The Quest for an Environmental Metric

Gazing at weather systems, a ground-breaking scientist spawned an ecological accounting standard that Wall Street might one day embrace.

Editor’s Note: discusses emergy, a concept created by University of Florida professor Howard Odum, which is a blueprint for breaking down the world into basic, measurable energy components called solar emjoules. A joule is a unit of energy that is available now. An emjoule (“energy-embodied joule”) … [ Read more ]

Not by the Numbers

While finance chiefs do seek tangible results from executive education programs, they don’t like measuring their effects in terms of ROI.

Fertile Ground in Executive Education

When executives hear the word “environment,” they tend to think “burden,” but one executive-education program hopes to prove that sustainable business is a growth area where they “can use finance as a tool to add value.”

You’ve Got a Great Employer

How do you know if you’re working for the right company? Here are ten markers that all point to the same thing: a great workplace for finance managers.

Editor’s Note: though written about finance managers, most markers identified apply not just to the finance world

Best Practices: Back to Basics

Article discusses the potential resurgence of Six Sigma and its implications for the New Economy.