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Designing Buildings that Are Both Well-Ventilated and Green
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Whole Foods Needs a Holistic Approach on Climate Change
Sustainable business practices Digital ArticleWhy would a new Ceres report give low scores to Whole Foods, one of the nation’s largest purchasers of renewable energy, for the way it is responding to the challenge of climate change? Precisely for the word that Whole Foods uses to describe itself: “whole.” Many of the company’s actions on climate change are laudable, […] -
Life's Work: An Interview with Rick Steves
Sales & Marketing Magazine ArticleRick Steves developed a deep love for travel when he was a teenager and soon realized that he could fashion a career out of teaching others how to plan... -
Creating Value in an Economic Crisis
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In Defense of Degrowth
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Leadership in the Age of Climate Change
Leadership Digital Article(Editor’s note: This post is part of a six-week blog series on how leadership might look in the future. The conversations generated by these posts will help shape the agenda of a symposium on the topic in June 2010, hosted by HBS’s Nitin Nohria, Rakesh Khurana, and Scott Snook.) Earlier this year, at the Economist […] -
How Target Is Taking Sustainable Products Mainstream
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How One Chinese EV Company Made Battery Swapping Work
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Will Your Activism Clash with Your Career?
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There's a Leadership Vacuum on Climate Change. Business Should Fill It
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To Prove Your Company Isn’t Greenwashing, Endorse Smart Regulation
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2022: A Tumultuous Year in ESG and Sustainability
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The One Thing Every Business Dies Without
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Research: Firms with Diverse Boards Achieve Higher ESG Ratings
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Pittsburgh's Transformation Is a Model for Clean Energy Innovation
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The 3 Stages of a Country Embracing Renewable Energy
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Virgin Atlantic Tested 3 Ways to Change Employee Behavior
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3 Ways to Put Your Corporate Purpose into Action
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Business Tapped Out of the Climate Fight. Here’s How to Get Back In.
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Method: Entrepreneurial Innovation, Health, Environment, and Sustainable Business Design
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details With Method standing at number seven on Inc. magazine's list of the 500 fastest-growing companies in 2006, cofounder Adam Lowry is searching for a biodegradable... -
Gray to Green Transition - The Sustainability Journey of Dalmia Cement
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details The primary objective of this case is to introduce the concepts of sustainability and its operationalization in practice. To achieve this objective, the... -
Nestle's Creating Shared Value Strategy
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details This case considers Nestlé's creating shared value (CSV) strategy, which focused on the three categories of nutrition, water, and rural development. In... -
APA Technologies (A): Just When We Were Hitting Our Stride
Management Case Study5.00View Details APA Technologies, a startup in the trucking industry, faced a significant challenge with its innovative product, the Tyro - an automatic tire inflation... -
BRADFORD DEVELOPMENT - Confidential Information for the Mayor's Representative
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details Bradford, an old New England industrial city, is experiencing an economic boom. The city has recently adopted a 'linkage agreement' policy, requiring... -
From Kyoto to Copenhagen to Cancun to Durban to Doha: Successes and Failures in International Climate Negotiations
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details In 1992, the United Nations (UN) Convention on Climate Change urged UN members to reduce their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in order to limit global... -
Advertising Council Earth Share Campaign: Strategy, Execution, and Final Campaign
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details In the several years preceding 1992, there had been a dramatic rise in the public's concern for environmental issues. Yet the Roper Organization reported... -
Governance and Sustainability at Nike (B)
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details Two members of Nike's executive team must decide what sustainability targets to propose to Nike's CEO and to the corporate responsibility committee of... -
CF Industries' New Strategy: Turning Business Pressures into Fuel for Sustainable Growth
Management Case Study11.95View Details This case follows CF Industries, a major fertilizer manufacturing company, its CEO Tony Will, and his leadership team in preparing for an annual strategy... -
Reciclare: Rethinking the Future
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Drinkotec: Changing a company, changing a life (A): Daring to change
Management Case Study11.95View Details Franck-Erik Flegbo and Cyril Le Terrien were already successful executives in a major multinational when they decided that it was time to dream, and to... -
Jiuzhai Valley National Park: Data-Driven Economic Growth and Ecological Preservation
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details Since 2000, China's Jiuzhai Valley National Park (Jiuzhai Valley) had been experiencing a sharp increase in the volume of tourists it received. The park... -
Woolf Farming and Processing
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Woolf Farming Company, a privately owned family farming business in California's Central Valley, found its business threatened by a lack of water, brought... -
KOKO Networks: Bridging Energy Transition and Affordability with Carbon Financing
Management Case Study11.95View Details The problem was massive: two million hectares of African forests were lost annually to charcoal production for cooking, an area equivalent to 13 times... -
Rolls-Royce in Singapore: Becoming a Real Partner in the Group's Global Network
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details This relatively short case describes the development of Rolls-Royce's (RR) Seletar plant in Singapore, and in particular how the plant moved very quickly... -
Business and Sustainable Development Goals
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) follow and expand on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). While the MDGs were focused on poverty mitigation... -
Competing for Development (B5): USAID
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details This a role play supplement to Competing for Development (A): Fuel Efficient Stoves for Darfur, product # 908M61. The role plays feature additional background,... -
FIJI Water: Carbon Negative?
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details Seeking to go beyond global best practices in reducing environmental impacts, FIJI Water, a premium artesian bottled water company in the United States,... -
Patagonia: Driving Sustainable Innovation by Embracing Tensions
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details This case study examines the tensions that arise when Patagonia simultaneously pursues sustainability and quality objectives embedded within its mission... -
Maple Leaf Foods (B): Employees
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details Supplement to case W20831
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Designing Buildings that Are Both Well-Ventilated and Green
Global Business Digital ArticleExtra ventilation often means using more energy - but it doesn't have to. -
Method: Entrepreneurial Innovation, Health, Environment, and Sustainable Business Design
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details With Method standing at number seven on Inc. magazine's list of the 500 fastest-growing companies in 2006, cofounder Adam Lowry is searching for a biodegradable... -
Gray to Green Transition - The Sustainability Journey of Dalmia Cement
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details The primary objective of this case is to introduce the concepts of sustainability and its operationalization in practice. To achieve this objective, the... -
Nestle's Creating Shared Value Strategy
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details This case considers Nestlé's creating shared value (CSV) strategy, which focused on the three categories of nutrition, water, and rural development. In... -
APA Technologies (A): Just When We Were Hitting Our Stride
Management Case Study5.00View Details APA Technologies, a startup in the trucking industry, faced a significant challenge with its innovative product, the Tyro - an automatic tire inflation... -
BRADFORD DEVELOPMENT - Confidential Information for the Mayor's Representative
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details Bradford, an old New England industrial city, is experiencing an economic boom. The city has recently adopted a 'linkage agreement' policy, requiring... -
Whole Foods Needs a Holistic Approach on Climate Change
Sustainable business practices Digital ArticleWhy would a new Ceres report give low scores to Whole Foods, one of the nation’s largest purchasers of renewable energy, for the way it is responding to the challenge of climate change? Precisely for the word that Whole Foods uses to describe itself: “whole.” Many of the company’s actions on climate change are laudable, […] -
From Kyoto to Copenhagen to Cancun to Durban to Doha: Successes and Failures in International Climate Negotiations
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details In 1992, the United Nations (UN) Convention on Climate Change urged UN members to reduce their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in order to limit global... -
Advertising Council Earth Share Campaign: Strategy, Execution, and Final Campaign
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details In the several years preceding 1992, there had been a dramatic rise in the public's concern for environmental issues. Yet the Roper Organization reported... -
Governance and Sustainability at Nike (B)
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details Two members of Nike's executive team must decide what sustainability targets to propose to Nike's CEO and to the corporate responsibility committee of...