Digital Business Transformation

Senior leaders rarely get their most important work done by issuing orders. A CTO cannot compel a partner firm, a dean cannot order a faculty to embrace a curriculum, a ministry cannot be forced to share data. On the questions that matter, outcome...

Over years of research into hundreds of companies, we've found that businesses fall into recognizable patterns, or mindsets, based on two simple variables: how much they invest in sustainability beyond what regulation requires and how broad or nar...

Here is a question worth considering next time you go to the supermarket: when was the last time you bought something primarily because it was sustainable? Not just sustainable along with everything else you cared about. But sustainable as the lea...

There is a belief embedded deep in most corporate sustainability strategies: if we just communicated better and showed customers the science and the stakes around our green products, more of them would come around to buying them (even if they were...

For more than a decade, ESG-linked funds and corporate sustainability strategies have run on the same quiet assumption: spend more on sustainability, and the market will eventually reward you for it. The problem, however, is that this theory is mo...

For years, executives were sold a compelling idea: doing good would also mean doing well. Surveys suggested that consumers were increasingly willing to pay more for products seen (or marketed) as better for the planet. Consultants reinforced the m...

Multi-stage stochastic optimization is a well-known quantitative tool applied in a wide variety of decision-making problems. In this article, we focus on generalized flood risk management problems with Fréchet distributions used to describe the un...