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  • 2015
  • Chapter

Reliable Sustainability Ratings: The Influence of Business Models on Information Intermediaries

By: Robert G. Eccles, Jock Herron and George Serafeim
A new generation of corporate reporting—integrated reporting—is emerging that will help investors and other key stakeholders such as employees, customers, suppliers, and NGOs develop a deeper and more comprehensive appreciation of corporate performance than what is... View Details
Keywords: Sustainability; Business Models; Business Model
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  • February 2020 (Revised February 2022)
  • Case

Sustainable Product Management at Solvay

By: George Serafeim, Vincent Dessain and Mette Fuglsang Hjortshoej
In November 2019, Ilham Kadri, CEO of Solvay, a Belgian specialty chemicals and advanced materials group, with annual revenues of more than €10 billion in 2018, announced the group’s mid-term strategy, eight months after she took the helm as Solvay’s 11th CEO. The case... View Details
Keywords: Sustainability; Sustainable Business And Innovation; Sustainability Management; Sustainable Development; Management Accounting; Innovation; Carbon Emissions; Sustainability Reporting; Sustainability Targets; Target-setting; Product; Management; Transformation; Growth and Development Strategy; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Chemical Industry; Europe; Belgium
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    HBX: Sustainable Business Strategy

    Climate change. Income inequality. Institutional collapse. Sustainable Business Strategy is a flexible, 3 week, highly-interactive online course designed to provide participants with the tools they need to build thriving businesses while... View Details

    • 07 Jun 2009
    • News

    Business Sustainability

    • March 2020
    • Module Note

    Scaling and Sustaining Platform Businesses

    By: Feng Zhu
    Keywords: Platform Businesses; Platform Disruption; Platforms; Digital Platforms; Technology Industry
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    • Research Summary

    Sustainability and Integrated Reporting

    A sustainable strategy for a company is one that enables it to create value for shareholders over the long term while contributing to a sustainable society. In doing so, it must balance the needs of different types of providers of financial capital (e.g.,... View Details

    Keywords: Sustainability; Sustainability Reporting
    • 9 AM – 9 AM EDT, 26 Sep 2018
    • HBS Online

    HBX Sustainable Business Strategy

    Learn how to become a purpose-centered business leader while examining the critical role that businesses play in solving the world's big problems, including climate change, income inequality, and social injustice. Program Dates: September 26, 2018 - October 17, 2018. View Details
    • 2013
    • Working Paper

    Historical Origins of Environmental Sustainability in the German Chemical Industry, 1950s-1980s

    By: Geoffrey Jones and Christina Lubinski
    This working paper examines the growth of corporate environmentalism in the West German chemical industry between the 1950s and the 1980s. German business has been regarded as pioneering corporate environmentalism after World War II. In contrast, this study reveals... View Details
    Keywords: Sustainability; Green Business; Pollution; Environmental Sustainability; Business History; Chemical Industry; Germany; United States
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    • 9 AM – 10 AM EDT, 26 Jun 2019
    • HBS Online

    HBS Online Sustainable Business Strategy

    Learn how to become a purpose-centered business leader while examining the critical role that businesses play in solving the world's big problems, including climate change, income inequality, and social injustice. Program Dates: June 26, 2019 - July 17, 2019 View Details
    • 9 AM – 10 AM EST, 06 Feb 2019
    • HBS Online

    HBS Online Sustainable Business Strategy

    Learn how to become a purpose-centered business leader while examining the critical role that businesses play in solving the world's big problems, including climate change, income inequality, and social injustice. Program Dates: February 6, 2019 - February 27, 2019 View Details
    • 21 Feb 2012
    • News

    Sustainability Is Good Business

    business and environmentalists to collaborate to develop sustainable enterprises. He described, for example, how Nature Conservancy scientists are working with Rio Tinto, a global mining behemoth, to craft... View Details
    Keywords: Roger Thompson; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services; Utilities
    • 07 Jul 2003
    • Research & Ideas

    4+2 = Sustained Business Success

    success. A company that consistently follows this formula has better than a 90 percent chance of sustaining superior business performance. The 160 companies in our study—which we call the Evergreen... View Details
    Keywords: by Nitin Nohria, William Joyce & Bruce Roberson
    • 2019
    • Editorial

    Yes, Sustainability Can Be a Strategy

    By: Ioannis Ioannou and George Serafeim
    Keywords: Sustainability; Sustainability Management; Sustainability Standards; Strategy; Business Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Corporate Performance; CSR; Environmental Sustainability
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    • Spring 2018
    • Article

    The Next Phase of Business Sustainability

    By: Andrew J. Hoffman
    The era of corporations integrating sustainable practices is being surpassed by a new age of corporations actively transforming the market to make it more sustainable. View Details
    Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Trends; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Corporate Disclosure
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    • 9 AM – 10 AM EDT, 04 Sep 2019
    • HBS Online

    HBS Online Sustainable Business Strategy

    Learn how to become a purpose-centered business leader while examining the critical role that businesses play in solving the world's big problems, including climate change, income inequality, and social injustice. Program Dates: September 4, 2019 - September 25, 2019 View Details
    • 9 AM – 10 AM EDT, 17 Apr 2019
    • HBS Online

    HBS Online Sustainable Business Strategy

    Learn how to become a purpose-centered business leader while examining the critical role that businesses play in solving the world's big problems, including climate change, income inequality, and social injustice. Program Dates: April 17, 2019 - May 8, 2019 View Details
    • 9 AM – 10 AM EST, 13 Nov 2019
    • HBS Online

    HBS Online Sustainable Business Strategy

    Learn how to become a purpose-centered business leader while examining the critical role that businesses play in solving the world's big problems, including climate change, income inequality, and social injustice. Program Dates: November 13, 2019 - December 4, 2019 View Details
    • 01 Jun 2012
    • News

    The Business Case for Sustainability

      Making the Business Case for Environmental Sustainability

      Can a business case be made for acting sustainably? This is a difficult question to answer precisely, largely because there is no generally accepted definition of the term “sustainability”. Is it acting sustainably to protect the human rights of the firm’s workforce?... View Details
      • 2014
      • Working Paper

      Making the Business Case for Environmental Sustainability

      By: Rebecca Henderson
      Can a business case be made for acting sustainably? This is a difficult question to answer precisely, largely because there is no generally accepted definition of the term "sustainability". Is it acting sustainably to protect the human rights of the firm's workforce?... View Details
      Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Decision Making; Environmental Sustainability
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