Category: Strategy
Mining & Faith: Unexpected Partnerships for Prosperity
By Peter Bryant, Senior Fellow, Kellogg Innovation Network, Kellogg School of Management In 2013, I visited the Vatican and in 2014 the Church of England with over 25 mining CEOs and business leaders. These days were created to be “Days of Refection.” ...
Leadership on the Edge
By Robert Swan, Founder of 2041 Having experienced leadership implementation in some of the world’s most hostile environments, I’ve applied the lessons learned in polar exploration to business management practices. In today’s ever-changing world, an effective leader must embody traits and ...
Moving Beyond the Tip of the Iceberg and into Supply Chain Sustainability
By Steven Swartz, McKinsey & Company For most companies, direct operations represent only the tip of the iceberg in terms of sustainability impacts – at the base of the iceberg are the complex global supply chains that power most large companies ...
CEF Launches New Marketplace to Help Members Reuse Undervalued Resources
By John Bradburn, General Motors and Kevin O’Donnell, NikeAt General Motors and Nike, we operate with the mindset that waste is merely a resource out of place. We work hard to reduce waste by improving material yields, reusing remaining scrap in ...
HP Living Progress Exchange: Coming Together to Solve the World’s Problems
By Gabi Zedlmayer, Vice President and Chief Progress Officer, HPWhat does it look like to create a better future? At HP, it’s a question we ask ourselves every day as we create innovations to address the greatest problems faced by ...
Water and the New Normal: Reflections from Stockholm World Water Week
By William Sarni, Director and Practice Leader, Enterprise Water Strategy, DeloitteThe very successful 2014 Stockholm World Water Week (SWWW) has come to a close. The event broke attendance records with over 3,000 participants from industry, academia, nongovernmental organizations, and governmental ...
How Hospitals Can Heal the Planet
By Kathy Gerwig, VP, Employee Safety, Health and Wellness and Environmental Stewardship Officer, Kaiser PermanenteA healthy and sustainable environment is a necessary foundation for human health. On that most people agree. But there is an interesting paradox in health care: ...
The Business Case for Water Stewardship: A Three-Step Process to Operationalize Effective Water Management Strategies
By Emilio Tenuta, vice president of corporate sustainability, EcolabThe dynamics of the world’s water situation are well understood: fresh water is increasingly scarce; it is diminishing in quality at an unacceptable rate; we do not have enough of it where ...
A Better World, Inc.: How Companies Profit by Solving Global Problems
By Alice Korngold, author, A Better World, Inc.: How Companies Profit by Solving Global Problems…Where Governments CannotSocial, economic, and environmental challenges threatening our world are likely to increase exponentially in the coming decades. In my latest book, A Better World, ...
Business and Human Rights: The End of the Beginning
By Christine Bader, author, The Evolution of a Corporate Idealist: When Girl Meets OilAttention to business’ impacts on and responsibilities for human rights continues to grow, with front page stories like the Rana Plaza factory collapse in Bangladesh, the role of ...