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- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Robert Goodwin
Millennium Development Goals which range from halving extreme poverty to providing universal primary education, they provide sustainable benefits to a developing community for multiple generations, and they have the ability to impart the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Green Day
Erling Lorentzen (MBA 1948) was a prominent figure at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro and for decades led a number of sustainable development initiatives as chairman of Brazil’s giant pulp and paper producer Aracruz Celulose S.A.;... View Details
- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
the need for change puts itself at a distinct disadvantage to one that tracks the Four Rs along with indicators of learning and innovation. The Rise and Consequences of Corporate Sustainability Reporting Authors:Ioannis Ioannou and George... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Should Compete for Your Privacy
at times in the form of subsidies. For example, Amazon provides discounts on its e-reader prices for customers who agree to receive targeted ads from Amazon and third-party sellers on their devices. Higher intensity of competition between... View Details
- 14 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Keeping Your Balance With Customers
Industrial Era, product innovation and operations management predominated. Product innovation ensured the continuous flow of new products that would sustain growth or market share or both. Operations management ensured that costs and... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
the future, but with needs that clamor for solutions right now. The leaders of cities feel the heat, literally and figuratively: “Mayors can’t just talk about goals for the year 2050,” Bloomberg says, citing a date often used for environmental View Details
- Web
Turning a Moment into a Movement: How the Anti-Racism Fund Co-Founders are Fighting Racism and Encouraging Other Companies to Do Their Part - Recruiting
an impact on the world. Then they witnessed a series of heartbreaking events, watching alongside the rest of the world as Ahmaud Arbery, Christian Cooper, George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Tony McDade were targeted in public places for... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Case Study: On the Record
Above: photo by Sarah Frankie Linder Vinyl is back. The once-anachronistic segment of the music industry was on target for its seventh straight year of double-digit growth in 2017, according to a Deloitte Global forecast, selling an... View Details
Keywords: April White
- Profile
Darrin Rahn
Farmers of America. "My brothers and I [Darrin is the middle child of five] wanted to start a business as an FFA project," Darrin explains. "Making and selling hay to local livestock farmers was the original business idea. As the business grew, we began... View Details
Keywords: CPG
- 18 Oct 2016
- Op-Ed
Why Business Should Invest in Community Health
impact. This will allow them to calculate a total population health footprint and publish an annual health impact report, along the lines of today’s sustainability reports. Now that Target has centered its... View Details
- 24 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Busting Six Myths About Customer Loyalty Programs
in the minds of many retailers over whether loyalty programs offer a sustainable and profitable business model. Retailers such as Sainsbury's in the United Kingdom illustrate this hesitation. They were early adopters of loyalty programs... View Details
- 03 Feb 2021
- News
Power Play
a partner with Energy Capital Partners, saw it as the perfect foundation on which to build a dedicated private equity firm. So in 2018, he founded SER Capital Partners, which focuses on sustainable investments, and brought in partners... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 10 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 10
World" approach into its corporate strategy. HEINEKEN had set itself ambitious 2015 and 2020 sustainability targets in six pillar areas around energy/CO2, water, View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- Profile
Janina Motter
“It’s a newer program targeting people like me interested in joining or launching startups and launching technical products. It also provides many opportunities for project-based coursework.” In her first year, Janina has already... View Details
- 28 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Spotlight: Cissy Chen (MBA 2019)
this sector. Part of my responsibility at the fund was to review the ESG ratings of companies in Asia that were potential investment targets of this new strategy. Once I was told who the target company was,... View Details
- 05 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017
with discrete transfers. Structural Transformation: A Competitiveness-based View By: Ketels, Christian H.M. Abstract—Competitiveness research aims to enhance our understanding of the drivers of prosperity differences across locations and of policies that can View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Mapping Your Board’s Effectiveness
it so often does today. What's more, company executives should make fewer, shorter, and more targeted presentations to board members and spend more time engaging them in interactive discussions. For the board to monitor strategy, it first... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan
- 02 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Good Deeds Invite Bad Publicity
robust direct link between CSR and financial performance” It is true that in areas such as environmentally sustainable practices, customers have been willing to pay responsible producers a premium for products; take organic cotton, for... View Details
- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard
Mobil hoped to sustain at its stations would generate higher revenues. Second, by increasing the market share in the targeted segments, a higher quantity of gasoline would be sold and a higher percentage of... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 28 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 28, 2015
by the interaction of partner firms that does not necessarily accrue to any of them. The extent of "ambivalent value" is unclear, but its persistence, despite changing structural market features, promises to help sustain... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel