While the political leadership of a number of countries including the US and Brazil appear to be going the wrong direction in terms of environmental protection, Industry is going ahead. Thousands of companies have adopted the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) standards for reporting their environmental performance and going far beyond what is required to comply […]
Sustainability projects 2019
This year, second year MBA students chose to research some of the hottest topics in sustainability including food waste and air pollution in the mega cities of Asia.
Going beyond “do no harm”
Patagonia and Interface have announced new mission statements which go beyond sustainability to actively taking part in reversing negative environmental impacts echoing the ideas of Gunter Pauli who introduced the idea of the Blue Economy in 2010.
Students and Sustainability (2017)
For IESE Professors, the Christmass holidays are time for family, friends, gifts and most of all grading. Typically many of us will spend a signifiant portion of the holidays in our home office correcting papers, exams, and whatever else we ask the students to do. This year, my students in Strategy & Sustainability, a course […]
Cities Leading the Way
As the political situation in the United States goes from bad to worse and the Paris climate accord hangs in the balance, there is a ray of hope from some of the world’s most important cities including Madrid, Paris and Mexico D.F.
