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Imagining a Sustainable World
By Lloyd Timberlake, WBCSD
What would a world increasingly shaped by sustainable development issues look like? In fact, what would a “sustainable” world look like?
Try to imagine a world of 9+ billion people where all can meet their needs in ways that do not destroy planetary systems. Now try to imagine why a group of business [...]
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How Important Is the Illicit Economy?
Moises Naim, editor of Foreign Policy, has spent more than a decade studying the illicit economy that moves everything from drugs and guns to pirated movies and human body parts around the world. In the book, Illicit, he outlines what amount to a shadow system of global business and trade.
Q: In Illicit, you write that [...]
Economist Robert Reich believes that the excesses of capitalism have produced a world order in which people feel good as consumers but suffer as citizens.
When Robert Reich published Supercapitalism: The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life in 2007, the U.S. economy was growing, the financial sector was intact, and the housing bubble had just [...]
By Lloyd Timberlake, WBCSD
What would a world increasingly shaped by sustainable development issues look like? In fact, what would a “sustainable” world look like?
Try to imagine a world of 9+ billion people where all can meet their needs in ways that do not destroy planetary systems. Now try to imagine why a group of business [...]
Companies can improve their innovation performance by getting their formal and informal organizations in sync.
Right at this moment, in a conference room or at an executive offsite meeting, a group of senior leaders of a large global company are wondering why they aren’t innovating enough. They’re probably focusing on a few specific questions: “Why don’t [...]
How Profitable are Your Customers … Really?
With thousands of golf courses needing to be mowed, watered and fertilized, the U.S. West Coast looked like the perfect new market for one Midwest-based lawn care products manufacturer. Initial forays into the region yielded strong sales, high market penetration, and a 26 percent gross margin. So why was the company’s bottom line still stagnating? [...]
KFC China’s Recipe for Success
If there were just a few things that China has wholly embraced from the West, it would be their love for Kentucky Fried Chicken, or KFC as it is more commonly known. In 1987, the fast-food operator opened its first outlet near Tiananmen Square in Beijing. Then came 2,000 other outlets, which sprung up across [...]
If companies want to cut into sales of counterfeit products, they need to understand why consumers buy them in the first place.
As the counterfeit trade booms, companies are rolling out massive campaigns to get people to stop buying fakes. But the messages they use are often off the mark.
Companies have tried everything from threatening prosecution [...]
The New, Faster Face of Innovation
Thanks to technology, change has never been so easy — or so cheap.
Call it innovation on steroids. Or innovation at warp speed. Or just the innovation of rapid innovation.
But the essential point remains: Technology is transforming innovation at its core, allowing companies to test new ideas at speeds—and prices—that were unimaginable even a decade ago. [...]
With the right conditions in place — education, entrepreneurialism, and environmental awareness among them — a young, eager, educated workforce can be the key to prosperity.
In June 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama noted in a speech at a Wisconsin town hall meeting that the U.S. would have to take decisive steps to better educate its [...]
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