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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
Organizational Development 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
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
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
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... -
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! -
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 […] -
How to Align Customer Value With Green Value
Sustainable business practices Digital ArticleIn most discussions I have with people about sustainable brands and product or service offerings, someone inevitably asks, “But will customers pay a premium for green products?” With the downturn in the economy, this question has been arising earlier in the conversation and is framed more as a statement: “But customers won’t pay a premium […]
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Bulb 2018: Hypergrowth
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details After a wild and volatile year, Bulb, a new entrant in the UK residential energy market, ended March 2018 with 329,171 properties, 1.2% of the total residential... -
Gram Oorja: Energy Access for Remote Rural India
Management Case Study8.95View Details Gram Oorja's mission was to make energy available to people in remote areas in India where the government power supply grid had not reached. They installed... -
Legrand: Lightening Their (Electricity) Load
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details This case illustrates the key factors that Tim Travis, the maintenance lead for Legrand North American, must consider in a capital investment decision... -
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... -
Sustainability at IKEA Group
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details By 2014, IKEA Group was the largest home furnishing company, with EUR28.5 billion of sales, and planned to reach EUR50 billion by 2020, mainly from emerging... -
First to Fight? Culture, Tradition and the United States Marine Corps (USMC)
Management Case Study8.95View Details Over a history of more than 240 years, the United States Marine Corps has forged a distinct culture and institutional identity centered on its "warrior... -
HBR's 10 Must Reads 2024: The Definitive Management Ideas of the Year from Harvard Business Review (with bonus article "Democratizing Transformation" by Marco Iansiti and Satya Nadella)
24.95View Details A year's worth of management wisdom, all in one place. We've reviewed the ideas, insights, and best practices from the past year of Harvard Business Review... -
Technologies Ecofixe: Green Wastewater Treatment for Africa
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details In September 2018, Marisol Labrecque, president of Technologies Ecofixe Inc. (Technologies Ecofixe), was heading to Ain Taoujdate, Morocco, in order to... -
BluSmart: Building an Eco-Friendly Experience in App-Based Ride-Hailing Services
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Blu-Smart Mobility Pvt. Ltd. (BluSmart) was India's first company to foray into the electric mobility space. Launched in 2019, BluSmart offered ride sharing,... -
Carbon Engineering
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Dr. David Keith, President of Carbon Engineering, a company based in Calgary, Alberta, is commercializing a technology to capture carbon dioxide (CO2)... -
Career at a Crossroad: Akhil and Roopa
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Akhil Patel is passionate about his business idea: an innovative green technology fuel cell. He wants to dive in and commit to his startup, but Roopa... -
HBR's 10 Must Reads for Executives 8-Volume Collection
175.00View Details You want the most important ideas for executives all in one place. Now you can have them--in a set of HBR's 10 Must Reads, available as an 8-volume paperback... -
Akshaya Patra: The Covid-19 Pandemic and Thereafter
Management Case Study8.95View Details The Akshaya Patra Foundation (TAPF) is a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) headquartered in Bengaluru, India. It was founded by ISKON (religious foundation)... -
Fugumobile: Setting Up a Local Digital Marketing Company in China
Management Case Study8.95View Details In 2006, two entrepreneurs founded Fugumobile Co. Ltd., a digital marketing agency based in Shanghai, China. The company grew organically in China by... -
Meat the Needs: Giant Foods' Meat Rescue Program
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details The decision focuses on sustainable green retailing strategies surrounding meat donations by Giant Foods in their meat rescue pilot program called "Meat... -
BOCHK: Go Green with Banks, and with your Mortgages
Management Case Study8.95View Details This case discusses how BOCHK utilizes and apply sustainable finance concepts to develop a new service - green mortgage which is the first ever green... -
Chairman Zhang and Broad Group: Growth Dilemmas
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study14.00View Details Zhang Yue, founder and chairman of Broad Group, had developed a series of innovative products aimed at solving China's environmental problems. Broad Group's... -
Explo Leisure Products
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Tim Trowac and Dave Rahall, two former investment bankers, skillfully execute the leveraged buyout of a golf ball recycling company after working intensely... -
Indigo Agriculture: Harnessing Nature
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details Indigo Agriculture used a digital-enabled research and development (R&D) process to launch its initial product, microbial coatings for agricultural seeds,...
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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
Organizational Development 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
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
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
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...