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CleanSpritz

Sales of CleanSpritz all-purpose cleaning spray have been steadily declining for the past five years, and management believes the decline correlates to a growing environmental concern among U.S. consumers. CleanSpritz’s management is considering several…
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The Weather Company

New CEO David Kenny transformed The Weather Company in less than two years from a primary identity as a cable television channel to a multi-platform digital company innovating in the uses of weather data. He assesses progress and considers strategic choices…
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Groom Energy Solutions: Selling Efficiency

Groom Energy Solutions helps organizations reduce their energy use and costs through the implementation of energy efficiency measures, which create long-term financial and environmental benefits. With early success serving customers in the cold storage and…

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Colbún and the Future of Chile’s Power

This case is about Colbún, Chile’s second largest electricity generator, which is facing significant uncertainty regarding the cost and availability of alternative energy sources. Problems with the contracted supply of natural gas and the volatility of oil prices, coupled…
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Australia: Commodities, Competitiveness, Climate and China

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. Between 1996 and 2007, however, Australia had most of these issues…
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Edward Lundberg and the Rockville Building: Energy Efficiency Finance in Commercial Real Estate

A commercial landlord analyzes options for funding and accomplishing energy efficiency retrofit. The situation is complicated by lease terms and uncertain effectiveness of the intervention. Students must grapple with obstacles including changing energy…
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Duke Energy and the Nuclear Renaissance

Duke Energy, an American investor-owned electric utility, confronts multibillion dollar decisions about its future fuel mix. In particular, its leaders are considering building new nuclear capacity. Whether this is sensible depends, among other things, on demand…
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The Clorox Company: Leveraging Green for Growth

The Clorox Company needs to decide on the marketing strategy going forward for its three sustainable brands, Brita, Burt’s Bees and Green Works. These brands had fared differently over the past 3 years and each presents multiple courses of action heading into…
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FIJI Water: Carbon Negative?

Seeking to go beyond global best practices in reducing environmental impacts, FIJI Water, a premium artesian bottled water company in the United States, launched a Carbon Negative campaign that would offset more greenhouse gas emissions than were…
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Sound Group China: Urban Waste Entrepreneurs

Private sector entrepreneur in China with advanced solid waste management capability competes with state owned enterprises and also government policies supporting a rival technology. Wen Yibo has used engineering expertise and political savvy to build a major…
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AEP: Carbon Capture and Storage

By October 2010, American Electric Power, the largest coal-fired, electric utility in the United States, had been operating a carbon capture and sequestration pilot plant for one year. Using a proprietary, Alstom chilled ammonia technology, AEP was capturing…
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Tea and Sustainability at Unilever: Turning Over a New Leaf (A)

Michiel Leijnse, global brand development director of Lipton Tea, faces a very important meeting with Unilever CEO Patrick Cescau in a few short hours, during which he will recommend strategies on how Lipton can become…

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Firestone: Crises Across the Decades

A PBS documentary has uncovered a trove of recently discovered documents revealing a 1991 deal in which Firestone agreed to pay Liberian warlord Charles Taylor $2.3 million in exchange for keeping its profitable rubber farm…

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Intel: Undermining the Conflict Mineral Industry

Intel Corporation is a leading manufacturer of components found in nearly all electronics.Intel became aware that its supply chain for tantalum, tin, tungsten, and gold was fueling one of the deadliest conflicts since World War II…

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Coke in the Crosshairs (Spanish Translation): Water, India, and the University of Michigan

El caso práctico y la nota de enseñanza que lo acompaña, corresponden a la versión en español de “Coca-Cola en la mira: El Agua, India y la Universidad de Michigan.” Coke In the Crosshairs: Water, India, and the University of Michigan…

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Kellogg and Wilmar International: A Partnership Under Fire

Kellogg Chief Sustainability Officer Diane Holdorf is facing a campaign by environmental activists who allege that the company’s Indonesian supplier Wilmar International is illegally growing palm and is engaged in slash and…

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PG&E: Hanging on to a Ray of Hope

Pacific Gas & Electric is the second-largest investor-owned utility in the country and the largest in California, serving 15 million people across 70,000 square miles in central and northern California. Revenues at the utility are…

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Morgan Stanley: Positioning to Be the Sustainability Finance Leader

It is five years since the Great Recession, and Morgan Stanley and its competitors are still trying to regain the confidence of investors. To that end, James Gorman, Morgan Stanley CEO and chairman, has taken the bold step…

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Interface’s Net-Works Program: A New Approach to Creating Social Value through Sustainable Sourcing

Interface ranks among the top three manufacturers in the carpet industry, measured by revenues per year. Through its sustainability program, the company has achieved astounding results. Still, while Interface has made…

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Taking a Bite Out of Apple: Labor Rights and the Role of Companies and Consumers in a Global Supply Chain

An NPR report, which uncovers labor-camp-like working conditions at Apple’s Foxconn supplier in China has gone viral. With 2011 revenues of $92 billion, the contractor, which manufacturers Apple’s Mac computers, iPhones…

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