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2023.
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English
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Moving the needle on meeting major sustainability goals — like cutting carbon emissions — requires setting objectives that are ambitious enough to reflect an organization’s vision and yet sufficiently realistic about business requirements so that early wins can be achieved and momentum can be built. The authors walk readers through a five-step process for identifying and setting sustainability goals, and for managing the tension between urgent...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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For scalable climate action, regulation must be partnered with industrial strategy to incentivize demand for sustainable finance. The authors describe how Japan is working to do this with a balanced mix of incentives and regulation that is in marked contrast to the approaches of the United States (mostly incentives) and the European Union (mostly regulation).
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Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"This book uses Ecolab's century-long sustainability journey to distill key lessons that executives and leaders in any business can learn to make their organizations more economically, environmentally, and socially sustainable. These lessons reveal a 'sustainability tool-kit,' a set of actions that leaders can take over time to embed sustainable business practices into the DNA of the organization. The book builds on two models that frame the Ecolab...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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Despite widespread public commitments to integrate sustainability into business models, less than a third of U.S. employers engage in practices that support that objective, recent research shows. Many employees see a lack of commitment from management and short-term focus as key challenges. The authors share six practices observed at organizations that have made good progress at embedding sustainability into the business.
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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R&D leaders and CTOs are well placed to instigate changes that will ensure that future products and services have a lower carbon footprint, but they must have a clear mandate to do so. Reducing the negative impacts of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions may mean using alternative raw materials, reimagining product designs, and implementing more climate-friendly technologies. The authors assert that every R&D conversation should now take GHG into account....
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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A Bentley University and Gallup survey on businesses’ role in making a positive impact on society and the environment found that despite some differences across demographics, overall consumers feel that companies should take action to minimize their environmental impact — but that large companies in particular aren’t doing enough. The author suggests several actions companies can take to improve their environmental sustainability performance....
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Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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"A guidebook for leaders to create value from sustainability and organizational performance. In The Adventure of Sustainable Performance, the authors share their many years of experience serving clients and driving performance as the world transitions to a net zero carbon future. A future that uses resources sustainably and that seeks social justice. Through storytelling and interviews from many international leaders in business and sustainability,...
9) Common Sense
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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The United States is supposed to offer economic opportunity to everyone. So why are so many people left out in the cold? Globalization and technological change have ravaged the workforce. Hostile immigration policies actually keep Americans from getting jobs. Our education system is deeply unequal, denying opportunity to millions right from the start. Still, we can't seem to break from the status quo. In Common Sense, Joel Greenblatt offers an investor's...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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Español
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¿Qué tienen en común la marca hotelera de lujo Soneva y el distribuidor líder británico Tesco, o el gigante de gran consumo Unilever y la marca de ropa Patagonia? Pues que demuestran que ser una empresa con conciencia y ganar dinero son objetivos compatibles. En Empresas con conciencia, Nicholas Ind y Oriol Iglesias proporcionan un modelo de gestión a través del cual las empresas pueden transformarse y desarrollar un negocio con conciencia...
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Pub. Date
2023
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English
Description
Social impact communication is quickly become a mandatory skill for leaders of modern businesses and nonprofits, at all levels of an organization. Yet using strategy, language and influence to advance game-changing societal breakthroughs isn't something most people learn in college. This book provides a pathway for empathy, clarity and persuasive communication to advance the social impact work that can help people, their families and society. Too...
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English
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Every mob boss needs a hitman. Somebody who will do the dirty job on the mob boss' behalf by threatening, assaulting and if needed killing those, the mob boss wants away.In this shocking world super-exclusive book, we present one of the most famous and active hitmen inside Microsoft. Yes, you read that right! Microsoft does have such people on its rolls because it employs such tactics inside the company to ensure the heads of the company stay powerful...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
Description
As mandatory sustainability reporting gains ground, a focus on what investors want provides a useful lens for corporate planning. The transition away from fossil fuels to renewable energy is creating new market conditions where sustainability builds resilience and increases the capacity for business growth. New reporting will reveal how leaders see the future, how they are planning to meet it, and what value they expect to be able to create for their...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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Strategic corporate philanthropy — voluntary giving that builds on a company’s core competencies to both effect social impact and improve its competitive position — can be difficult for leaders to navigate. Based on their research, the authors have developed a framework to help business leaders determine whether a philanthropic project is a good fit for their organization. By asking the right questions, leaders can best decide what, how, and...
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Français
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"Erreurs judiciaires et injustice sociale" constitue une analyse de notre système judiciaire actuel, capable du meilleur comme du pire. La justice, rendue par les hommes pour les hommes, en est le symbole. Comment pouvons-nous accuser une personne sans preuves formelles tout en laissant en liberté un délinquant dont les éléments de preuve sont accablants ? Cette ambiguïté alimente l'injustice sociale déjà présente dans notre société.
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16) Sustainability, big data, and corporate social responsibility: evidence from the tourism industry
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"This book aims to provide theoretical and empirical frameworks and highlights the challenges and solutions with using Big Data for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Sustainability in the field of digital transformation and tourism. Sustainability, Big Data, and Corporate Social Responsibility: Evidence from the Tourism Industry offers a theoretical and empirical framework in the field of digital transformation and applies it to the tourism...
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English
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This book has a very grand ambition. That of putting forth a fundamentally new economic theory-the symbiotic economy-that could bring about the coexistence of humans and nature.John miller offers a synthesis of numerous methodologies and fields of study that have gained attention recently, including permaculture, the circular economy, the economy of functionality, peer-to-peer lending, the social and solidarity economy, and complementary currencies....
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Mike McCormick fingers not only to the current National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, known for his role in the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan and the failure to deter Putin from invading Ukraine. But what if Jake Sullivan "failed" on purpose to ensure new huge contracts and commissions on the military help to Ukraine?McCormick claims that many other "Obama officials" and maybe Obama himself is connected to the corruption schemes. Obama certainly...
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When catharsis of dysfunctional, malignant culture is not done, even good actions fail to have an impact and only end up take one closer to impending doom. In today's world, knowledge is the ultimate power. To protect yourself as an investor, it is critical to understand the inside view of the company from someone who knows how Microsoft's present board and management think because this influences each and every action they take. For this reason,...
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Understanding the interrelationship of business, society and government is vital to working at any level in an organization of any size. This text develops strategic management skills using an applied ethics approach, primarily through a case study analysis pedagogy, to develop and implement ethical strategies in today's high-tech global community. The authors crystallize the complex array of issues that business leaders, managers, and employees face...
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