Social Responsibility

Effective philanthropy must be run as professionally as the core business.

A business case for sustainability requires more difficult change than most are ready to consider.

The value of external knowledge sharing increases when work groups are more structurally diverse.

Stakeholder theory may be more conducive than shareholder theory to curbing company impropriety.

Companies lose money because they treat pollution control and plant operations as separate concerns. But it costs less in the long run to make plant managers true partners.

Electric utility companies will have to reinvent themselves to change from vertical to “virtual” integration based on value networks segmented into six areas: generation, transmission, distribution, energy services, power markets, and IT products and services.