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Top 40 MBAs double down on commitments to sustainability

Corporate Knights

A business course that once focused on maximizing shareholder profit now teaches how to measure purposeful value creation. A risk-management class, once strictly concerned with fiscal threats to corporate profits, now assesses climate impacts on bottom-line decisions.

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From Net Zero to Net Positive

Sustainable Round Table

Companies operating under business-as-usual conditions continue to ignore the IPCC’s 2018 Special Report on 1.5 Intuit’s Purely Green Program elevates corporate social responsibility to the next level, supplying renewable energy to Texas-based energy customers at reduced rates.

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From Net Zero to Net Positive

Sustainable Round Table

Companies operating under business-as-usual conditions continue to ignore the IPCC’s 2018 Special Report on 1.5 Intuit’s Purely Green Program elevates corporate social responsibility to the next level, supplying renewable energy to Texas-based energy customers at reduced rates.

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US Pharma Prices: a Hard Pill to Swallow

Chris Hall

And in this age of corporate social responsibility, companies have a role to play in ensuring their products are made available to those who need them most. In 2020, a cross-sectional study compared the profits of 35 large pharma companies with 357 non-pharma ones on the S&P 500 index over the 2000-2018 period.

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Dignity First Climate Leadership

Sustainable Round Table

Since I shared with my guests a deep concern that the world was not making demonstrable progress towards the halving of global emissions the 2018 UN IPCC Special Report on 1.5 In August of 2019, 181 CEOs of America’s largest corporations committed to a purpose driven, multi-stakeholder approach to long-term value creation.

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Dignity First: Executive, Enterprise & Economic Leadership

Sustainable Round Table

Specifically, Fukuyama has offered a deeply historical argument that the newly recognized “pro-social” orientation of human beings was actually long recognized by, and indeed foundational to, significant traditions in western political thought. and the resulting violent, authoritarian, white nationalist reaction. .