Lean and clean are perfect partners, says CEO of engineering giant

How Maersk is pushing shipping toward net zero

September 11, 2025 • by David Bach, Felix Zeltner in Sustainability • 1 min read • Podcast available

How Maersk is rewriting the rules of shipping decarbonization – through collaboration, purpose, and placing big bets on the fuels of the future. ...

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Leading supply chain transformation with strategic discipline: Stefan Noeken

September 9, 2025 • by Ralf W. Seifert, Katrin Siebenbürger Hacki in Sustainability • 6 min read

Stefan Noeken, former EVP of Supply Chain Management and member of the executive board at Hilti Corporation, offers insights into the strategic evolution of supply chains and the key imperatives required to...

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Dealing with pressure: How Kärcher turns compliance into operational strength

September 8, 2025 • by Julia Binder, Esther Salvi in Sustainability • 7 min read

Working across the globe, Kärcher has adapted to a complex business environment by embracing environmental and social regulation and thrives by turning constraints into principles...

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The energy trilemma: why it pays to get the balance right

September 2, 2025 • by Ann-Christin Andersen , Karl Schmedders in Sustainability • 9 min read

Dealing with the conflicting demands of price, sustainability, and security of energy supplies is challenging, but it’s a useful way to assess your firm’s resilience and agility....

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The new limits of growth

September 1, 2025 • by Julia Binder, Manuel Braun in Sustainability • 9 min read

In the final article of our series, we explore how businesses face hard planetary and geopolitical limits that make the “business as usual” growth model untenable as climate shocks, biodiversity loss, and...

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Soft power, hard results: Making the case for active ownership

September 1, 2025 • by Yuko Takano in Sustainability • 7 min read

The climate transition won’t happen from the sidelines. Active investors must step into the conversation, ask better questions, and hold capital to a higher standard. ...

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Why a new nature of business can still become a reality

August 28, 2025 • by André Hoffmann in Sustainability • 4 min read

The push for a more ecological way of doing business championed by Europe and China, among others, is cause for hope....

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The Wild West of tech sovereignty

August 27, 2025 • by Julia Binder, Manuel Braun in Sustainability • 7 min read

The race for tech sovereignty is intensifying as AI’s growth drives fierce competition for the rare minerals, chips, energy, and talent that underpin advanced computing. Supply chain fragility, geopolitical tensions, and export...

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The end of cheap everything?

August 25, 2025 • by Julia Binder, Manuel Braun in Sustainability • 7 min read

After decades of cheap everything, a new economic order is emerging where the old world of unquestioned abundance is over. In the third part of our five-article series, we explore how this...

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How circularity is becoming your best defense

August 21, 2025 • by Julia Binder, Manuel Braun in Sustainability • 9 min read

In this second article of our series on geopolitics and circularity, we examine how the scramble for critical inputs is fueling a new era of resource wars and what it means for...

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