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The corporate sustainability realm has few conversations that do not eventually turn to Wal-Mart Stores. It’s nearly impossible to be neutral about the retail giant, whether it be over its impact on local business, procurement, employment and health care practices, prescription-drug offerings or its sustainability efforts that dig deep into the supply chain.
And so, it was fitting that Lee Scott, the former CEO who led Wal-Mart’s embrace of CSR, was a speaker Tuesday at the Advanced Research Project Agency-Energy’s Energy Innovation Summit.[…] Continue Reading »
Mike Richardson is the author of “Wheel$pin: The Agile Executive’s Manifesto – Accelerate Your Growth, Leverage Your Value, Beat Your Competition,” an award-winning chairman of round-table peer groups of CEOs and senior executives with Vistage International and an expert contributor to the Executive Street blog.
Change isn’t what it used to be. It used to be slower; foreseeable and predictable; more manageable.[…] Continue Reading »
New energy technologies and sustainability must prove their business value through efforts such as the Advanced Research Project Agency-Energy, which can “fund efforts that touch the boundaries of current understanding.” That was according to former Wal-Mart Stores CEO Lee Scott, who was joined by other executives and federal officials during Tuesday’s morning sessions of the ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit.[…] Continue Reading »
This poll analysis was written by Jeremy Victor, president of Make Good Media and editor-in-chief of B2Bbloggers.com. For more of his writing, visit B2Bbloggers.com and follow him on Twitter and Google+.
SmartPulse — our weekly nonscientific reader poll in SmartBrief on Social Media — tracks feedback from leading marketers about social media practices and issues.
This week we asked: Have you ever hired an outside social media expert to help with your business’ social presence?[…] Continue Reading »
This is a guest post by Murray Newlands. Murray is the CEO and founder of Influence People, an online marketing firm based in San Francisco.
To promote his film “The Dictator,” Sacha Baron Cohen arrived at the Oscars clad in a white Gaddafian suit and pinned with medals he most certainly didn’t deserve. He was a mixture between the stereotypical Latin American and Middle Eastern two-bit dictators, Army colonels who led coups and became iron-fisted rulers of Third World non-nation states.[…] Continue Reading »
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