Category: CEF Spotlight
The Role of Business in the Anthropocene
By Andrew J. Hoffman, Holcim (US) Professor of Sustainable Enterprise at the University of Michigan Scientists have proposed that we have entered a new geologic epoch; we have left the Holocene and entered the Anthropocene – the Age of Humans. This shift ...
Reflections from Mashpi Forest, Ecuador | 2018
Last month, ten outstanding leaders from CEF member companies — chosen from a highly competitive field of applicants — attended the CEF Sustainability Leadership Development Program, "Meeting Sustainability Challenges with Transformational Leadership,” led by Rob Bernard, former Chief Environmental Strategist ...
Meet the Winners of CEF’s 2018 Sustainability Leadership Development Program
Ten outstanding leaders from CEF member companies have been chosen from a highly competitive field of applicants from around the world to attend the CEF Sustainability Leadership Development Program, "Meeting Sustainability Challenges with Transformational Leadership,” led by Rob Bernard, former ...
2018 C.K. Prahalad Awards for Global Business Sustainability Leadership Honors Apple’s Lisa Jackson and the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD)
CEF presented the 2018 C.K. Prahalad Awards in two categories: sustainability business leadership by an individual to Lisa Jackson, Vice President of Environment, Policy and Social Initiatives at Apple; and collaborative business leadership by the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial ...
Reflections from Mashpi Forest, Ecuador
Last month, nine outstanding leaders from CEF member companies — chosen from a highly competitive field of applicants — attended the CEF Sustainability Leadership Development Program, "Meeting Sustainability Challenges with Transformational Leadership,” led by Jon Foley, CEF Advisory Board Member and ...
Advancing Multi-Disciplinary Research with Real World Impact
Image credit: Tayloright Editor's note: This piece was originally published by GreenBiz. Coauthored by Dr. Neil C. Hawkins, Chief Sustainability Officer and Corporate Vice President of Environment, Health and Safety for The Dow Chemical Company, and Dr. Andrew Hoffman, Holcim (US) Professor ...
Meet the Winners of CEF’s 2017 Sustainability Leadership Development Challenge
Nine outstanding leaders from CEF member companies have been chosen from a highly competitive field of applicants from around the world to attend the CEF Sustainability Leadership Development Program, "Meeting Sustainability Challenges with Transformational Leadership,” led by Jon Foley, CEF ...
Meet the Winners of the 2017 C.K. Prahalad Award for Global Business Sustainability Leadership
CEF honored three winners at their 10th Anniversary Leadership Retreat, for exemplifying the fundamental connection between sustainability, innovation and long-term business success in a globalizing world. CEF presented the 2017 C.K. Prahalad Awards in two categories, with honors for sustainability leadership ...
A Letter from CEF Founder, MR Rangaswami to our Members
A decade ago, CEF co-founder P.J. Simmons and I set out to answer a simple question: Could we do something meaningful to help accelerate business innovation and problem solving around the greatest sustainability challenges of our time? As big believers ...
Cities, States, and Business: Our True Climate Leaders
(Editor's note: This article was first published on Medium. You can also track Andrew's ongoing and growing list of non-national groups in the U.S. that remain committed to Paris-level carbon reductions here.) By Andrew Winston, Author and Founder of Winston Eco-Strategies A couple of ...