Sustainability

MIT SMR’s spring 2022 issue exemplifies its focus on strategic leadership, digital innovation, and sustainable business.

Creative approaches to setting prices and managing costs can make responsible business practices financially viable.

Scaling with agile, Elon Musk’s Cybertruck, and Amazon weaves itself into the fabric of America.

Digitization of physical products and production has become an emerging idea in sustainability.

The most valuable contributions of AI to the economy may be as an adjunct to advancing discoveries.

In the first half of 2017, these MIT SMR articles attracted the most readers.

The real divide over climate change is about whether markets have the power to change the world.

MIT SMR and BCG’s 2017 sustainability research report offers eight lessons for sustainable business.

Companies need to recognize — and account for — the financial risks posed by climate change.

OECD standards require investors to conduct environmental and human rights due diligence.

Investors are beginning to see a strong link between corporate sustainability performance and financial performance.

The new Sloan School building at MIT shows that green building makes economic sense.

Congress’s failure to see the ramifications of its shifting ethanol policies is wreaking havoc on energy supply chains.

A diverse network of stakeholders will help advance an SOI process aimed at solving public problems.

As part of its sustainability strategy, organic yogurt company Stonyfield has made a mission of total transparency in its sourcing.

What if companies used information systems more broadly — not just to measure profits but also to account for the needs of people and the environment?

In the fourth part of the series, Gregory Unruh describes how sustainability can be introduced into the business dialects of functional areas.

To create a level playing field in the energy sector, we need to re-examine our policies on subsidizing hydrocarbons.

Auditing the supply chain is the biggest obstacle to putting sustainability principles into practice. Will the influx of big data initiatives change that?

A three-question framework can help companies identify the most strategic sustainability issues.