Sustainability

  • 6 Courses | 3h 13m 57s
  • 12 Books | 49h 17m
  • 11 Audiobooks | 40h 19m 17s
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Sustaining the ability of natural systems to continue to provide the natural resources is becoming more important than ever. Sustainability is a term that has grown in popularity and has become a catchphrase for green business practices that has been incorporated into many corporate strategies. See how companies achieve sustainability in their operations.

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The Effects of Environmental Change on Business

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The Effects of Environmental Change on Business
As the planet's environment changes, so do its effects on the business world. Environmental changes impact business practices. From natural resources to supply chains, to logistics, to energy sources, to customer behaviors and demographics, businesses must adapt or be left behind. Further, climate change requires business adopt sustainable practices in order to remain economically viable and environmentally responsible. In this course, you'll learn about how the changing environment impacts businesses, economically, environmentally, and socially. You'll learn about local regulations and global agreements that affect how businesses may operate, and the clean tech and steps toward sustainability that companies can take to create sustainable business practices. Materials in this course are based upon content provided in partnership with MIT Sloan Management Review.
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Weighing Risks and Opportunities of Implementing Sustainability Initiatives
As the planet's environment changes, so do its effects on the business world. Environmental changes impact business practices. From natural resources to supply chains, to logistics, to energy sources, to customer behaviors and demographics, businesses must adapt or be left behind. Further, climate change requires businesses to adopt sustainable practices in order to remain economically viable and environmentally responsible. In this course, you will learn about the organizational risk companies face if they don't embrace sustainability, some common reasons why organizations resist such a move, potential business opportunities presented by sustainable practices, and the business benefits of adapting sustainable business practices. Materials in this course are based upon content provided in partnership with MIT Sloan Management Review.
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Building a Strategic Commitment to Sustainability
In today's business world, sustainability is a strategic necessity. The pressures on companies to be more socially, environmentally and economically sustainable are mounting on many fronts. Consumers and shareholders expect more than lip service - they want demonstrated commitment. In this course, you'll learn about ways to identify areas where you can implement sustainable business practices, and some key lessons that can help you integrate sustainability into your company's business strategy. Finally, you'll learn about some concepts that may help you discover other ways you can move your company into higher levels of sustainability by considering some larger systems approaches. Materials in this course are based upon content provided in partnership with MIT Sloan Management Review.
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BOOKS INCLUDED

BOOK SUMMARY

The Lean Strategy: Using Lean to Create Competitive Advantage, Unleash Innovation, and Deliver Sustainable Growth
In The Lean Strategy, the authors combine their rich experience with Lean to help you explore novel ways to think about business problems and find innovative solutions. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
book Duration 11m book Authors By Daniel Jones, Jacques Chaize, Michael Balle, Orest Fiume

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Becoming a Sustainable Organization: A Project and Portfolio Management Approach
Laying out a framework to improve sustainability integrations including case studies, lessons learned, best practices, and tools and templates to facilitate transforming into a sustainable organization, this book explains how to engage both internal and external stakeholders in order to reframe strategy to drive a sustainability journey.
book Duration 7h 41m book Authors By Kristina Kohl

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Green Giants: How Smart Companies Turn Sustainability into Billion-Dollar Businesses
Examining nine companies that are merging social responsibility with wild profitability, this book reveals the six factors responsible for their success, and serves as a blueprint for sustainable success that anyone can follow.
book Duration 3h 31m book Authors By E. Freya Williams

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Practical Sustainability Strategies: How to Gain a Competitive Advantage
Based on the authors' many years of research and hands-on experience, this book provides tested and proven practical strategies that make it possible for organizations to develop, maintain, or extend their competitive advantage without causing harm to the environment and society.
book Duration 5h 16m book Authors By George P. Nassos, Nikos Avlonas

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The Pursuit of Sustainability: Creating Business Value through Strategic Leadership, Holistic Perspectives, and Exceptional Performance
For strategic leaders, professionals, and practitioners, this book provides insights, guidance, and methods for developing and implementing sustainable solutions and holistic management systems without prescribing a generalized model that supposedly would fit every situation.
book Duration 7h 55m book Authors By David L. Rainey, Robert J. Araujo

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Green Logistics: Improving the Environmental Sustainability of Logistics, 3rd edition
Examining ways to achieve a more sustainable balance between economic, environmental, and social objectives, this book aims to provide a broad overview of technical, managerial, economic and policy aspects of green logistics.
book Duration 8h 56m book Authors By Alan McKinnon, Anthony Whiteing (eds), Maja Piecyk, Michael Browne

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Making Sustainability Work: Best Practices in Managing and Measuring Corporate Social, Environmental, and Economic Impacts, 2nd Edition
Including best practices from dozens of companies in Europe, Asia, North America, South America, Australia, and Africa, this book is the ultimate how-to guide to implementing and measuring the effectiveness of sustainability initiatives.
book Duration 6h 4m book Authors By Adriana Rejc Buhovac, Marc J. Epstein

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The Sustainable MBA: A Business Guide to Sustainability, Second Edition
Based on interviews with experts in business, international organizations, NGOs and universities from around the world, this book provides the knowledge and tools to help you to turn sustainability talk into action for the benefit of your bottom line and society as a whole.
book Duration 6h 26m book Authors By Giselle Weybrecht

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The Sustainability Mindset: Using the Matrix Map to Make Strategic Decisions
Filled with compelling examples of how The Matrix Map helps nonprofits with strategic decision-making, this book provides an easy-to-follow process complete with tools and templates to help organizations visualize their business model and engage in strategic inquiry.
book Duration 2h 58m book Authors By Jeanne Bell, Steve Zimmerman

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MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Sustainability Progress Is Stalled at Most Companies
Less than one-third of U.S. employees surveyed reported that their organizations engage in practices that embed sustainability goals in business models and employee roles.
book Duration 5m book Authors By CB Bhattacharya, Rob Jekielek

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Invention: A Life
In Invention: A Life, James Dyson shares his vision for a world that's dedicated to sustainability and innovation in all areas, including science, engineering, farming, and healthcare. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
book Duration 7m book Authors By James Dyson

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Outlast: How ESG Can Benefit Your Business
In Outlast, Mukund Rajan and Rajeev Kumar explore the nature and history of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) policies in business enterprises. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
book Duration 7m book Authors By Mukund Rajan, Rajeev Kumar
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AUDIOBOOKS INCLUDED

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The Responsible Business: Reimagining Sustainability and Success
The Responsible Business lays out the operational principles for conducting a sustainable business in a responsible way, and provides a coherent framework for applying those principles systemically. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
audiobook Duration 10m 54s audiobook Authors By Carol Sanford

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The Lean Strategy: Using Lean to Create Competitive Advantage, Unleash Innovation, and Deliver Sustainable Growth
In The Lean Strategy, the authors combine their rich experience with Lean to help you explore novel ways to think about business problems and find innovative solutions. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
audiobook Duration 20m audiobook Authors By Daniel Jones, Jacques Chaize, Michael Balle, Orest Fiume

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The Power of Sustainable Thinking: How to Create a Positive Future for the Climate, the Planet, Your Organization and Your Life
The Power of Sustainable Thinking challenges us all at a deeply personal level to make the fundamental shift in our beliefs and behavior required to build more efficient and responsible economic and social systems. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
audiobook Duration 9m 53s audiobook Authors By Bob Doppelt

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The B Corp Handbook: How to Use Business as a Force for Good
This audio edition makes the business case for improving your social and environmental performance, and offers a step-by-step "quick start guide" on how your company can join an innovative and rapidly.
audiobook Duration 4h 16m 23s audiobook Authors By Ryan Honeyman

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Green Giants: How Smart Companies Turn Sustainability into Billion-Dollar Businesses
This audio edition is packed with eye-opening research, exclusive interviews, and enlightening examples from Chipotle, Toyota, Unilever, Tesla, General Electric, and more, and serves as a blueprint for sustainable success that anyone can follow.
audiobook Duration 7h 6m 4s audiobook Authors By E. Freya Williams

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Buyosphere: The Consumer Awareness Revolution
This audio edition details emerging technologies that reveal the hidden impacts of every product we buy - on society, the environment, and our health. Read by the authors.
audiobook Duration 1h 8m 41s audiobook Authors By Daniel Goleman, Dara O’Rourke

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Radical Transparency: How Business Can Leverage Consumer Climate Change
This audio edition offers businesses practical steps to leverage the coming shift in consumer awareness to increase market share and create a prosperous, sustainable future for the planet. Read by the authors.
audiobook Duration 1h 3m 41s audiobook Authors By Daniel Goleman, Gregory Norris

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Repeatability: Build Enduring Businesses for a World of Constant Change
This audio edition shows how some of the world's best-known firms combine a core differentiation model with speed, adaptability, and simplicity to land them at the top for long periods of time
audiobook Duration 6h 52m 2s audiobook Authors By Chris Zook, James Allen

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The Radical Horizon: A Primer on Business Sustainability
This audio edition discusses the demand for transparent products and processes, as well as how to evaluate ecological upgrades - and is essential for anyone trying to understand the radical shifts happening in everything we make and buy.
audiobook Duration 38m 3s audiobook Authors By Dara O’Rourke, Gregory Norris

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Great Powers, Climate Change, and Global Environmental Responsibilities
This book examines the role of great powers in the international politics of climate change. It develops a novel analytical framework for studying environmental power in international relations, what counts as a great power in the environmental field, and what their special environmental responsibilities are.
audiobook Duration 11h 50m 53s audiobook Authors By Barry Buzan, Robert Falkner

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Revolutionary Power: An Activist's Guide to the Energy Transition
Revolutionary Power is a playbook for the energy transformation complete with a step-by-step analysis of the key energy policy areas that are ripe for intervention. She draws from her experience as an energy-justice advocate, a lawyer, and a queer woman of color to inspire activists working to build our new energy system.
audiobook Duration 6h 42m 43s audiobook Authors By Shalanda H. Baker
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