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Harvard Business Review » Sustainable Business Practices
5d ago
Corporate structure and culture often derail companies' best intentions. Here's how to overcome these common pitfalls ..read more
Harvard Business Review » Sustainable Business Practices
5d ago
Most companies know that they need to be greening their offerings-if not to gain advantage, then simply to keep up. In this article the authors offer ..read more
Harvard Business Review » Sustainable Business Practices
2w ago
According to conversations with 25 directors ..read more
Harvard Business Review » Sustainable Business Practices
2w ago
Editor’s note: This post is one in an occasional series on Vijay Govindarajan’s and Christian Sarkar’s idea to create a scalable housing solution for the world’s poor. Each post will examine the challenge from a different perspective, including design, technology, urban planning and more. Today, Bob Freling examines the energy challenge. The $300 House: The ..read more
Harvard Business Review » Sustainable Business Practices
2w ago
Last year we heard a chorus of “water is the new oil,” including a memorable BusinessWeek cover depicting oil baron T. Boone Pickens knee-deep in H20. This year the cry is “water is the new carbon” in response to a heightened awareness that resources such as water are more critical and valuable to a company’s ..read more
Harvard Business Review » Sustainable Business Practices
2w ago
It’s always fun to predict what’s going to happen. The risk of being spectacularly wrong is very high, but that’s what makes the exercise so entertaining. ‘Tis the season for dwelling, quickly, on what we’ve learned this year — de-leveraging is really painful and when gas prices are high, people want smaller cars — and ..read more
Harvard Business Review » Sustainable Business Practices
2w ago
What companies can learn from successful recycling efforts ..read more
Harvard Business Review » Sustainable Business Practices
2w ago
When the business community supports an idea, change can happen fast. HBR’s annual ideas collection, compiled in cooperation with the World Economic Forum, offers 10 fresh solutions we believe would make the world better. Ranging from productivity boosting to nation building, from health care to hacking, any of the ideas presented in the following pages ..read more
Harvard Business Review » Sustainable Business Practices
3w ago
Changes in tools, teams, regulations, and markets are putting sustainability in the hands of the finance department ..read more
Harvard Business Review » Sustainable Business Practices
3w ago
In this era of globalization, countries find themselves increasingly competing with each other for a share of trade, investment, and tourism. Country brands provide an opportunity for creativity and differentiation: Spain, India and New Zealand, for example, all successfully built brands that greatly boosted local tourism. Moving forward, country brands — just like corporate brands ..read more