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What Businesses Need to Know About Sustainable Development Goals

Harvard Business Review

According to estimates from McKinsey, consumers in these markets could be worth $30 trillion by 2025 — a significant step up from the 2010 value of $12 trillion. But awareness of the challenges is the first step toward managing them. A public commitment to such an effort creates an incentive to follow through.

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The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business Review

These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management. Sustainable businesses are redefining the corporate ecosystem by designing models that create value for all stakeholders, including employees, shareholders, supply chains, civil society, and the planet. ” Improving risk management.

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The Future Economy Project: Q&A with Marne Levine

Harvard Business Review

When I joined Facebook in 2010, it was already well established that sustainability was central to the way that we operated. Before 2010, most of the energy powering these data centers was coming from coal. Chairman and CEO, the Dow Chemical Company , and Executive Chairman, DowDuPont. Andrew Liveris.

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Crisis Management Failures in Japan's Reactors and the BP Spill

Harvard Business Review

But, it also describes what happened after the April 20, 2010 explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. Of course, such plans will have to adapt to actual events, but without a robust plan, "seat of the pants" crisis management won't work. Yet, neither BP and the U.S. Public or Private Responsibility?

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Top 10 Green Business Stories of 2011

Harvard Business Review

Ok, this one is cheating a bit, but on a fundamental level, the top themes in green business haven't actually changed too much ( see the 2010 list ). The greening of the supply chain. The best analysis of the resource scarcity mega-trend came from asset manager Jeremy Grantham. business continuity").

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80% of Companies Don’t Know If Their Products Contain Conflict Minerals

Harvard Business Review

But since outsourcing has become an increasingly common approach to cutting costs, many producers now rely heavily on globally dispersed supply chains. Eligible companies had more than three years to investigate their supply chains; the first disclosure reports were due in May 2014. We wanted to find out.