Social Responsibility
Data, AI, & Machine Learning
OpenAI’s Trillion-Dollar Compute Web Tightens
New pacts with AWS, Oracle, Nvidia, CoreWeave and others lock in gigawatts of capacity as funding grows more complex and cash burn looms.
Shivani Tiwari
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AI and Machine Learning
India’s Data Center Demand to Double as APAC Powers Up
Kaumudi Kashikar Gurjar
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Corporate Social Responsibility
The Case for Quiet Corporate Activism
Leaders concerned that they will be penalized for championing sustainability and diversity can still sustain their commitments.
Julia Binder and Heather Cairns-Lee
Featured
From Employee-Owners to Environmental Champions
When employees become owners, companies achieve measurably stronger environmental performance. Here’s how this ownership model drives sustainability excellence.
Jegoo Lee
Climate Change
The Time for Leadership Courage Is Right Now
A handful of high-profile companies have explicitly backtracked on previous sustainability commitments in the wake of the new administration’s hostility and some — most notably some big law firms — have fully capitulated. But the vast majority have just gone silent.
Andrew Winston
Climate Change
Rethinking Growth in a Finite World
To feed our growing economy, humans consume more than 100 billion tons of natural resources per year, or roughly 11 tons of natural resources for every person on Earth. That includes more than 42 billion tons of nonmetallic minerals, 23 billion tons of biomass, 15 billion tons of fossil fuels, and 10 billion tons of metal ores.
Andrew J. Hoffman
Climate Change
Inside BASF and Henkel’s Journey to Tackle Industrial Emissions
While the large differences in the two companies’ CO2 emissions are partly the result of the size difference between them, those gaps are mostly due to where they sit on the value chain: BASF manufactures a broad range of chemical products, including basic chemicals, while Henkel purchases chemical raw materials to incorporate into its final products.
Martin Glaum, Alexander Gerybadze, Thomas Müller-Kirschbaum, and Ralph Schweens
Social Responsibility
Make a Stronger Business Case for Sustainability
When greener products and processes add costs, managers can shift other levers to maintain profitability.
Karel Cool, Atalay Atasu, and Nathan Furr
AI and Machine Learning
Will AI Help or Hurt Sustainability? Yes
AI has the potential to help address societal problems like climate change, but challenges like high energy consumption threaten to negate its benefits.
Andrew Winston
Climate Change
How the 2024 Paris Olympics Fast-Tracked Decarbonization
Paris pledged to radically reduce its greenhouse gas emissions compared with recent Olympic Games. Here’s what the team learned on the fly.
Atalay Atasu and Luk N. Van Wassenhove
Social Responsibility
Find a Circular Strategy to Fit Your Business Model
Products and services that maximize use and reuse of materials and other resources can be both growth opportunities and sustainability measures.
Samsurin Welch and Khaled Soufani
Climate Change
Why We Need to, Have to, Want to Act on Climate
Need to explain the “why” of climate change action? Here’s a three-part framing to convince businesses and their leaders to respond.