Sustainability in Mergers & Acquisitions

Green trends and sustainable practices are the talk of everyone in business–well, almost everyone until now. Deloitte reports that companies involved in Mergers & Acquisitions haven’t been paying much attention to them. Read their report, “How Green Is the Deal? The Growing Role of Sustainability in M&A”. From the press release:

The [...]

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Businessweek’s MBA Issue

This week’s issue of Businessweek is its annual focus on MBA Schools, and it has a fascinating article called “The Millennials Invade the B-Schools.” The opening paragraph sounds like it could be one of our students:
Sara Hochman, 27, has always been interested in environmental issues, so it wasn’t much of a surprise that her first [...]

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Green Jobs Report

The United Nations, International Labour Organization, and Cornell University’s ILR school have collaborated on “Green Jobs: Toward Sustainable Work in a Low-Carbon World”, which was released today. It’s billed as “the first comprehensive study of the ‘green economy’ and its impact on the work world” and features some interesting findings, as well as [...]

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Do Firms Respond to Social Responsibility Rankings?

“How Firms Respond to Being Rated”, an HBS working paper, investigates whether companies respond when being ranked according to their corporate environmental policies and actions. In their preliminary findings, companies responded to a low ranking by improving their performance. From the abstract:
While many independent rating systems are designed primarily to help buyers overcome [...]

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A Greener China

Two young men in China, one an American Fullbright scholar and the other a Chinese national, have begun a fascinating video blog called China’s Green Beat, covering environmentalism in China.  Their documentary-like YouTube videos cover topics such as solar hot-water heaters, wind power, and transportation.  I’d highly suggest watching at least one of these videos, [...]

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Leadership & the Environment

Maybe Kermit the Frog was right–that sometimes, it isn’t easy being green.  But with the steady increase of journals and magazines that come across my desk, it looks like the green movement is taking hold and mainstream culture has begun to embrace it.  This week, Newsweek magazine highlighted the green movement in their special section [...]

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LEED Certification for Academic Buildings

The Chronicle of Higher Education has an informative article in its most recent issue titled “Cost and Red Tape Hamper Colleges’ Efforts to Go Green”.  While at first blush it may seem wholly negative in its coverage, the article has information about the future of LEED Certification as well as academia’s current perspectives on the [...]

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Wired Magazine’s 2008 Business Trends

Wired has been running a series of posts on business trends of 2008.  The article linked below is about how companies that are going green have to balance the financial concerns of their investors with their environmental products (Toyota is highlighted).  See Wired’s other 2008 trends on the right-hand column.
Wired 2008 Business Trends

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Boston-areas Businesses Greening Via Branding

See the Boston Business Journal article below about the growing number of Boston-area businesses jumping on the “green” bandwagon by naming their companies appropriately.
Boston Business Journal article

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