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Sustainability
PLUNDERING THE PLANET AND A NEW ETHICS OF NATURE
...The debate over climate change and stubbornly high commodity prices during a recession in many developed economies have reignited the debate about whether economic growth is desirable or even feasible. Into this argument steps Paul Collier, an Oxford University economist of a particular variety. ...
09 June 2010
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Corporate social responsibility
REPORTING ON SOCIAL FACTORS IMPROVES STRATEGY – HARVARD PROFESSOR
And it may be true. The idea that reporting on financial and non-financial matters is a good thing has been around a long time. Almost 20 years have gone since balanced scorecards emerged as the way to rescue accounting from the "irrelevance" that Robert Kaplan and Thomas Johnson described. Kaplan w...
05 June 2010
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Innovation
TOO CLEVER BY HALF
...How do we deal with clever people? They are notoriously difficult to manage. The creative types are particularly difficult. Even worse are the clever ones, the ones who are always one step ahead of their managers, the ones that disrupt meetings with astute but annoying observations that drive us ...
04 April 2010
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Strategy in practice
INSIDE THE STRATEGY OVEN – PICKING A TEXT
...Q. Why are there so many books on strategy? ...
A. Because it is a subject we know so little about.
...There is an element of truth in this old joke. Strategy is both amorphous and important. Unlike most other subjects in business and management, it has no agreed beginning and certainly no end...
04 March 2010
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Climate
DISAGREEING ABOUT THE CLIMATE
...The science concerning climate change is clear, both sides of the argument agree. What they don't agree about is what that clarity means. Each side considers the matter settled, and their points of view unsettle each attempt to make public policy. We've been here before. With the Obama administra...
01 July 2009
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Sustainability
SUSTAINABLE ENERGY BY THE NUMBERS
...Climate change news is all around us, from the collapse of an ice bridge in Antarctica to the possibility that the North Pole will be covered by free-flowing water this summer. Scepticism continues in some quarters about the science of it, to be sure, and even the best forecasts are riddled with ...
03 April 2009
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Corporate social responsibility
BRINGING CSR INTO THE MAINSTREAM OF BUSINESS EDUCATION
...We've heard this before, of course. Business schools need to pay more attention to the social responsibilities of the corporations their graduates will serve. If you look at the curriculum of one-year MBA programmes, like the one that runs at Insead, the French member of the world's elite busines...
06 February 2009
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Strategy in practice
MORE, BETTER, FASTER
...The consultancies around the world have been falling over each other trying to be faster about getting books and papers published on how companies can become more nimble, agile, resilient or some other adjective about coping with change. With a lot of change around, all those traits will no doubt...
10 October 2008
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Strategic marketing
MOMENTUM – HOW TO ACHIEVE IT
...Inertia has a bad reputation, because we've forgotten the definition. Inertia is the tendency of a thing to continue doing what it has been doing. That might be "nothing" in some organisations where "nothing" has been the order of the day for some time. But where things are buzzing, inertia ought...
06 September 2008
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Sustainability
THE HARD WORK OF 'MAKING SUSTAINABILITY WORK'
...It's one thing to discuss theories of climate change and theories of corporate governance that might lead boards to consider climate change. It's another to put into place the ...measurement and control systems... that would help a company enact a policy of sustainability the board had already se...
05 April 2008
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