Case Studies in Sustainability Management and Strategy

Author: Hamschmidt, Jost
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Greenleaf Publishing
Publication Year: 2007

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These cases explore both the opportunities and pitfalls companies and NGOs face in targeting sustainability issues and how their values and core assumptions impact their business strategies. They deal with a myriad of issues including supply chain management, stakeholder dialogue, social entrepreneurship, sustainable marketing, ethics, governance, the business case for sustainability, partnerships, purchasing and climate change...

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Green Power

Author: Ellison, Katherine
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: CNNMoney.com
Publication Year: 2007

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Corporate Culture and Environmental Practice

Author: Howard-Grenville, Jennifer
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Edward Elgar Publishing
Publication Year: 2007

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This innovative book explores from an insider's perspective a company's environmental decisions and actions. Based on close observation at a major semiconductor manufacturer, Jennifer Howard-Grenville details how the company's culture - revealed through its internal practices, decisions, and norms - guided action on environmental issues...

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Aguas del Tunari in Bolivia: The Water War

Author: von der Porten, Suzanne
Product Type: Research Notes / Working Papers
Source:
Publication Year: 2007

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In February and April of 2000, tens of thousands of citizen protesters seized the streets of their home city Cochabamba, Bolivia to protest the privatization of their water and sewer system by Aguas del Tunari, a subsidiary of US-based Bechtel Corporation...

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How to choose between growth and ROIC

Authors: Jiang, Bin; Koller, Timothy
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: McKinsey Quarterly
Publication Year: 2007

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One key to creating value is understanding how to manage the subtle balance between growth and returns on invested capital. Empirical evidence suggests that companies enjoying strong ROIC can afford to let it decline over the short term to pursue growth—and that companies with low returns are better off improving ROIC than emphasizing growth...

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Is Cash Really King in Valuations, or Do Earnings Trump All?

Author: Nissim, Doron
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Columbia Ideas at Work
Publication Year: 2007

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Forecast U.S. earnings are the closest proxy for share price when compared with actual financial statement variables. But do earnings beat forecast cash flows and dividends in an international sample?

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Making the Most of Asset Disposal

Author: Strathmann, Joe
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: GreenerComputing
Publication Year: 2007

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Environmentally responsible IT asset disposal -- now a top priority for millions of businesses and consumers worldwide -- hadn't fully emerged as the global calling we've come to know...

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How One Global Bank Successfully Transformed Itself

Author: Varley, John
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Strategy + Business
Publication Year: 2007

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In 2003, the management of Barclays Bank resolved to put our foot on the accelerator of performance. There were two main reasons. We saw an opportunity to create faster growth in shareholder value. And we thought it was important to develop our capabilities around the world so that, when customers chose a bank in the markets in which we operate, they would think of Barclays first...

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Chinese Light-Bulb Imports Spark EU Controversy

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Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: World Business Council for Sustainable Development
Publication Year: 2007

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European consumers will probably have to wait another year before they see the prices of energy-saving light bulbs fall, following a Commission decision to extend anti-dumping duties on imports from China rather than scrap them immediately...

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Can Rural Finance Take Root in China? About 750 Million People Hope So

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Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Knowledge @ Wharton
Publication Year: 2007

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Until recently, China has not worried about break-even or even money-losing banking projects. Rural finance was considered to have more of a social-welfare, poverty-alleviation mission than a business one...

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