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10 Sustainable Business Stories That Shaped 2015

Harvard Business Review

The year 2015 was a pivotal time when humanity turned more decisively toward building a thriving and sustainable world. Here are eight cross-cutting themes and stories from 2015 that are driving us toward a sustainable world (and two that are doing the opposite): 1. The vision of an all-renewable energy system comes into focus.

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The Big Picture of Business – Collaborations, Partnering and Joint-Venturing… Priority for Business.

Strategy Driven

Here are some examples of Joint-Venturing: Producers of energy create an independent drilling or marketing entity. with case studies of actually collaborations. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Those who don't help to develop the business on the front end are just vendors and subcontractors.

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Luxury Brands Can No Longer Ignore Sustainability

Harvard Business Review

Diana Verde Nieto, the founder of Positive Luxury and main author of the study, makes a compelling case that sustainability and social responsibility are no longer nice-to-have for luxury brands — they are now requirements. The report has some additional good case studies in the watch, leather, diamond, and eco-tourism realms.

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Happy Workplaces Can Also Be Candid Workplaces

Harvard Business Review

For a case study of how this can work in practice, consider Eileen Fisher, whose 800-person retail company generated $300 million in 2015. It’s amazing to see the ideas and energy that surface by telling people the truth. She attributes part of her success to positive communication.

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Research: Self-Disruption Can Hurt the Companies That Need It the Most

Harvard Business Review

electric utility sector, in which the existing model for energy generation, which has prevailed for a century, may now be giving way to a new one. We studied the sector for three years and came up with some very interesting findings about the “adjustment costs” that companies incur when they disrupt themselves.

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The Connection Between Employee Trust and Financial Performance

Harvard Business Review

Was this a deliberate attempt to imprison employees and stifle their energy? Furthermore, a 2015 study by Interaction Associates shows that high-trust companies “ are more than 2½ times more likely to be high performing revenue organizations ” than low-trust companies. .”