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Tokyo's "Just Do It" Leadership on Climate Change
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleNews from the Asia Times this morning provides a good example of real climate-change and sustainability leadership. It seems that governor of Tokyo, Shintaro... -
2022: A Tumultuous Year in ESG and Sustainability
Global Business Digital ArticleA look back at 10 of the year's most important stories. -
High Gas Prices: A Plus for Employers
Leadership & Managing People Digital Articleby Ellen Ernst Kossek All the talk about pain at the pump misses an important point: High gas prices can work to a company's benefit, if the company uses... -
Sustainability at Work: Our Favorite Reads
Leadership & Managing People ListicleDo you have climate anxiety? -
Leadership in the Age of Climate Change
Leadership & Managing People 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... -
Bring Your Garden to Work
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleIt's the time of year when those of us living and working in the north northern hemisphere wish we could take the office outside, the way indulgent teachers... -
Protecting Your Workforce from Extreme Heat
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleAs heat waves become more common, employers need policies to safeguard their employees and their business. -
Research: The Unintended Consequences of Right-to-Repair Laws
Global Business Digital ArticleA model assessing their potential impact suggests manufacturers might flood the market with cheap goods, raise prices, or both. -
The Drop in Oil Prices Might Be Bad for Business
Organizational Development Digital ArticleIt lets us delay necessary investments. -
Cancun Celebrations of Green Business Achievements
Organizational Development Digital ArticleAt this year's climate summit in Cancun, Mexico, policy negotiators from all over the world have gathered for two weeks to, most likely, agree to nothing... -
Scorched Earth:Â Will Environmental Risks in China Overwhelm Its Opportunities?
Emerging markets Magazine ArticlePollution in China has reached such epic proportions that it threatens the ability of multinational corporations to do business as usual. Here’s a realistic picture of what you can expect to find and how to handle it. -
Your Company Will Need Remote Work as Extreme Weather Gets Worse
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleClimate disasters are only going to become more common - and more destructive. Companies need to prepare now. -
What Companies Can Learn from a Carbon Accounting Pilot in Afghanistan
Mudança Climática Digital ArticleAn E-liability project helped raise climate awareness and showed that small and medium-sized companies can benefit from using this methodology. -
The Uneven Distribution of AI's Environmental Impacts
Global Business Digital ArticleHow companies can responsibly manage the growing water and energy demands of their data centers across the world. -
Case of the Environmental Impasse
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleVermillion Paper Co. saw a proposed eucalyptus plantation in the tropical country of Equitania as an opportunity to do right by the environment after... -
The Sustainability Imperative
Technology & Operations Magazine ArticleExecutives know that how they respond to the sustainability challenge will profoundly affect the competitiveness of their organizations - and perhaps... -
3 Ways to Incorporate Sustainability into Everyday Work
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleIt has to start with leadership. -
Quantify Your Company's Impact on People
Organizational Development Digital ArticleWe need well-informed systems to reverse today's inequalities. -
Innovating by Making the World a Better Place
Maggie Brenneke, director of the Skoll Social Enterprise Program at SustainAbility, claims that when businesses consider their social and environmental... -
The Paradox of Growing as a Values-Driven Company
Business and society Digital ArticleLessons from the B Corp movement about how to offer ethical alternatives at scale — without diluting your mission.
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Starbucks: Creating the ambience and rekindling people's thirst by bringing the brew to the world
Management Case Study11.95View Details The case analysis facilitates deeper understanding, critical thinking and application of concepts pertaining to organizational environment and strategic... -
School Feeding Program in Nigeria (A): Tetra Pak's Business and Development Goal
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details The case documents Tetra Pak's ambitious efforts to collaborate with the governor of Nasarawa State in Nigeria in the setting up of a school feeding program... -
Sunk Costs: The Plan to Dump the Brent Spar (A)
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details This case explores the conflict between Shell Oil and Greenpeace over Shell's plans to sink the aging Brent Spar oil platform in the North Atlantic. It... -
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... -
Innovation @ ENEL: From Monopoly Power to Open Power
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details Enel is an innovative Italian energy utility that is undergoing rapid change. Technically the company has enthusiastically embraced renewable energy under... -
PARKING SPACES FOR SUPER COMPUTER - Confidential Instructions for Rom Rosok, 100 Blue Chip Street Property Manager
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details Two-party, two-issue scoreable negotiation between an office building owner and commercial tenant over the terms of a lease for parking spaces. Super... -
Sunk Costs: The Plan to Dump the Brent Spar (B)
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case. -
Nemus: Can Non-Fungible Tokens Save the Amazon Rainforest?
Management Case Study11.95View Details In March 2022, Nemus, an environmental planning, development, and sustainability consultancy based in Lisbon, Portugal, released a series of non-fungible... -
Apple Inc.
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details The case is set in September 2019 and the protagonist is Tim Cook, the CEO at Apple, Inc. In 2019, Apple had revenues of $260 billion; yet, net revenues... -
A City's Desert: No Apples in the Big Apple? (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene's Physical Activity and Nutrition Program needed to come up with an innovative solution to the... -
Water Crisis in India
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details India had long suffered floods during the monsoons, droughts during the dry seasons, and periodic death causing famines during multi-year droughts. The... -
Coca-Cola FEMSA's Contribution to Peace
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details In 2003, the FEMSA Corporation -a Mexican company- acquired 100% of the shares of the largest franchise of the Coca-Cola system in Latin America (PANAMCO),... -
Climate Governance at Linde plc (A)
Management Case Study11.95View Details In July 2023, the Linde plc board of directors' sustainaibility committee convened in London to review the company's environmental performance, with a... -
Unilever's Lifebuoy in Myanmar: Soap Suds for Social Good?
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details This case has been set in June 2015, ten months after Unilever had re-launched Lifebuoy soap in Myanmar. The brand had performed exceedingly well, particularly... -
San Leon Energy: Hydraulic Fracturing in Poland
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details This case explores how to manage the political risks of using a controversial energy extraction technology in the European Union. San Leon Energy, an... -
Jane's Short & Sweet: Purpose, People, and Profit
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details In 2015, jane's short & sweet, a United States-based for-profit business, regularly dedicated 25 per cent of its revenue to charities supporting its mission... -
Sunk Costs: The Plan to Dump the Brent Spar (D)
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case. -
Competing for Development (B1): The Intermediate Technology Development Group/Practical Action
Global Business Case Study5.00View Details This a role play supplement to Competing for Development (A): Fuel Efficient Stoves for Darfur, product # 908M61. The role plays feature additional background,... -
SingTel: Philanthropic or Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility?
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details In 2014, the vice-president of Group Corporate Social Responsibility at Singtel, a Singapore-based provider of telecommunications products and services,... -
Agricultural Innovation and Sustainability in the Netherlands
Management Case Study8.95View Details This note describes some of the most significant agricultural innovations in the Netherlands, their drivers, environmental performance implications, some...
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Starbucks: Creating the ambience and rekindling people's thirst by bringing the brew to the world
Management Case Study11.95View Details The case analysis facilitates deeper understanding, critical thinking and application of concepts pertaining to organizational environment and strategic... -
School Feeding Program in Nigeria (A): Tetra Pak's Business and Development Goal
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details The case documents Tetra Pak's ambitious efforts to collaborate with the governor of Nasarawa State in Nigeria in the setting up of a school feeding program... -
Sunk Costs: The Plan to Dump the Brent Spar (A)
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details This case explores the conflict between Shell Oil and Greenpeace over Shell's plans to sink the aging Brent Spar oil platform in the North Atlantic. It... -
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... -
Innovation @ ENEL: From Monopoly Power to Open Power
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details Enel is an innovative Italian energy utility that is undergoing rapid change. Technically the company has enthusiastically embraced renewable energy under... -
PARKING SPACES FOR SUPER COMPUTER - Confidential Instructions for Rom Rosok, 100 Blue Chip Street Property Manager
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details Two-party, two-issue scoreable negotiation between an office building owner and commercial tenant over the terms of a lease for parking spaces. Super... -
Sunk Costs: The Plan to Dump the Brent Spar (B)
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case.