Why isn't it just as easy to commercialize smart grid technology as it was to convert the nation's telephone... -
A New Way to Think About Office Lighting
Technology & Operations Digital Article"Pay-for-what-you-use" services can help the bottom line and the environment. -
How to Talk to Your CFO About Sustainability
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleBy now most companies have committed to sustainability efforts--and yet many CFOs still see those efforts as a cost rather than a source of value. That... -
It Just Got Easier for Companies to Invest in Nature
Organizational Development Digital ArticleA new tool can help businesses make smarter decisions about natural capital. -
Hurricane Sandy's Lesson: Resilience Isn't Enough
Organizational Development Digital ArticleTo avoid the worst extremes, we have to reduce carbon. -
The Net Positive Manifesto
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleBoth practically and morally, corporate leaders can no longer sit on the sidelines of major societal shifts or treat human and planetary issues as "someone... -
Do "Quality" Carbon Offsets Exist?
Organizational Development Digital ArticleEverybody wants to reduce their carbon footprint these days. And many companies have looked to the quick fix of buying carbon offsets. But debate has...
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Gong Cha's Return to Singapore: Rebuilding a Popular Bubble Tea Franchise
Management Case Study8.95View Details The case describes the relaunch of the popular bubble tea franchise Gong Cha in Singapore in December 2017. This was seven months after its 80 outlets... -
Sustainability and Innovation: Frameworks, Concepts, and Tools for Product and Strategy Redesign
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details This technical note introduces the concepts and terms entrepreneurial innovators use in addressing sustainability. It explores the evolution of such terms... -
Natura &Co: Sustainability at Scale
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Established in 1969 as a cosmetics lab in the city of São Paulo, Natura grew briskly over the ensuing decades and by 2004 it had become Brazil's largest... -
Kering: Blazing a Trail in Sustainable Luxury
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details People seldom know that the fashion and luxury industry has become an industry with high water pollution, raw material consumption, and greenhouse gas... -
Walden Woods
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details In 1984, Mortimer Zuckerman and Ed Linde, through their firm, Boston Properties (BP), acquired land in Concord, MA to build a 147,000-square-foot, first-class... -
The Sustainability Accounting Standards Board
Finance & Accounting Case Study14.00View Details In 2014, as the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) has just brought former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg on as chairman of the board,... -
Gary Hirshberg and Stonyfield Farm
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Gary Hirshberg and Stonyfield Farm is the story of one entrepreneur's vision and journey to create a market-leading, environmentally responsible business... -
Trucost: Valuing Corporate Environmental Impacts
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details Trucost provided corporate environmental performance data and analysis to institutional investors and corporate managers, but after operating for a decade... -
Kapap Academy: A Hermit Warrior's Mission
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Kapap Academy Pte. Ltd. (Kapap Academy) was established in 2007, following the tragic death of the founder's older brother, with a mission to empower... -
The Environment, Development and Participation: the Dilemmas of Asociacion Civil Labor
Global Business Case Study5.00View Details Asociacion Civil Labor is a private non-profit organization founded in 1981 in llo, a city located in an important mining and fishing region in southern... -
A Note on Entrepreneurial Ecosystems in Developing Economies
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Entrepreneurs looking to launch start-ups in developing economies must confront numerous challenges that their peers in more developed countries may be... -
Too Many Parents? Part A: Governance of Boston's Rose Kennedy Greenway
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details This case study examines-through the lens of governance structure-the evolution of the Central Artery (or "Big Dig") in Boston, a public works project... -
The Challenges of Transparency: Communicating the Pebble Mine Project to the Public
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd holds the rights to the Pebble Mine in Bristol Bay, Alaska. The mine is the largest copper, gold, and molybdenum deposit... -
Banyan Tree Group: Sustainability through Shared Value
Management Case Study8.95View Details In early 2023, Claire Chiang, co-founder of Banyan Tree Group (Banyan Tree), a Singapore-based multinational hospitality brand with several hotels and... -
Environmental Risk Management at Chevron Corp.
Global Business Case Study6.95View Details Chevron Corp., headquartered in San Francisco, manages a worldwide, vertically integrated value chain from the oil well to the gasoline station. Mishandling... -
Largo.ai in Hollywood: Good enough?
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details The case tells the story of Sami Arpa a young entrepreneur with a passion for the movie industry. Sami Arpa and his start-up Largo leverage technology... -
Rewa Solar India: PPP Innovation Unleashed
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Set in July 2020, this case talks about a solar park public-private partnership (PPP) project in Madhya Pradesh, India. Manu Srivastava, Chairperson of... -
Aspen Skiing Company (A)
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details Having begun improving the environmental performance of its own operations, Aspen Skiing Company is considering "greening" its supply chain and lobbying... -
KINEER: A SOCIAL MARKETING CHALLENGE
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details Kineer Services Limited (Kineer) was a social marketing startup set up in 2018 by Lakshmi Narayan Tripathi, a prominent Indian transgender, and Manish... -
SunnyBee (B4): Digital Innovation
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details Supplement to case BAB402.
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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
Global Business Digital ArticleVisualizing this complex - and increasingly common - executive role. -
Gong Cha's Return to Singapore: Rebuilding a Popular Bubble Tea Franchise
Management Case Study8.95View Details The case describes the relaunch of the popular bubble tea franchise Gong Cha in Singapore in December 2017. This was seven months after its 80 outlets...