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Why Unilever, Patagonia and Puma Lead the Pack, say Sustainability Leaders 07 May 2013 – Joel Makower Companies continue to rank low among global institutions when it comes to sustainability leadership, though a few companies — mostly the usual suspects — continue to rise above the ot...
Another year has passed and the results of the latest GlobeScan / SustainAbility opinion survey on leadership look startlingly similar: Unilever on top. That’s not the whole story of course – Patagonia continues its impressive rise in the eyes of our sustainability experts, Puma has e...
Another year has passed and the results of the latest GlobeScan / SustainAbility opinion survey on leadership look startlingly similar: Unilever on top. That’s not the whole story of course – Patagonia continues its impressive rise in the eyes of our sustainability experts, Puma has e...
Rethink the language of sustainability . I have always found the Brundtland definition of sustainable development – to meet the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs – to be elegant in its simplicity. It has serv...
One reason embedding sustainability is critical is because business performance is predominantly delivered “out there” in the line of the business, not in the CEO’s office. Managers — who are faced with inevitable trade-offs day-in day-out — are frequently exposed to perceived short-t...
Growth, mad men and economists: Why we need an intergenerational and interconnected economy 30 Sep 2011 – Kyra Choucroun Copyright (c) Kyra Choucroun Despite years of thinking about the traditional model of economic growth, it wasn’t until I drove through rural Ghana that it truly hit...
We interviewed a wide range of corporate leaders for this research, and many acknowledged that it is incumbent upon them to find ways to be part of a holistic solution. But they told us that the path forward is not clear. In response, Appetite for Change seeks to energize the debate b...
It's Time to Grow out of Endless Growth 07 Jul 2011 – Kyra Choucroun A particular remark has been ringing in my ears for two weeks: “We have an economy where we steal from the future, sell it in the present, and call it GDP .” Those are the words of Paul , who, in my opinion, has come...