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White Paper
By Matt Kistler | Wal-Mart
Wal-Mart believes that being an efficient and profitable business can go hand-in-hand with being a good steward of the environment. Its mission hasn't changed: helping more than 176 million shoppers...
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White Paper
By Andrew Winston | Co-Author of Green to Gold
How do companies create value? There really are only so many ways. Borrowing from strategy guru Michael Porter's work and tweaking it a bit for the environmental age, there are four big buckets of v...
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White Paper
By Peter Capozuca, Kathryn Pavlovsky, and Michael Daher | Deloitte
Sustainability is increasingly influencing brand image and perception of consumer product companies. According to a study by Information Resources, Inc., about 50 percent of consumers consider at le...
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White Paper
By Stephen Stokes, Ph.D. / AMR Research
The almost invariably gray skies independent of season in London, England, give visitors to the old city an eerily Dickensian impression that the best of times may have already passed. But in terms of...
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White Paper
By Taylor Wilkerson and Maya Ramaswamy / LMI
There is little doubt that the global business environment is tilting toward a more green perspective. Consumers are becoming increasingly aware of environmental impact from products they buy and gove...
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White Paper
By Nancy Wertheim / Deloitte Tax LLP
When the subject turns to environmental issues in a retail setting, discussion typically goes either to doing the politically correct thing (such as, saving trees or eliminating plastic shopping bags)...
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White Paper
By John Faust
Growth in offshore sourcing has made supply lines longer, more complex and more vulnerable to delays and disruptions than ever. The intense pressure to cut costs leaves many companies with only enough...
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Case Study
By NewPage
Sharing knowledge with strategic business partners is central to the goal of sustainability. As a socially responsible business, Williams-Sonoma, Inc. made the decision to pursue a larger commitment...
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Solution Provider
As energy costs continue to climb, businesses around the world, from the largest corporation to the corner store, are looking for new ways to conserve energy and resources. And, as consensus builds on...
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Case Study
By Walter Stahel
Q: You coined of the term "Cradle-to-Cradle". Could you give a brief overview of what this term means and how it has been received?
A: The original idea was that you could actually turn the economy f...
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White Paper
By Taylor Wilkerson | LMI
For most companies, the path to sustainability begins with the supply chain. After all, the supply chain is where companies move things, make things, store things, and throw things away. It is a cruci...
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Solution Provider
Supply-Chain Services, Inc. (SSI) is unique in the industry in that it offers a complete reverse supply-chain solution to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and corporate customers, from produc...
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Case Study
NewPage, North America's largest manufacturer of coated paper, found going green to be good - not just for the environment, but for their bottom line.
Launched to trial in late 2006, and developed...
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Case Study
By XCD Performance Consulting
Client:
A consumer products distributor and merchandiser for Wal‐Mart and Sam’s Clubs needed to overcome operational challenges, reduce variable and fixed costs, and improve customer serv...
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White Paper
By Jen Ace
Have you heard that going green can save your company money? One of the most useful tools for greening your business is called Life Cycle Analysis, which can help you find good answers to a range of...
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White Paper
By Jade Lee | Supply-Chain Services, Inc. (SSI)
The Sustainable Enterprise Report spoke with Jade Lee, the president of Supply-Chain Services, Inc. (SSI) of Lombard, Ill., which describes itself as “the best-in-class leader in the electroni...
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Solution Provider
Businesses make strides toward sustainable supply-chains through labor management programsWalking through a new distribution or manufacturing facility, you can’t help but notice the low-level ...
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White Paper
By Toby Reid / Sole Gear Design Inc.
"I just want to say one word to you. Just one word. Are you listening? Plastics."– Mr. McGuire advising young Benjamin Braddock in the movie "The Graduate" (1967).When those words were first h...
