The Harvard Business Review turned their attention to "green" business in their September 2009 issue. "Why Green Is Growing (When Not Much Else Is)," they ask. The answer comes in a lead article, which makes the audacious claim "that companies won't...

It's been a rough few weeks for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Once a leading business organization and lobbying force, the Chamber has been hit from all quarters over its opposition to climate crisis action and its aggressive work to undermine current...

At the registration desk, I got my goody bag. I peered inside and found a corporate responsibility report from ExxonMobil, a sponsor (believe it or not) of the Business for Social Responsibility (BSR) annual meeting that took place last week in San...

When a corporation gets it wrong and bad things happen, we've come to expect a fairly standard response. Public relations teams twist facts and logic. Blame is aggressively laid elsewhere. Innocence is strongly proclaimed, and not much changes. At best...

It's easy to think of pollution as a problem we all share. Bad air, dirty water, chemical contamination, and other challenges spread themselves out roughly equally. Or so we think. The truth is more complicated: Some places are more polluted than...