(Appropriate) Big Data for Climate Resilience?
Three huge opportunities and three risks.
Three huge opportunities and three risks.
A look at the 2013 Global Corporate Sustainability Report and the progress of companies around the world to incorporate responsible practices into their strategies.
To effectively manage climate risks we must strengthen ties between the mitigation and adaptation communities.
New research illustrates how we can overcome challenges facing post-conflict countries like Afghanistan through the use of mobile phones.
Three things companies can do to improve their sustainability agenda to attract talent and improve employee productivity.
The key to creating a vibrant and sustainable company is to find ways to get all employees personally engaged in day-to-day corporate sustainability efforts.
The era of corporations integrating sustainable practices is being surpassed by a new age of corporations actively transforming the market to make it more sustainable. Open access to this article is made possible by The Regents of the University of Michigan on behalf of the Erb Institute.
For much of its history, Wal-Mart’s corporate management team toiled inside its “Bentonville Bubble,” narrowly focused on operational efficiency, growth, and profits. But now the world's largest retailer has widened its sights, building networks of employees, nonprofits, government agencies, and suppliers to “green” its supply chains. Here's how and why the world’s largest retailer is using a network approach to decrease its environmental footprint – and to increase its profitability.
To do as much good as possible with limited resources, funders should look to woefully underfunded protest movements.
Using artificial intelligence to predict behavior can lead to devastating policy mistakes. Health and development programs must learn to apply causal models that better explain why people behave the way they do to help identify the most effective levers for change.