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(Note: Unbeknownst to me, my colleague Lane Jost and I both produced articles on Wal-Mart this morning. I have decided to publish mine as well because I believe the two compliment each other well and hey, like Coke and Pepsi, there is room for similar products in the market place) Wal-Mart confuses me. It seems [...]
UPDATED — 10:59am CT… Michelle Obama has now officially endorsed Wal-Mart’s plan. Today, Wal-Mart has made yet another strident announcement, this time trumpeting a five-year strategy to increase the volume of healthy foods sold in its stores. The nation’s largest grocery retailer will aim to reduce the levels of sugar, salt and fats in thousands [...]
Back in August I wrote an article wondering if we were Greenwashing our MBAs. Elaine Cohen, whose work inspired the article, wrote an astute response to my post stating, “The real change will come when businesses demand that MBA grads have sustainability knowledge as part of their basic education – it has to be a [...]
As we forge deeper into 2011, the number of CSR reports from fiscal 2009 and 2010 that cross my desk with headlines boasting corporate enterprise carbon footprint reductions in the 5%-12% range is astounding. Here’s a quick sample: Reckitt Benckiser (RB) plc (2010): Reduction of 11% KPMG (2009) : Reduction of 7% While it’s certainly [...]
In the guest post below, Julie Urlaub, Founder and Managing Partner at Taiga Company, discusses how investment recovery contributes to corporate sustainability. A key component of business sustainability is asset disposition, or investment recovery. Investment recovery is the practice of recouping the value of assets no longer needed by a company by identifying and reusing [...]
