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Luxury Brands Can No Longer Ignore Sustainability

Harvard Business Review

If I asked you to picture the consumer luxury market, you might imagine jewels, sports cars, watches, premium drinks, high-end shoes and apparel, and so on. Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo have produced movies and started organizations to tackle climate change and promote renewable energy. Now all the big brands are jumping in.

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10 Sustainable Business Stories That Shaped 2015

Harvard Business Review

That said, with 187 countries pledging collective action to cut carbon emissions, the deal will have vast repercussions for business , particularly as governments put into place policies to remake our energy, transportation, and building systems. The vision of an all-renewable energy system comes into focus. In the U.S.,

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New York’s Fashion Industry Reveals a New Truth About Economic Clusters

Harvard Business Review

The week before Fashion Week in New York, now underway, is perhaps the busiest in the city’s apparel industry. Interviews, case studies and ethnographies tell us proximity matters to certain industries. They make modifications to dresses in real time under enormous deadline pressures.