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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, […] -
Yes, Sustainability Can Be a Strategy
Organizational Development HBR BestsellerNew research confirms that ESG can create competitive advantage. -
Will Videoconferencing Kill Business Class Travel?
Competitive strategy Digital ArticleIn a tight economy, with companies spending much less on IT, the tech giants will take growth wherever they can find it. The Wall Street Journal reported recently that Cisco and HP are in a pitched battle for customers for their high-end teleconferencing systems. According to the report, it’s “one of the few technologies that […] -
Project Leaders Will Make or Break Your Sustainability Goals
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Is Your Company Ready for the Circular Economy?
Economics Digital ArticleBetter managing the planet’s resources doesn’t have to mean you don’t turn a profit. -
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 […] -
China Leads the Clean Economy Race
Sustainable business practices Digital Article[For more, visit Tomorrow’s Smart Grid.] Creating a clean economy will not be easy. It will require sustained, consistent, and large-scale investment across many sectors, including transportation, building systems and appliances, energy generation, and of course the electric grid itself. We will need new, more intelligent software and hardware to manage the new demands on […] -
How Target Is Taking Sustainable Products Mainstream
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How Much Will We Do and When?
Sustainable business practices Digital ArticleThe strategic question about global warming isn’t: are we going to do something about it? All three of the remaining candidates for President call it a real problem and assail the Bush administration for eight long years of idleness; the Congress is flirting with real legislation and the polling indicates its Democratic ranks will be […] -
Power to the Offshore Windmills
Sustainable business practices Digital Article[For more, visit Tomorrow’s Smart Grid.] Americans love to live near the water. More than 80% of them live at the two coasts, on river flood plains or alongside the Great Lakes. So it’s a strange that in the conversation on smart grids and new long-distance transmission lines, the geography of wind appears to trump […] -
Will Your Activism Clash with Your Career?
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Only People Can Make the Smart Grid Smart
Sustainable business practices Digital Article[For more, visit Tomorrow’s Smart Grid.] Futurists expect the smart grid will change how we use electricity. But it depends. The theory is that as consumers receive real-time information about the cost of electricity and their consumption, and utilities introduce dynamic pricing linked to demand, people will respond by reducing their use and shifting it […] -
There's a Leadership Vacuum on Climate Change. Business Should Fill It
Organizational Development Digital ArticleIt's increasingly strange to have to say this, but pollution and global warming are bad for the economy. -
To Prove Your Company Isn’t Greenwashing, Endorse Smart Regulation
Advertising Digital ArticleIt’s the best way to show consumers that you practice what you preach. -
ESG Impact Is Hard to Measure — But It’s Not Impossible
Analytics and data science Digital ArticleThree ways to capture the data that matters. -
The HBR List: Breakthrough Ideas for 2009
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleOur annual survey of ideas and trends that will make an impact on business: Elizabeth Warren and Amelia Tyagi believe consumer credit should be made as... -
We Need Universal ESG Accounting Standards
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleA new initiative, the International Sustainability Standards Board, holds promise. -
Ask Customers to Use Less of Your Product: The Big Heresy
Sustainable business practices Digital ArticleLast week I attended an Executive Sustainability Summit hosted by Xerox, Waste Management (WM), and Arizona State University. The short conference brought together public and private sector managers working on environmental and social issues. Xerox asked me to attend and give my thoughts on what I heard and saw*. What really struck me is that […] -
Where’s the Green in Green Business?
Sustainable business practices Magazine ArticleEnvironmentalists argue that sustainable business makes economic sense. If only it were that simple.
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Tesla, Inc.
Management Case Study11.95View Details The case is set in 2023. The protagonist is Elon Musk, CEO and Technoking of Tesla, Inc. The vertically-integrated clean technology company designs, develops,... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
The International Committee of The Red Cross: Development of an Ethical Procurement Policy
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details The Asia sourcing manager at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), a humanitarian organization working in conflict areas, had contributed... -
Career at a Crossroad: Akhil Patel
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View 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 his fiancée... -
EnerNOC: Turning Energy Savings into Sales
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details EnerNOC - a clean energy company -- sells energy-monitoring, management and efficiency services to utility customers, who agree to reduce consumption... -
Child Rights and You: From Tears to Smiles
Management Case Study11.95View Details Child Rights and You (CRY) was a non-governmental organization (NGO) started in 1979 in India. The organization experienced pan-Indian growth and later... -
Terrible Beauty: Reckoning with Climate Complicity and Rediscovering Our Soul
Management Book32.00View Details A firsthand, trench-view story of the failure of the modern environmental movement--and an inspiring prescription for change. Something's gone badly awry... -
Alibaba Cainiao's Smart Green Logistics Strategy: Good for the Earth, Good for the Business
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details In November 2020, after the world's largest online shopping festival, also known as Singles' Day or "11.11 Global Shopping Festival" in China ended on... -
Indigo Agriculture: Harnessing Nature
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details Indigo Agriculture used a digital-enabled research and development (R&D) process to launch its initial product, microbial coatings for agricultural seeds,... -
Better Ventures: Backing Entrepreneurs Building a Better World
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details This case centers on BV as it seeks to raise $20 million for its first standalone fund between 2014 and 2016. Wes Selke and Rick Moss, the two BV co-founders,... -
Han Solar and the Green Supply Chain
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details This case study focuses on a sustainability corporate initiative that aims to strengthen a photovoltaic business and to understand consumer preferences.... -
Harvard Business Review Project Management Handbook Toolkit
Strategy & Execution Book150.00View Details We're now living in the project economy. The number of projects initiated in all sectors has skyrocketed, and project management skills have become essential... -
Coppersea: Growing a Craft Distillery
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details Coppersea, a craft distillery in the Hudson Valley of New York, had developed a range of whiskies using "heritage distilling" techniques (a term they... -
Stakeholder Management and the Endangered Wildlife Trust
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details The Endangered Wildlife Trust (EWT) had been in existence for 35 years and up until recently had grown organically by taking on new projects as and when... -
Drinkotec: Changing a company, changing a life (C): Dream big or go home
Management Case Study5.00View Details It is now four years later, and Drinkotec is scaling up fast. They've had to make some tough decisions in order to focus, have the best people and build... -
Bulb 2015: Foundation
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details In late August 2015, Amit Gudka and Hayden Wood, co-founders of Bulb, Ltd (Bulb), were ready to offer affordable renewable energy to the United Kingdom's... -
Levi Strauss & Co.: Driving Adoption of Green Chemistry
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details This case examines the challenges and opportunities faced by Levi Strauss & Co. (LS&Co.) as it attempts to help establish a cross-industry sustainability... -
Dabba Chetty Shop: Strengthening a Niche Market or Expanding Internationally
Management Case Study11.95View Details Dabba Chetty Shop was a small unique retail shop in Chennai, India that had been in operation for four generations. For more than a century, the shop...
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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. -
Tesla, Inc.
Management Case Study11.95View Details The case is set in 2023. The protagonist is Elon Musk, CEO and Technoking of Tesla, Inc. The vertically-integrated clean technology company designs, develops,... -
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, […] -
Yes, Sustainability Can Be a Strategy
Organizational Development HBR BestsellerNew research confirms that ESG can create competitive advantage. -
Will Videoconferencing Kill Business Class Travel?
Competitive strategy Digital ArticleIn a tight economy, with companies spending much less on IT, the tech giants will take growth wherever they can find it. The Wall Street Journal reported recently that Cisco and HP are in a pitched battle for customers for their high-end teleconferencing systems. According to the report, it’s “one of the few technologies that […] - SPONSORED CONTENT FROM MICROSOFT
Steps Toward Building More Sustainable Organizations
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Turning Sustainability From Challenge to Opportunity
Sustainable business practices WebinarBusiness history is punctuated by seismic shifts that alter the competitive landscape. These megatrends create inescapable threats and game-changing opportunities. They require businesses to adapt and innovate or be swept aside. Sustainability expert and business strategist David Lubin recently joined HBR for a webinar that outlined how companies are gaining an “eco-premium” in navigating the […] -
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... -
Project Leaders Will Make or Break Your Sustainability Goals
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleHitting big targets starts with getting the details right. -
Is Your Company Ready for the Circular Economy?
Economics Digital ArticleBetter managing the planet’s resources doesn’t have to mean you don’t turn a profit.
