Everything’s getting faster these days you’ve heard it before. Two mega-trends in particular are merging: rapidly accelerating technological change and rapidly evolving environmental issues and
[My column last week on Harvard Business Online] In a tight economy, with companies spending much less on IT, the tech giants will take growth
[My new column on Harvard Business Online] We’re in the midst of the worst decline in auto sales history — yet Toyota can’t make the
[From my column on Harvard Business Online] At a recent executive education program on sustainability, I spoke about the many tactical ways to reduce environmental
[This post appears on Harvardbusiness.org in my new weekly column/blog…] I recently went to the Fortune Brainstorm Green conference in California — a who’s who
Can a plane fly with no jet fuel? Ridiculous, right? But the aviation industry is starting to ask itself this very question. In early 2008,
It’s always fun to predict what’s going to happen. The risk of being spectacularly wrong is very high, but that’s what makes the exercise so
Sometimes I think the Wall Street Journal editors are phoning it in. In a piece titled, “The Environmental Motor Company: Making Detroit a subsidiary of
As we all know, energy prices have skyrocketed. Organizations of all kinds are trying new ways of doing business to cut costs. Some ideas, like Wal-Mart putting doors on refrigerated cases and cutting energy use 70% in that aisle, are head-slappingly obvious. Even seemingly wacky ideas can seem downright wise once you run the numbers.
I don’t mean to pile onto a disaster in the making, but the demise of the “Big Three” automakers is hard to turn away from
‘Is the World Better Off Because Your Company Is In It?’: Examining Corporate Climate Responsibility
