Olin, Ross, Stanford Named Among Top 16 Schools for Green MBAs
In partnership with The Princeton Review, Entrepreneur magazine has compiled a list of 16 top schools for green MBAs based on a survey of students and administrators at 325 graduate schools of business.
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Leslie Guevarra | Source: “GreenBiz.com” | Subject: MBA Program Rankings
Debunking the Notion of a Triple Bottom Line
The effective debunking of the notion of a triple bottom line is 6½ years old now, and it is still making people angry.
Content: Article | Author: Robert Pojasek | Source: “GreenBiz.com” | Subject: Social Responsibility (ESG)
How to Build a Framework for Sustainability 2.0
For companies to succeed during these times of change, they’ll need to define and embrace a rigorous framework for sustainability – something that goes beyond well-intended but overarching statements and builds a foundation that helps a firm achieve its sustainability and business goals.
Content: Article | Author: Cary Krosinsky | Source: “GreenBiz.com” | Subject: Social Responsibility (ESG)
Four Steps to Becoming a Sustainable 21st Century Organization
Companies want to ensure the greatest environmental and economic return on each dollar (and hour) spent on sustainability. So which individuals or groups can you influence to support your sustainability efforts? Which individuals or groups pose the greatest business risk with respect to your environmental performance? Where do you start?
Companies should start by evaluating their stakeholders and then taking some counter-intuitive actions: Initiating partnerships with … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Author: Stephen Linaweaver | Source: “GreenBiz.com” | Subject: Social Responsibility (ESG)
The Seven Sins of Greenwashing: Is Everybody Lying?
An updated version of the 2007 report The Six Sins of Greenwashing has just been released. And like its predecessor, this version offers sensational findings: of 2,219 products making environmental claims that researchers found in North American retailers, “over 98 percent” committed one of several “sins.” The 2007 report identified six such sins. This year’s edition adds a seventh.
Content: Article | Author: Joel Makower | Source: “GreenBiz.com” | Subject: Social Responsibility (ESG)
MBA Students Say Businesses Should Address Green and Social Issues
The vast majority of business school students think the private sector should be using its position to address environmental and social issues.
Unfortunately, less than a third believe this is actually happening, according to a new survey from Net Impact and the Aspen Institute Center for Business Education.
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Sources: “GreenBiz.com”, “Net Impact” | Subject: Business School News
Navigating the Wilderness of Green Business Certifications
Getting your business labeled green though a certification program has many benefits, but as companies are discovering, the simple act of choosing which program opens up a world of complications.
Content: Article | Author: Tilde Herrera | Source: “GreenBiz.com” | Subjects: Marketing / Sales, Social Responsibility (ESG)
Survey Shows MBA Students Believe Business Should Be Agent of Social Change
The overwhelming majority of today’s MBA students believe that businesses should work toward the betterment of society, that managers should take into account social and environmental impacts when making business decisions, and that corporate social responsibility should be integrated into core curricula in MBA programs, according to a new survey.
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Sources: “GreenBiz.com”, “Net Impact” | Subjects: Business School News, Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources
Creating a More Meaningful Market
Where is the intersection between personal meaning and business value? Unless we engage in a conversation about what meaning is, we can’t hope to integrate it into our work processes, goals, or solutions.
Content: Article | Author: Nathan Shedroff | Source: “GreenBiz.com” | Subjects: Marketing / Sales, Trends / Analysis
The Balanced Scorecard and Corporate Social Responsibility: Aligning Values for Profit
CSR reporting has grown over the past few years, but the information provided by those reports isn’t always used for strategic advantage. Tying values and measures to a Balanced Scorecard could be the way to make good intentions more profitable.
Content: Article | Authors: David Crawford, Todd Scaletta | Source: “GreenBiz.com” | Subject: Social Responsibility (ESG)
Good, Green Jobs
Published in October 2005, Good, Green Jobs is GreenBiz.com’s go-to guide to landing the environmental job of your dreams. The distinction between “mainstream” and “environmental” fields is a thing of the past; find out why your ideal job might be located in an unexpected sector. This briefing is chock-full of resources and tools to help you navigate your job search successfully, from composing a killer … [ Read more ]
Content: Career Information | Source: “GreenBiz.com” | Subjects: Career Info, Job Search
CSR Reporting and Company Performance: Correlations
With so many companies worldwide producing “corporate social responsibility” (or citizenship or environmental or sustainability) reports, it’s relevant to ask both “how good are they?” and “what do they really tell us?”
Content: Article | Author: Gil Friend | Source: “GreenBiz.com” | Subject: Social Responsibility (ESG)
Why Not ‘Sustainability Fundamentals’ in Corporate Reporting?
Sustainability reporting is often derided as being outside the mainstream of financial reporting, devoid of any relationship to performance. The Economist calls it “corporate storytelling.”
Unfortunately, The Economist is right. Reports are unique accounts of each company’s journey, impossible to compare with other reports, even when reporting frameworks such as the Global Report Initiative’s are applied. The hard analytics (earnings per share, price-earnings ratio, return … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Author: Jean Rogers | Source: “GreenBiz.com” | Subject: Social Responsibility (ESG)
Adapting Your Accounting Practices to Triple Bottom Line Reporting
Certified Management Accountant David Crawford offers background and outlines next steps to help accountants and other financial professionals to meet the challenges of triple bottom line reporting.
Content: Article | Author: David Crawford | Source: “GreenBiz.com” | Subjects: Finance, Social Responsibility (ESG)
The Carbon Trade
While some NGOs and “green” businesses favor the carbon trade and view it as a win-win solution that reconciles environmental protection with economic prosperity, some environmentalists and grassroots organizations claim that it is no answer to environmental problems and that it does not address the causes of global warming.
Content: Article | Author: Carmelo Ruiz | Source: “GreenBiz.com” | Subject: Social Responsibility (ESG)
Report Names Practices that Lead to Environmental Accounting Fraud
A new report, “Fooling Investors and Fooling Themselves” identifies aggressive accounting and asset management tactics that can lead to environmental accounting fraud.
Content: Article | Author: Sanford Lewis | Source: “GreenBiz.com” | Subjects: Accounting, Social Responsibility (ESG)
Literacy to Save the Earth
What’s the value of an environmentally literate America?
According to Kevin J. Coyle, the answer is: about $75 billion a year. And that’s just the low-hanging fruit.
Content: Article | Author: Joel Makower | Source: “GreenBiz.com” | Subject: Social Responsibility (ESG)
Study Finds MBA Graduates Seek Ethical Employers
Last week a new study furnished yet another strong argument for the “doing good is good business” crowd: corporate social responsibility may just help your human resources department snag up-and-coming MBAs without sending first-year salaries through the roof. Researchers found that a surprising number of recent business-school grads were willing to earn less to work for more socially conscious companies.
Content: Article | Authors: Catherine A. Ramus, David B. Montgomery | Source: “GreenBiz.com” | Subjects: MBA Related, Social Responsibility (ESG)
Training a New Generation of Business Leaders
Three MBA programs emerge at the forefront of sustainable business education.
Content: Article | Source: “GreenBiz.com” | Subjects: MBA Related, Social Responsibility (ESG)
Using Experiential Simulation to Teach Sustainability
Authors Susan Svoboda and John Whalen offer this practical guide for developing and using a simulation exercise to help MBA students and working professionals build an understanding of sustainability.
Editor’s Note: this article is also interesting for its analysis of the value of experiential learning via simulations.
Content: Article | Authors: John Whalen, Susan Svoboda | Source: “GreenBiz.com” | Subjects: Human Resources, Social Responsibility (ESG)