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The business case

There is a LOT of academic work on the business case for sustainability. Some people think that being good at sustainability will lead to greater customer loyalty, higher willingness to pay, lower risks, more innovation and so forth. Others aren’t so su...

Adaptation

Adaptation in the context of climate change can mean several different things. Three that I have been thinking about are:1. At global and societal levels adaptation means setting up institutions and infrastructure that help people and ecosystems adjust to...

A speech

On October 11, I was formally invested with the title Steven Grossman Endowed Chair in Sustainable Business. I was invited to give a brief speech, and here is the transcript.--It’s a great honor to be standing before you today. I can state, with certain...

Carbon collaboration

Recently I was involved in a project oriented towards helping small business take climate action. The starting point for the project was our recognition that it is both difficult and inefficient for small business to take meaningful steps. Difficult bec...

Carbon labels everywhere

I’m not a big fan of carbon labels, or other sustainability labels, for that matter. At first glance, they seem very appealing, and in a perfect world they could perhaps be very helpful. But in reality, with the vast amount of information that they attemp...