CEF Spotlight
Finding your Company’s Essence—and Using it for Growth
By Carol Sanford, author, The Responsible Entrepreneur: Four Game Changing Archetypes for Founders, Leaders and Impact Investors (July 2014).DuPont sold its Fibers and Textiles business, which had been the heart and soul of its business—the operations that made such well-known products ...
Resource Revolution: Uniting Good Business and Sustainability
By Stefan Heck and Matt Rogers, Authors, Resource Revolution: How to Capture the Biggest Business Opportunity in a CenturyThe prophets of doom are wrong. They believe the rapid rise over the next two decades of a new 2.5-billion-person urban middle class—and ...
Making Consumer Choices Easier: Learning from SC Johnson
By Christine Todd Whitman, President, Whitman Strategy GroupAs a former administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, I am often asked what individuals can and should be doing to preserve our natural resources. My response is a reminder that individual actions have ...
Managing Global Water Risks
Interview with Will Sarni, Director and Practice Leader, Enterprise Water Strategy, DeloitteThis interview originally appeared in Ensia magazine here.From Fortune Brainstorm Green to SXSW Eco and beyond, Will Sarni is one of world’s most sought-after speakers on global water and sustainability issues — and with good ...
Bringing Enterprise Computing into the 21st Century: A Management and Sustainability Challenge
By Jonathan Koomey, Author, Cold Cash, Cool Climate: Science-based Advice for Ecological EntrepreneursInformation technology (IT) has been the catalyst for revolutionary change across modern companies, reducing costs, enabling rapid institutional transformation, and generating new products and services. The great irony is that ...
We’re All Guests On This Planet
By Denise Naguib, Vice President, Sustainability and Supplier Diversity Global Operations Services, Marriott InternationalAs our chairman, JW Marriott, Jr. says, “We believe the future of this business is green…because we’re all guests on this planet.”Indeed, the planet is the ultimate host ...
Mindsets and Money: Breaking the Grip of Distorted Economics
By Gil Friend, Chief Sustainability Officer, City of Palo AltoOver the course of my more than 40 years of work on sustainability issues in business, government, and the civic sector, one challenge has remained central, reappearing again and again as a make-or-break ...
Four Strategies for Successful Employee Engagement: Lessons from Caesars CodeGreen
By Gwen Migita, Vice President of Sustainability and Community Affairs, Caesars EntertainmentAt Caesars Entertainment Corporation (CEC), we set out to improve the company’s triple bottom line with our CodeGreen sustainability strategy. Since the inception of CodeGreen six years ago, employees at the property, ...
41 Global Companies Aim to Spur Corporate Action with New Online Platform Linking Nature with Business Benefits
New Natural Capital Business Hub offers a searchable database of case studies and resources to help companies evaluate the business case for action on natural capital. Phoenix, AZ – February 19, 2014 – Unveiled at the 6th Annual GreenBiz Forum, The Natural ...
Sustainability Around the World: Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games
By Neil Hawkins, Corporate Vice President, Sustainability, Dow Chemical; and George Hamilton, Vice President, Olympic Operations, Dow ChemicalThe Olympic Games. Every two years, nations around the world come together to watch their most elite athletes battle it out to prove who ...
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