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The Benefits of Hiring Your Best Customers

Harvard Business Review

I’m talking about the superconsumers who are inside your organization, working at every level: the fashionista who works in the mail room at the headquarters of an apparel company, or the finance manager who works for a pork brand and who eats three pounds of bacon in any given week.

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The 10 Most Important Sustainable Business Stories from 2014

Harvard Business Review

The utility and energy businesses are changing fundamentally (well, some of them are). Distributed generation (meaning solar panels on my roof) is a direct threat to the business models of the large power plants that utilities know best. Financing the clean economy. It’s hard out there if you’re a utility.