Looking Toward 2011 with Trepidation or Hope?

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I feel good about the sustainability and leadership work that I was able to do this year: organizing a Sustainable Cities conference and a Value-based Sustainability conference  for the Executive Council, co-authoring the HBR case study, "Should the C-Suite Have a Green Seat?" with Rupert Davis of … [Read more...]

Should Sustainability Have a Seat in the C-Suite?

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My latest case study for Harvard Business Review is up and open for comments. It zeroes in on a dilemma focused by many companies these days: should a Chief Sustainability Officer by hired? Sustainability gets a lot of attention these days but companies wonder whether it is best addressed by the … [Read more...]

Latest Case for HBR

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How do you decide how much of your company's resources to bring forth in a disaster? This is the issue addressed in my latest case for Harvard Business Review. It will also appear in the March 2010 issue along with expert commentary. … [Read more...]

Blue Sky Paradox

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A few years back I wrote a case study for Harvard Business Review, "They Bought In. Now They Want to Bail Out," in which I introduced a concept I called the "Blue Sky Paradox." It is an idea I came up after having experienced several large-scale technology implementations. In essence, the paradox … [Read more...]