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Making Sustainability More Tangible

Harvard Business Review

A persistent managerial challenge is how to account for the intangible value generated from sustainability initiatives. The challenge is that these important stakeholder impacts are difficult to see or measure — for example, you can’t look at two eggs and identify which one was grown sustainably.

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Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Program with Real Impact

Harvard Business Review

Exploring the critical role of experimentation in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), research on four multinational companies reveals a stark difference in CSR effectiveness. Overall, embracing a dynamic, data-driven approach to CSR is essential for meaningful social and environmental impact.

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Sustainable Programming

Apiumhub

Introduction Sustainable programming refers to the creation of software and applications that are designed and developed with their impact on the environment and society at large in mind. Today, sustainability has become a global concern and a priority for many companies and organizations worldwide.

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2023: A Strange, Tumultuous Year in Sustainability

Harvard Business Review

The year 2023 contained several important sustainability narratives and trends. The author outlines three key ones — the anti-ESG movement, China’s acceleration of a clean economy, and the rise of reporting regulations — and then suggests a series countervailing forces pushing against each.

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Domain experts wanted: Submit your guest articles to Extra Crunch

TechCrunch

Guest articles are hugely popular with our startup audience — if the topics are right. Whether it’s related to SEO, content, email, social or other marketing channels, they’re looking for granular advice that can help them find and engage the right users. Submit a guest column to Extra Crunch (and TechCrunch).

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Nudging Employees to Make More Sustainable Choices

Harvard Business Review

The company itself has endeavored to encourage “employee sustainable behaviors,” such as the voluntary adoption of electric vehicles for employees eligible for company cars. As a result, over half of employees have elected to drive electric vehicles.

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Article: Sustaining Fast Flow with Socio-Technical Thinking

InfoQ Culture Methods

To sustain a fast flow of changes over long periods of time, organizations address both the social and technical, socio-technical, aspects of reducing complexity.