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Sustainability's Faustian Dilemma
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleWe all remember the SunChips Episode of 2010. Frito-Lay introduced bio-degradable packaging for SunChips in March, and was surprised to see sales of the... -
Our Brains Love New Stuff, and It's Killing the Planet
Sales & Marketing Digital ArticleCan we trick ourselves into making smarter choices? -
What 1,000 CEOs Really Think About Climate Change and Inequality
Corporate social responsibility Digital ArticleThe good, the bad, and the surprising from a new report. -
How to Make Fossil Fuel Divestment Really Matter
Organizational Development Digital ArticleIt's not enough to stop investing in fossil fuels. -
10 Sustainable Business Stories That Shaped 2015
Organizational Development Digital ArticleFrom Paris to the Pope. -
Pittsburgh's Transformation Is a Model for Clean Energy Innovation
Organizational Development Digital ArticleBusiness leaders worked together with city government officials. -
A Company's Good Deeds Can Energize Employees
Global Business Digital ArticleTwo examples of iconic companies acting with purpose. -
Vanguard Confronts an Inconvenient Truth
Global Business Digital ArticleIts controversial withdrawal from a climate alliance actually clarifies the path to net zero. -
Why Has the EV Market Stalled?
Marketing Digital ArticleIf automakers want to boost sales, they must cater to a different set of interests and concerns. -
Fighting Diabetes in the 21st Century
Global Business Digital ArticleWe need a new strategy. -
Politicians Who Deny Climate Change Cannot Be "Pro-Business"
Global Business Digital ArticleClimate change is real, no matter what America's political parties say (or don't say). -
Managers, What’s Your Plan For Climate Change?
Crisis management Digital ArticleIt’s time for every manager to think concretely about how they’d handle the fallout from a major weather event. -
If You Think Fighting Climate Change Will Be Expensive, Calculate the Cost of Letting It Happen
Organizational Development Digital Article$1.5 trillion for major cities, for example. -
The Drop in Oil Prices Might Be Bad for Business
Organizational Development Digital ArticleIt lets us delay necessary investments. -
Corporate Sustainability Efforts: Feast or Famine?
Organizational Development Digital ArticleIs corporate sustainability on the wane or growing more important to top executives? At the beginning of the year, two big-picture reports on the state... -
The 3 Stages of a Country Embracing Renewable Energy
Global Business Digital ArticleManaging the transition well benefits companies and the environment. -
The CEO of Coca-Cola on Using the Company's Scale for Good
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleA Q&A with Muhtar Kent. -
Hummer's Demise and Lessons Learned
Organizational Development Digital ArticleThe proposed sale of GM's Hummer brand to a Chinese company fell through this week, and GM will now shutter the company. The ultimate symbol of overconsumption... -
Getting a Clearer View of Your Company’s Carbon Footprint
Environmental sustainability Digital ArticleE-liability accounting has helped a Singapore-based tire manufacturer and a German cement producer reduce their emissions. -
We Are Nowhere Near Stakeholder Capitalism
Global Business Digital ArticleTo serve more than just shareholders, businesses have to dramatically transform their performance metrics.
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Integrated Project Delivery at Autodesk, Inc (C)
Technology & Operations Case Study5.00View Details Describes Autodesk's engagement in Integrated Project Delivery-a new model of risk management, inter-firm teamwork, and multi-objective (aesthetic, cost,... -
Nike Football: World Cup 2010 (B)
Sales & Marketing Case Study5.00View Details Details Nike Football's marketing efforts in the lead up to and during the World Cup in South Africa (2010). Allows students to reflect on the implementation... -
Living PlanIT
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details Living PlanIT is a start-up company that has developed a new, innovative business model for sustainable urbanization. This model reflects the software... -
Nike Football: World Cup 2010 South Africa
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details Nike's Football division needs to devise a strategy to excel at the 2010 World Cup games in South Africa. Nike has gone from a niche player in the market... -
Mãe Terra and Unilever (B)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details Unilever is making strides to integrate the operations of Mae Terra-one of Brazil's leading brands for packaged organic foods-into its own structures,... -
Clean Energy for the Future
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details This is an industry note on renewable energy-wind, solar, governmental incentives and storage. It covers the recent history of both the wind and solar... -
HBR's 10 Must Reads 2022 (Paperback + Ebook)
Leadership & Managing People Special Offer34.95View 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... -
Aspen Skiing Company (C)
Technology & Operations Case Study5.00View Details Having begun improving the environmental performance of its own operations, Aspen Skiing Company is considering "greening" its supply chain and lobbying... -
S H E: Style Her Empowered
Management Case Study11.95View Details Payton McGriff, founder of the nonprofit S H E (Style Her Empowered) must decide on a plan to meet S H E's goal of sponsoring one million girls in primary... -
The Manager's Job at BP: Decision Making and Responsibilities on the High Seas
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Based on public documents, the case revisits the recent history of the world's fourth largest company, BP p.l.c. The events described confront students... -
Climate Change: Tools for Preparing Your Team for the Future
99.95View Details Climate change is threatening our world. How is your business responding? Heat waves, flooding, extreme storms, harsh winters. The effects of climate... -
Aviva Investors
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details The case describes Aviva Investors' engagement strategy with companies and stock exchanges to improve its sustainability performance and the flow of sustainability... -
Patagonia (B)
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details Patagonia produces high-quality environmentally friendly garments that command significant price premiums. In Spring 2010, Patagonia rolled out a new,... -
Genzyme Center (C)
Technology & Operations Case Study5.00View Details Genzyme Corporation is in the midst of planning its new corporate headquarters, which incorporates many innovative green building features. After learning... -
SunnyBee (B2): Sustainability
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details Supplement to case BAB402. -
MUNGO MILL SOUTH AFRICA: LEADING A SUSTAINABILITY STRATEGY DURING COVID-19
Management Case Study11.95View Details The case features Dax Holding, Managing Director of Mungo Mill, Plettenberg Bay, Western Cape Province, South Africa, considering the decisions he needs... -
Wilmar International Limited - Managing Multiple Stakeholders in a Global Palm Oil Agribusiness Group
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Established in 1991, Wilmar grew rapidly to become one of the largest palm oil companies in Southeast Asia, with revenue and net profits of US$23.9 billion... -
Enbridge: Looking Toward the Future
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details In 2009, Enbridge announced the Neutral Footprint program to enhance its social licence to operate, increase its corporate responsibility, and in turn... -
Patagonia's Path to Carbon Neutrality by 2025
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details This case study describes Patagonia's goal to become carbon neutral by 2025 in an absolute sense -- that is to reduce emissions to zero while still growing... -
Nestle: Agricultural Material Sourcing Within the Concept of Creating Shared Value (CSV)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Corporate Head of Agriculture Hans Jöhr's mind raced in anticipation of the executive board meeting that afternoon. Jöhr recognized the meeting as a key...
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Wilderness Safaris: Impact Investing and Ecotourism Conservation in Africa
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details In 2018 the majority ownership of publicly owned Wilderness Safaris, the leading high-end ecotourism company in Africa with safari operations in eight... -
Me to We: A Social Enterprise and Its Future Growth
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Me to We was a Canadian social enterprise created in 2008 to provide a stable source of funds to finance Free the Children, a non-profit organization... -
How to Measure a Company's Real Impact
Organizational Development Digital ArticleA comprehensive new approach to quantifying an organization's footprint on the world. -
Disrupting the Meat Industry: Tissue Culture Beef
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details Dr. Mark Post and his team at Maastricht University were perfecting their tissue culture beef product-made entirely from muscle grown in his lab-to give... -
Maple Leaf Foods: Changing the System
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details The Maple Leaf Foods (MLF): Changing the System case explores how a major food processor pivoted its vision and operations in an attempt to become the... -
The Knight Management Center
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details The Dean of the Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB), Bob Joss, must decide whether to make the school's new campus LEED certified. LEED stands... -
Climate Change and the Napa Valley Wine Industry
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Jon-Mark Chappellet, Director of Operations at Clos Du Val Winery in Napa Valley, is developing a 50-year plan. The effects of climate change are forcing... -
What 1,000 CEOs Really Think About Climate Change and Inequality
Corporate social responsibility Digital ArticleThe good, the bad, and the surprising from a new report. -
When Your Business Has Nowhere to Hide
Organizational Development Digital ArticleOnly the Paranoid Survive was the title of Andrew Grove's candid account of the years he headed Intel, leading it from a small maker of computer chips... -
Bank Audi: Leading through Sustainability
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Bank Audi, a leading financial institution, was founded in Lebanon in 1830 and, over the years, had been engaged in various forms of philanthropic, charitable...