Encouraging interview with Blair Sheppard, dean of Duke Business School, about increasingly mature expectations of future execuitves [their MBAs!] Seems they are looking for broader perspectives, linking business issues to societal and environmental issues, and not thinking the answer is to junk existing institutions but to make them work better. Blair says this needs better integration between schools of Business, Environment and Policy. We are not starting in a good place - though he claims business schools are already ‘interdisciplinary’ [i.e. they have all ...

In Green Is a Strategy, strategy+business makes a strong case that sustainability is becoming, not a nuisance issue to which business will have to react, so much as an opportunity for advantage that needs to be proactively grasped. A bit thin on details, but offers some good big principles. Given the severe environmental problems to which we are already condemned, the faster firms get going with this, the better! Further to my post on green recovery, it’s interesting to ...