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My Top Eleven Takeaways from WSJ’s Conference on Business and Sustainability
By Cynthia Figge A week ago I attended the Wall Street Journal ECO:nomics Conference. This event was brimming with over 200 CEOs, entrepreneurs, industry experts and policymakers, discussing profitability, innovation, and smarter uses of energy. The focus was on the … Continue reading
CSRHub Co-founder Cynthia Figge to attend WSJ Eco:nomics Conference
CSRHub Co-founder Cynthia Figge will join top CEOs, entrepreneurs, industry experts, and policymakers at this Spring’s Wall Street Journal’s Eco:nomics Conference. Held in Santa Barbara, the conference focuses on the opportunities and risks of environmental capital that are quickly … Continue reading
Dayanu
By Bahar Gidwani In the Jewish Passover service (a holiday that ends this Tuesday at sundown), there is a song called “Dayanu.” The word means “it is enough” and the song suggests that God has been sufficiently kind … Continue reading
Tagged Bahar Gidwani, BP, CSR, gulf oil spill, sustainability, Wall Street Journal
The First Cap and Trade for Carbon Emissions . . . Almost
By Carol Pierson Holding Too bad for California. State voters passed the most ambitious climate bill in the country, AB32, which mandates emissions reductions to below 1990 levels—not up to Kyoto levels, but still the best in the U.S.—and … Continue reading
Tagged AB32, California, California Air Resources Board, California climate bills, California Supreme Court, Cap and Trade, Carol Pierson Holding, Center on Race Poverty and the Environment, climate change, corporate social responsibility, CSR, Environmental Defense Fund, Judge Ernest Goldsmith, Kyoto Protocol, sustainability, Tesoro, The Economist, Valero, Wall Street Journal
Impulse Control for Corporate Managers
The term “impulse control” describes how some people are able to delay the gratification of their desires, and resist temptation. The Wall Street Journal recently pointed out a good study by Fuld & Co. that describes how various groups of corporate managers reacted when faced with an ethical decision. I’ll let you read the details for yourself. What interested me was that Fuld & Co. measured (and contrasted) the level of ethical self-control exhibited in different industries.
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