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Of course, an indicator is worth a thousand words. Big Ideas: Leading sustainable organizations’ sustainability goals reflect on what works and what doesn’t New research shows which sustainability practices have a statistically significant impact on the overall success, cost savings and revenue impact of measured sustainable value chain initiatives Significantly affected. Nina Kruschwitz Year Month Day Reading Time: Minutes Topics Social Responsibility Workplace, Teams and Culture Supply Chains & Logistics Climate Change Equality Sustainability Collaboration Leading Sustainable Organizations Corporate Adoption of Sustainable Business Practices For Powerful Market environment and lasting society are crucial.
What does it mean to be a sustainable business? What steps must leaders take to embed sustainability into their organizations? More from this series Subscribe Share What to read next MIT Must-Read Artificial Intelligence Book of the Year Top 10 Articles of the Year Open Innovation Twenty to Your Boardroom Don’t You Want to Do More That Might Work Job Function Email List Do less things that might not work? That was the question Dan Aronson posed during a breakout session on the findings of the fifth annual Sustainable Value Chains Study. The MIT Sustainability Summit was held at the MIT Media Lab from October to September.
Aronson a Sloan alumnus who currently serves as director of sustainability services at Deloitte Consulting, set out to identify specific management practices that would help companies achieve their sustainability goals. He and his colleagues emphasized that their study focused on the entire value chain of suppliers, distributors, and partners rather than simply analyzing the sustainability of a specific organization's supply chain. Their first step was to review all sustainable supply chain research from the past five years in order to build on what is known and avoid duplication. Drawing on input from the American Society for Quality, the Association of Corporate Responsibility Officers, and the Institute for Supply Management, they developed hypotheses and designed.
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