Business & The Environment
What’s Your Strategy for Supply Chain Disclosure?
Today’s supply chains are required to be lean, agile, sustainable, and — increasingly — transparent.
Corporate Social Responsibility
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Boards & Corporate Governance
Environmental and Human Rights Assume a New Urgency for Boards
Global economic leaders have made it clear: Companies cannot neglect environmental and human rights responsibilities.
Olivier Jaeggi
Why Sustainability-Oriented Innovation Is Valuable in Every Context
SOI allows companies to reap the benefits of products and services that create social and environmental good.
Jason Jay, Sergio Gonzalez, and Marine Gerard
Corporate Social Responsibility
Finishing School for Social Intrapreneurs
The Aspen Institute’s Business and Society Program develops business leaders for a sustainable society.
Gregory Unruh
Corporate Social Responsibility
What Companies Can Learn From Social Scalers
Small-scale social entrepreneurs lead the way in addressing social issues. Can companies follow their lead?
Urs Jäger and Vijay Sathe
Developing Strategy
The Leaders’ Choice
New business executives face a choice: What kind of companies do they want to lead?
Thomas A. Kochan
Corporate Social Responsibility
Why Boards Must Look Beyond Shareholders
Shareholder primacy is an ideology, not law, and boards have the option to consider other audiences.
Robert G. Eccles and Tim Youmans
Organizational Structure
The 2015 Richard Beckhard Memorial Prize
This year’s winning article is “Combining Purpose With Profits,” by Julian Birkinshaw, Nicolai J. Foss, and Siegwart Lindenberg.
MIT Sloan Management Review
Corporate Social Responsibility
What Does a Corporate Responsibility Manager Do?
CSR pioneer Alberto Andreu Pinillos believes that CSR managers have three distinct responsibilities: foresight, nurturing, and evangelism.
Gregory Unruh
Corporate Social Responsibility
Why Sustainability Ratings Matter
Trustworthy, transparent ratings of companies’ sustainability performance are becoming increasingly important in the global economy.
Allen L. White
Corporate Social Responsibility
To Red-Card Corruption, You Have to Know What a Foul Is
The crisis over corruption at FIFA offers useful pointers for managers.
Gregory Unruh
Corporate Social Responsibility
Why Corporate Social Responsibility Isn’t a Piece of Cake
Responsible corporate behavior isn’t simply “doing well by doing good.” Six structural changes need to be considered.
José Carlos Marques and Henry Mintzberg
Corporate Social Responsibility
MasterCard Pins Down the Cash Economy
When social support is delivered in cash, corruption and theft are rife. MasterCard is helping governments find a more secure alternative.
Gregory Unruh
Sustainability Metrics
Joining Forces: Collaboration and Leadership for Sustainability
The 2014 Sustainability Report by MIT Sloan Management Review, BCG and the United Nations Global Compact highlights new global collaborations.
David Kiron, Nina Kruschwitz, Knut Haanaes, Martin Reeves, Sonja-Katrin Fuisz-Kehrbach, Georg Kell
Corporate Social Responsibility
On Companies’ Holiday Wish List: Board Involvement in Sustainability Efforts
New research underscores the gap between the ideal and the reality of board involvement on sustainability.
Nina Kruschwitz
Business & The Environment
Why It Pays to Become a Rule Maker
Businesses have the potential to be rule makers as well as players in establishing environmental regulations.
Andrew King
Corporate Social Responsibility
The Sustainability Insurgency: Missives from the Front Lines, Part 2
Emma Stewart, Autodesk’s head of sustainability, describes how social intelligence helps CSR advocates promote a culture of sustainability.
Gregory Unruh
Corporate Social Responsibility
The Crucial — and Underappreciated — Role of HR in Sustainability
HR departments are usually overlooked in developing sustainability programs — yet their input is crucial for success.
Edward E. Lawler III and Susan A. Mohrman
Corporate Social Responsibility
The Sustainability Insurgency: Missives from the Front Lines, Part 1
Autodesk’s Emma Stewart says that social intelligence helps promote CSR and a culture of sustainability.
Gregory Unruh
Business & The Environment
Asia Pulp & Paper and Greenpeace: Building New Directions, Together
An unexpected partnership emerged when Asia Pulp negotiated with Greenpeace.