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More on sustainability and strategy

Two solid pieces on strategy implications from sustainability. The Business of Sustainability report from BCG reviews the impact the issue is having on companies and how it is affecting their strategic management. Most now see it as far more than just the latest fad and potentially a big factor in their future success…

Kim Warren

Better Place, GE, Nike, Rio Tinto, sloan management review, Strategy, sustainability, wal-mart

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Great piece on sustainability and business

Great video  with Adam Werbach, author of Strategy for Sustainability: A Business Manifesto, shares an adaptation from his book and talks with the McKinsey Quarterly about trading in green fashion for more enduring business solutions. Practial and commercial.

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Adam Werbach, Mckinsey Quarterly, Strategy, sustainability

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Business case for sustainability

Michael Olson of Pleiades Technology Futures just pointed me to what looks some solid materials on how to make the business case for investing in sustainability from Bob Willard at Sustainability Advantage. This contrasts strongly with much of the well-meaning but mostly futile aspirations of many sustainability advocates. Bob’s approach is…

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Bob Willard, strategic management, sustainability, Sustainability Advantage

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Sustainability and strategy

Good to see a serious management journal – MIT’s Sloan Management Review – regularly featuring items on this issue. John Sterman’s ‘Sober optimist’s guide to sustainability‘ and an interview with Rebecca Henderson are both good.

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Andrew Winston, Daniel Esty, Green to Gold, John Sterman, MIT, Rebecca Henderson, sloan management review, strategic management, sustainability, water resources

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Sustainability MBA

Following a couple of posts on sustainability, it’s interesting to find at least one dedicated MBA in the topic, at Presidio School of Management [who also offer shorter executive classes]. I don’t have any information on its quality, so would be interested to hear feedback on this or any other such…

Kim Warren

executive classes, MBA, Presidio School of Management, strategic management, Strategy, sustainability

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Strategy and sustainability

Had a couple of interesting contacts on this last week. Seems senior executives in general certainly ‘want to do what’s right’, but face two difficulties. First, it’s not as obvious as it seems to know what the right thing is to do [think of the debates about exploiting cheap labour…

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