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"How-To" For Directors
Author: McGookin, Steve
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Forbes.com
Publication Year: 2007
With the increasingly high public profile accorded to corporate governance issues recently, it is becoming more important for players on all sides to understand the rules of the game in this rapidly changing environment...
Businesses Embracing Green Procurement, Survey Finds
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Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: GreenBiz.com
Publication Year: 2007
According to a new survey from EyeForProcurement, more than 50 percent of companies have policies on greening their supply chain, and companies are nearly unanimous in their belief that green supply chains will only continue growing...
Customer Versus Supplier Expectations: Bringing in Value Beyond Just the Widgets
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Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Knowledge @ Wharton
Publication Year: 2007
In a highly competitive world where the customer expects to be king, why are so many firms unhappy with the products they purchase, sales staff that over-promise and don't deliver, and less than optimal after-sales service?
Video: Eco Biz- Green MBA
Author: Samuelson, Judith
Product Type: Multimedia; Interviews
Source: Sundance Channel
Publication Year: 2007
Executive Director Judith Samuelson was featured on the Sundance Channel's EcoBiz series, which highlights profiles of people making big ecological advances within the business world. In this short video, Judith discusses her work to green the MBA and bring today's business world in line with an environmentally challenged world.
Corporations and the 21st Century: How Do Today's Companies Need to Change to Meet Tomorrow's Needs?
Authors: Waddock, Sandra; White, Allen; Goyder, Mark; Nelson, Jane; Lacy, Peter; Post, James
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Academy of Management
Publication Year: 2007
When corporations were first developed on a large scale in the late 19th century, their charters designated that they were only to remain incorporated as long as they served what the US Constitution termed the general welfare. Thus, at least in theory, corporations would remain incorporated only as long as they continued to serve the interests of society, as well as providing goods and services that resulted in profits for their owners...
AMD on Climate Goal Successes, Risks
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Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Corporate Responsibility Officer
Publication Year: 2007
AMD discusses how they surpassed recent climate protection goals to decrease greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent as well as their new, loftier goals...
Communities, Corporations, and the Difference Between Consent and Consult
Author: Baue, Bill
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles; Web Sites
Source: Corporate Responsibility Officer
Publication Year: 2007
A World Resources Institute report promotes free, prior, informed consent from communities affected by major projects; an International Finance Corporation report advocates consultation...
Ge to Introduce Credit Card That Lets Consumers Offset Their Carbon Footprints
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Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Greenwire
Publication Year: 2007
General Electric Co. will introduce the GE Money Earth Rewards Platinum today, a credit card that allows users to earmark the 1 percent cash rebate they receive on purchases for projects that offset greenhouse gas emissions. It is the first card of its kind available in the United States and is part of the company's plan to have $20 billion in green sales by 2010...
Is G.E. Too Big for Its Own Good?
Author: Schwartz, Nelson
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: The New York Times
Publication Year: 2007
EVEN by the standards of a company that builds everything from light bulbs to power plants and straddles markets as varied as prime-time TV and commercial finance, General Electric's mammoth project along the Hudson River north of Albany is staggering. The company plans to lay down more than 28,000 feet of rail and 267,000 square yards of plastic beside the river's edge — all to haul nearly 400,000 tons of sediment from the bottom of the Hudson beginning in 2009, seven years and $500 million after G.E. agreed to undertake the job...
Five Steps to Better Family Negotiations
Authors: Davis, John A.; Malhotra, Deepak
Product Type: Research Notes / Working Papers
Source: Harvard Working Knowledge
Publication Year: 2007
Family relationships are complicated, even more so when your uncle, mother, or daughter is your business partner. Harvard Business School's John A. Davis and Deepak Malhotra outline 5 ways to analyze and improve dealmaking and dispute resolution while protecting family ties. As they write, family negotiations are difficult yet also contain built-in advantages...
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