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How to Measure a Company's Real Impact
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What 1,000 CEOs Really Think About Climate Change and Inequality
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When Your Business Has Nowhere to Hide
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Aerial Photos Tell a Story About Which Cities Are Embracing Clean Energy
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Wal-Mart Exposes the De-Value Chain
Organizational Development Digital ArticleWal-Mart's announcement of its new sustainability index marks the dawning of the age of ecological transparency in the marketplace. This is not just idle... -
The More Climate Skeptics There Are, the Fewer Climate Entrepreneurs
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Why Has the EV Market Stalled?
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Managers, What’s Your Plan For Climate Change?
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"We Need People to Lean into the Future"
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleFor years, Walmart's unrivaled customer research capabilities helped it dominate retailing. Then along came the internet, and Walmart suddenly found itself... -
It's Hard to Be Good
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleExcellence in community engagement, labor relations, environmental protection, corporate governance, and supply chain accountability isn't easy to achieve.... -
The Greening of Petrobras
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleOver the past eight years Brazilian energy giant Petrobras has transformed itself from a notorious environmental offender into a global leader in sustainability.... -
What If All U.S. Coal Workers Were Retrained to Work in Solar?
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Accounting for Carbon Offsets
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Get Lean on Energy Costs, Not People
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Getting a Clearer View of Your Company’s Carbon Footprint
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How Bold Corporate Climate Change Goals Deteriorate Over Time
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Don't Tweak Your Supply Chain-Rethink It End to End
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What Would the Green New Deal Mean for Businesses?
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Pittsburgh's Transformation Is a Model for Clean Energy Innovation
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To Create a Greener Future, the West Can’t Ignore China
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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... -
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... -
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... -
Sunk Costs: The Plan to Dump the Brent Spar
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details Faced with the need to dispose of an offshore oil storage installation, the Royal Dutch Shell Corporation develops what it believes is a straightforward... -
Honest Tea: Sell Up or Sell Out?
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Are "wide-scale distribution" and "sustainability" mutually exclusive? This case explores this question through the examples of Honest Tea, one of the... -
Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Inc.
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details A company with a strong commitment toward corporate social responsibility since its founding days, Green Mountain faced an ethical decision point in 2007... -
Block 16: Indigenous Peoples' Perspective
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details Supplements Block 16: Conoco's Green Oil Strategy (A). Provides the indigenous people's perspective on Conoco's Ecuadorian strategy. Designed to be distributed... -
Co-Operators: Catalyzing the Insurance Industry for Sustainability
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Tom Ewart had been recently promoted to associate vice-president (VP) of Sustainability at The Co-operators Group Limited (Co-operators), a Canadian financial... -
Bay State Milling
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Apple Computer, 2006
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Apple has reaped the benefits of its innovative music player, the iPod. However, its PC and server business continue to hold small market share relative... -
Race and Rise Against the Tide: Sustainable Development for Singapore
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details This case highlights the multifaceted challenges of sustainability and survivability face by Singapore. Being a Small Island Developing State (SIDS),... -
World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Nearly all environmental organizations have a similar aim: to stop the degradation of the natural environment. However, the strategies which environmental... -
Unilever's Fair & Lovely In India: Fairness Matters
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details In July 2020, Hindustan Unilever Limited, the Indian subsidiary of global fast-moving consumer goods company Unilever plc, renamed its Fair & Lovely skin-lightening... -
Omar Selim: Building a Values-Based Asset Management Firm (A)
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details The sustainable investing market was a recent phenomenon in the first decade of the 21st century. However, an increasing number of investors began to... -
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,... -
Financing Change, Changing Finance: Should Triodos Invest in Tesla?
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details In 2020, Triodos Investment Management had approximately EUR 4.9 billion in assets under its management (impact investment). Triodos motto was "Financing...
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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...