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Center for Sustainable Business

GreenBiz: Beginner or embedder? Assess your company's sustainability maturity

CSB's Tensie Whelan and Chisara Ehiemere define embedded sustainability and share an interactive self-assessment tool to evaluate a user's current performance across four core areas as a benchmark for the next ph


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New York Times: Few Are Trading In Dangerous E-Bikes for Safer Ones, Despite Fire Risk

The Economic Commute Project, an initiative co-founded by Invest NYC SDG, was featured in a New York Times piece as an innovative solution to dangerous e-bike batteries disproportionately impacting low-income deliver workers.  The t


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Supermarket Guru

Supermarket Guru: Decoding the Complexities of Sustainable Purchasing

Senior Scholar Randi Kronthal-Sacco appears on Phil Lempert's podcast sharing key findings and best practices for marketers leveraging sustainability messaging in a way that best resonates with customers and is more likely to drive purchase. 

 


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HBR

Harvard Business Review: Research: How to Effectively Market Green Products

Tensie Whelan and Randi Kronthal-Sacco discuss insights from research on the most effective sustainability marketing claims.

 


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ImpactAlpha

ImpactAlpha: Flex of worker power raises the stakes for quality jobs

Tensie Whelan and Ulrich Atz published a byline on their findings from analyzing more than 1000 job-related metrics, and the financial and social costs of the data that is still missing from these most common disclosures.

 


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NPR

NPR: Republican Attacks on ESG Aren't Stopping Companies in Red States from Going Green

Tensie Whelan is quoted in an article discussing ESG, the backlash, and the corporates pushing it forward.

 


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Forbes

Forbes: Consumers Respond To Sustainability Claims About Better Health, Cost Savings

"Companies that make too-abstract claims about sustainability in their marketing and advertising might be better off opting for a more personal approach. And messages about improving health or saving money tend to be effective.

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GreenBiz: Green Marketing Can Boost Brands' Reach By A Third, Study Finds

"Effective environmental sustainability messaging in corporate communications can enhance brand reach among consumers by up to a third, according to new "first of its kind" research that demonstrates how 'the sustainability amplifier effect is real.'