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Until now, few people routinely lived into their 90s. Welcome to the first four-generation world, where adults can expect to know their great-grandparents. The last similar shift, to a three-gene...

https://www.strategy-business.com/article/Facing-Up-to-a-Four-Generation-Society?rssid=sustainability&gko=42c04

After centuries of managing its own immense water-related challenges, the Netherlands is learning to export its expertise. There are at least 125 advanced Dutch engineering and architecture busin...

https://www.strategy-business.com/article/Water-Experts-for-the-World?rssid=sustainability&gko=647a2

Citizens and policymakers are asking whether economies can break out of growth-dependent frameworks. Businesses should help find the answer.

https://www.strategy-business.com/blog/Are-We-Outgrowing-Growth?rssid=sustainability&gko=d3cb6

As businesses embrace values in the workplace, they are starting to take stands on controversial issues such as same-sex marriage, immigration, race relations, and environmental policies. But not...

https://www.strategy-business.com/article/When-Cultural-Values-Lead-to-Groupthink-the-Company-Loses?rssid=sustainability&gko=6083b

In a Young Profs interview, IESE professor Pascual Berrone talks to s+b about his research on the effects of corporate greenwashing, and the damage companies cause to their standing in the world ...

https://www.strategy-business.com/article/Getting-Beyond-Greenwashing?rssid=sustainability&gko=c7656

Bringing digital prowess and sustainable practices together should be at the forefront of strategic thinking for any business -- as a way to differentiate itself and gain long-term viability amon...

https://www.strategy-business.com/article/Digital-Technology-and-Sustainability-Positive-Mutual-Reinforcement?rssid=sustainability&gko=625fc

Bringing digital prowess and sustainable practices together should be at the forefront of strategic thinking for any business. For further insights, read "Digital Technology and Sustainability: P...

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The future of agriculture could be small farms, closer to consumers, that use technology to grow food more efficiently.

https://www.strategy-business.com/blog/Why-You-Should-Hope-Your-Next-Tomatos-Grown-Indoors-by-Robots?rssid=sustainability&gko=30043

Employees often take a pay cut to participate in CSR programs, but many do so to gain career skills.

https://www.strategy-business.com/blog/The-Balancing-Act-of-Corporate-Social-Responsibility-Programs?rssid=sustainability&gko=02377

In the face of heightened urgency, some companies are seeking to go "carbon negative" by finding ways to actively pull carbon dioxide from the air and lock it into their products. For manufacture...

https://www.strategy-business.com/article/Manufacturing-Goes-Carbon-Negative?rssid=sustainability&gko=8947e

Innovation and leadership have always been closely linked. Part eight of s+b's "Inside the Mind of the CEO" series is an interview with the chief executive of a multi-industrial producer of intel...

https://www.strategy-business.com/article/Business-Leaders-as-Catalysts-for-Change?rssid=sustainability&gko=346e0

Humanity is moving into a world of abundance: a hybrid capitalist-sharing economy, in which the costs of producing and delivering most goods and services will dwindle to near zero. So says econom...

https://www.strategy-business.com/article/Jeremy-Rifkin-on-How-to-Manage-a-Future-of-Abundance?rssid=sustainability&gko=ecb55

Leaders must sometimes transcend the way their personality is perceived. To accomplish this, they need to think of themselves in terms of the whole person: the intellect, the emotions, the relati...

https://www.strategy-business.com/article/What-the-Body-Tells-Us-about-Leadership?rssid=sustainability&gko=c0eff

The discovery and commercialization of graphene, the first two-dimensional material, which is impossibly thin and incredibly strong, has kicked off a renaissance in nanomaterial research and deve...

https://www.strategy-business.com/article/The-Next-Big-Technology-Could-Be-Nanomaterials?rssid=sustainability&gko=617a5

How to get the strategists and implementers in your company to work together effectively. For more insight, read "10 Principles of Strategy through Execution."

https://www.strategy-business.com/article/A-Guide-to-Strategy-through-Execution?rssid=sustainability&gko=880ef

The circular economy starts with the first meal of the day.

https://www.strategy-business.com/blog/Turning-Breakfast-Waste-into-Food-for-Commerce?rssid=sustainability&gko=a376b

The president of the Rockefeller Foundation discusses the best books for understanding and nurturing organizational resilience.

https://www.strategy-business.com/blog/Judith-Rodins-Required-Reading?rssid=sustainability&gko=a6eed

A leading light of the corporate responsibility movement calls out a reading list for building a sustainable economy.

https://www.strategy-business.com/blog/John-Elkington-Required-Reading?rssid=sustainability&gko=68b42

Many corporations reduced their investments in sustainable initiatives during the recent recession -- but some relatively high performing firms actually increased their long-term commitment to CS...

https://www.strategy-business.com/blog/The-Subtleties-of-CSR-in-Hard-Times?rssid=sustainability&gko=5860f

A new book describes how Israel has relied on technology and smart incentives to turn a water deficit into a liquid surplus. Can California and other arid areas learn the same lessons?

https://www.strategy-business.com/article/00364?rssid=sustainability&gko=35ebe

Use your purchasing power for good.

https://www.strategy-business.com/blog/The-Dawning-of-a-Conscious-Consumer?rssid=sustainability&gko=72f64

Coca-Cola's Derk Hendriksen says his company wants to lead the way in positively affecting communities. The company has initiated the Ekocenter program -- producing a series of off-the-grid, modu...

https://www.strategy-business.com/article/00358?rssid=sustainability&gko=6ac68

"Brand sacrifice" means companies, not consumers, feel the pain.

https://www.strategy-business.com/blog/Can-Brands-Save-the-World?rssid=sustainability&gko=aea68

The eminent -- and controversial -- economist offers a set of cures for the ills of global poverty. It's not clear the medicine works.

https://www.strategy-business.com/article/00338?rssid=sustainability&gko=ad71c

Addressing climate change with a sense of urgency isn't a matter of morality, two economists argue. It's about managing risk.

https://www.strategy-business.com/article/00337?rssid=sustainability&gko=7c074

How to build trust by letting consumers know everything about your enterprise.

https://www.strategy-business.com/blog/Radical-Accountability?rssid=sustainability&gko=c9b11

Bartow Elmore's snarky environmental history of the Coca-Cola Company challenges the conventional view of an iconic brand.

https://www.strategy-business.com/article/15104?rssid=sustainability&gko=4541e

Tomorrow's Bottom Line

https://www.strategy-business.com/article/00292?rssid=sustainability&gko=0912c

John Elkington and Jochen Zeitz's new book proposes how to achieve the triple bottom line of planet, people, and profits.

https://www.strategy-business.com/blog/A-Foxy-Approach-to-Global-Sustainability?rssid=sustainability&gko=627d8