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Seventh Generation, a sustainable cleaning and personal care products company, has received a purchase offer from Unilever. Seventh Generation’s CEO is deciding whether to accept the offer and, if so, under what terms.
- Topics on: Climate Sustainability, Statistics, Sustainability Reporting and Measurement
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Rick Anderson, senior director of NextEra’s Green Marketing Group, is crafting a marketing strategy to move Renewable Energy Certificates (REC) on the voluntary market by demonstrating the added value of the company’s…
- Topics on: Climate Sustainability, Corporate Sustainability Strategy, Sustainability Reporting and Measurement
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In September 2022, Yvon Chouinard, the iconoclastic founder of outdoor apparel company Patagonia, announced a new ownership model for his company.
- Topics on: Business Analytics, Climate Tech, Corporate Sustainability Strategy, Social Impact and Sustainability, Sustainability Reporting and Measurement
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In July 2019, Graphic Packaging CEO Michael Doss was proposing a $600 million investment in a new machine to produce coated recycled board (CRB), a type of paper packaging used for consumer products (cups, cereal boxes, beverage boxes, etc.) that utilized recycled paper as an input.
- Topics on: Climate Sustainability, Corporate Sustainability Strategy, Social Impact and Sustainability
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In 2016, Swedish entrepreneurs Carl-Erik Lagercrantz and Peter Carlsson founded an electric battery company called Northvolt with the dual goals of creating a company to address climate change and bringing battery manufacture to Europe.
- Topics on: Climate Sustainability, Corporate Sustainability Strategy, Social Impact and Sustainability
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The case describes BMW’s electrification and decarbonization strategy, and how the company measured carbon emissions throughout the life cycle of its vehicles and used tools like carbon abatement cost curves to evaluate decarbonization opportunities.
- Topics on: Climate Sustainability, Corporate Sustainability Strategy, Social Impact and Sustainability
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The Miami metropolitan area is a global epicenter of climate risk from heat and sea level rise, but leaders have only recently mobilized for action to respond to this systemic challenge.
- Topics on: Climate Sustainability, Corporate Sustainability Strategy
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Megan Murday, the founder of Metric, an environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) analytics startup, must decide which customer segment to target as a beachhead market. She received positive feedback from a Swiss venture capital (VC) firm, indicating their immediate interest in using Metric’s software.
- Topics on: Corporate Sustainability Strategy, Social Impact and Sustainability
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In July 2016, Di Yang and Grace Guo of the leading Chinese private equity group CPE faced a dilemma—a happy dilemma, but a challenge nonetheless.
- Topics on: Climate Investing, Climate Sustainability, Climate Tech, Corporate Sustainability Strategy, Statistics
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In 2020, Ndidi Nwuneli, founder and CEO of Sahel Consulting in Nigeria, faced a thorny set of problems.
- Topics on: Climate Tech, Corporate Sustainability Strategy
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On October 7, 2020, Bespoken Spirits publicly announced it had received $2.6 million of seed funding for its “sustainable maturation process,” a process that could produce award-winning whiskeys in just days rather than years using a novel technology and data science.
- Topics on: Climate Tech, Corporate Sustainability Strategy
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Elie Girard has taken the helm as CEO of Atos—multinational IT giant—to lead the company into the next era of digital transformation.
- Topics on: Climate Tech, Corporate Sustainability Strategy, Statistics
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In June 2020, GreenFire Energy Inc. (GreenFire) presented its report to the California Energy Commission indicating that its proof of concept project to demonstrate its new geothermal electricity generation technology, ECO2G™, had been a success.
- Topics on: Climate Investing, Climate Tech, Corporate Sustainability Strategy, Statistics
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In early 2020, 24M Technologies (24M) announced that two of its strategic investors had commenced building plants to produce lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries based on 24M’s novel semi-solid electrode technology.
- Topics on: Climate Tech, Statistics
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In 2018, Middlebury College’s board of trustees is considering a proposal called Energy2028 that would push the small, liberal arts and sciences college in Vermont to become a net zero carbon emitter, decrease energy usage by 25%, divest fossil fuels from its endowment, and build new educational programming focused on energy and climate change.
- Topics on: Corporate Sustainability Strategy, Renewable Energy
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For the past few decades, Australia has dealt with the benefits and costs of repeated mining booms—inflation, a housing bubble, a current account deficit, and growing dependence on China.
- Topics on: Climate Investing, Climate Tech
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In November 2019, Ilham Kadri, CEO of Solvay, a Belgian specialty chemicals and advanced materials group, with annual revenues of more than €10 billion in 2018, announced the group’s mid-term strategy, eight months after she took the helm as Solvay’s 11th CEO.
- Topics on: Business Analytics, Climate Finance, Corporate Sustainability Strategy
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With long development timelines and high risk, new energy technologies were often left to languish in the “valley of death,” unable to raise enough funds to bring a product to market. In 2014, Sarah Kearney founded the nonprofit Prime Coalition to solve this problem.
- Topics on: Climate Investing, Climate Tech
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- Topics on: Corporate Sustainability Strategy, Social Impact and Sustainability, Statistics
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- Topics on: Climate Sustainability, Operations