The Sustainability Business Case for General Motors April 22, 2014 Master’s Project for the University of Michigan School of Natural Resources and Environment Team Rose Buss Heather Croteau Steven Davidson Carole Kerrey Janet Van De Winkle Faculty Advisor Professor Thomas Gladwin Abstract The purpose of this report is to evaluate and articulate the business case for sustainability for General Motors Company (GM). After assessing the company’s exposure to risk and opportunities, the team recommends
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Case Study: Corporate responsibility in different eras: “Cadbury” 1. a) Did the company overreact by stopping its sourcing of ´slave-produced´ cocoa? Slavery is a system under which people are treated as property to be bought ad soled, and are forced to work. Slaves can be held against their will to refuse to work. Letting people work on a cocoa plant against their will – treating them like animals – might benefit the values of the company without carrying about the wellbeing of the slaves
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of many imported items and establish specific environmental policies and standards beneficial to its operations, the consumer and the environment. The business practices which have made Trader Joe’s operations so successful have also created a corporate structure which has been resistant to
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ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES IN BUSINESS Name: Institution: Instructor: Introduction Environmental management refers to the process of dealing with various environmental issues that arise from an organization’s operations. Environmental management includes all the technologies and activities essential in controlling the environmental performance of an organization. Environmental management systems (EMS) refers to the comprehensive management strategies organizations apply in responding
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Niruntasukrat Mahidol University International College Preparation Center for Language and Mathematics February 27, 2014 Home Depot Foundation's Sustainability Obama stated that “It is not a choice between our environment and our economy; it is a choice between prosperity and decline” (“Sustainable Development Strategies”, 2009). Sustainability means the balance of three things which are steady business, society and friendly environment. In other words, businesses must show crucial responsibility
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work in an environmental 501(c) communicating sustainability messages to corporations, non-profits, and government agencies. I have partnered with a diverse group of companies educating students, supply chains, and corporate staff on relevant sustainability issues. This organization has reinforced my understanding about the amount of positive influence corporations can have. I would like to work for a firm motivated by operationalizing sustainability principles with the reputation and audience
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Marketing Management 555 Assessment 1 Greenwashing Ursula Dixon Student 15413677 Greenwashing Executive Summary The purpose of this report is to outline the term ‘Greenwashing’, describe the effect of the practice of corporate greenwashing on consumer confidence and how in the long term this will affect the environment. Greenwashing is the systematic deception of the buying public about the ‘greenness’ of a product or service. It is a deeper issue than a logo on a product
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Challenge of embedding Sustainability in Organizations: The role of HRM and Leadership INTRODUCTION In the last decade, the importance of sustainability in any part of business in any industry has increased. Sustainability needs to move from being an add-on to a way of life at the firm such that companies can balance their social, financial and environmental risks and obligations. While companies have begun identifying the need to ingrain sustainability into the organisation, most business
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organization’s commitment to environmentally sustainable forms of business activity. Overall speaking, this journal article clarify that through reduction in cost, compliance with environmental legislation, and improving corporate image, etc., organization can developed sustainability via using environmental management system, and environmental accounting can underpin the system as it can track environmental performance of organizations’ in more measurable manner. However, there exist some limitations
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Sustainability is illustrated as a competence of something to be cultivated. Sustainability is the ability to maintain company’s profit or even boosting it. It is about taking whatever that is essential in our survival, without imperilling the needs of our future generation. Thus, if an organization is said to be sustainable, it should be able to survive for eternity. “Sustainability creates and preserves the situation where humans and nature prevails in a dynamic conformity. Thus, allowing it to
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