S-Lab: Laboratory for Sustainable Business

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“Innovate for a Better World.” Nike FY05-06 Corporate Responsibility Report. Beaverton, OR: Nike, Inc., 2006. (Read chapter 4, “Considered Design and the Environment” and skim chapter 3, “Workers in Contract Factories.”)

Locke, Richard, and Monica Romis. “Improving Work Conditions in a Global Supply Chain.” MIT Sloan Management Review 48, no. 2 (2007): 54-62.

Wackernagel, Mathis, et al. “Tracking the Ecological Overshoot of the Human Economy.” PNAS 99, no. 15 (2002): 9266-9271.

Holdren, John. “Science and Technology for Sustainable Well-Being.” Science 319, no. 1 (2008): 424-434.

Cohen, Joel. “Human Population: The Next Half Century.” Science 302 (2003): 1172-1175.

Jenkins, Martin. “Prospects for Biodiversity.” Science 302 (2003): 1175-1177.

Pauly, Daniel, et al. “Future of Fisheries.” Science 302 (2003): 1359-1361.

Barringer, Felicity. “In Many Communities, It’s Not Easy Going Green.” New York Times , February 7, 2008.

Kanter, Rosabeth, and Ricardo Reisen De Pinho. “Banco Real: Banking on Sustainability.” Harvard Business School Case. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Publishing. Case: 9-305-100, April 13, 2005.

Lee, Deishin, and Lionel Bony. “Cradle-to-Cradle Design at Herman Miller: Moving Toward Environmental Sustainability.” Harvard Business School Case. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Publishing. Case: 9-607-003, May 30, 2007.

Robert, K. H., et al. “Strategic Sustainable Development: Selection, Design and Synergies of Applied Tools.” Journal of Cleaner Production 10 (2002): 197-214.

Plambeck, Erica, and Lyn Denend. “Walmart’s Sustainability Strategy.” Stanford Graduate School of Business Case. Stanford, CA: Stanford Graduate School of Business. Case: OIT-71, April 17, 2007.

Reinhardt, Forest. “Nestle: Sustainable Agriculture Initiative.” Harvard Business School Case. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Publishing. Case: 9-705-018, December 10, 2004.

Lee, Hau, et al. “Starbucks Corporation: Building A Sustainable Supply Chain.” Stanford Graduate School of Business Case. Stanford, CA: Stanford Graduate School of Business. Case: GS-54, May 1, 2007.

The Marine Stewardship Council (A): Is a Joint Venture Possible Between “Suits and Sandals?” International Institute for Management Development, December 2002.

Berkes, F., et al. “Globalization, Roving Bandits, and Marine Resources.” Science 311, no. 5767 (2006): 1557-1558.

Bartlett, Christopher A., Vincent Dessain, and Anders Sjoman. “IKEA’s Global Sourcing Challenge: Indian Rugs and Child Labor, Cases A and B.” Harvard Business School Case. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Publishing. Case: 9-906-414; 9-906-415, May 3, 2006.

Locke, Richard M., and Monica Romis. “Improving Work Conditions in a Global Supply Chain.” Sloan Management Review 48, no. 2 (2007): 53-62.

Locke, Richard M., Fei Qin, and Alberto Brause. “Does Monitoring Improve Labor Standards? Lessons from Nike.” Industrial and Labor Relations Review 61, no. 1 (2007): 3-31.

Elhauge, Einer. “Corporate Managers’ Operational Discretion to Sacrifice Corporate Profits in the Public Interest.” Chapter 2 in Environmental Protection and the Social Responsibility of Firms . Edited by Bruce Hay, Robert Stavins, and Richard Vietor. Washington, DC: Resources for the Future, 2005. ISBN: 9781933115030.

Hoffman, Andrew. “The Coming Market Shift: Business Strategy and Climate Change.” Chapter 7 in Cut Carbon, Grow Profits: Business Strategies for Managing Climate Change and Sustainability . Edited by Kenny Tang and Ruth Yeoh. London, UK: Middlesex University Press, 2007. ISBN: 9781904750154.

Hardin, Garrett. “The Tragedy of the Commons.” Science 162, no. 3859 (1968): 1243-1248.

Romm, Joseph. “The Hype about Hydrogen.” Issues in Science and Technology 20, no. 3 (2004): 74-81.

Sperling, Daniel, and Joan Ogden. “The Hope for Hydrogen.” Issues in Science and Technology 20, no. 3 (2004): 82-86.

Fargione, Joseph, et al. “Land Clearing and the Biofuel Carbon Debt.” Science 319, no. 5867 (2008): 1235-1238.

Searchinger, Timothy, et al. “Use of U.S. Croplands for Biofuels Increases Greenhouse Gases Through Emissions from Land-Use Change.” Science 319, no. 5867 (2008): 1238-1240.

Saillant, Roger. “What the Grand Cathedrals Tell Us about Sustainable Practice.” International Journal for Sustainable Business 11, no. 7 (2004): 17-20.

Reavis, Cate, Nick Hofmeister, and Rebecca Henderson. “Gridlogix.” Draft Case. 2008.

Miller, Katherine, and Nancy F. Koehn. “John Mackey and Whole Foods Market.” Harvard Business School Case. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Publishing. Case: 9-807-111, April 18, 2007.

Elhauge, Einer. “Sacrificing Corporate Profits.” New York University Law Review 80, no. 3 (2005): 733-869.

Scharlemann, J. P. W., and W. F. Laurance. “How Green are Biofuels?” Science 319, no. 5859 (2008): 43-44.

Meadows, Donella. “The Limits to Growth Revisited.” In The Global Citizen . Washington, DC: Island Press, 1991, pp. 29-33. ISBN: 9781559630580.

Reed, Bill. “The Integrative Design Process: Changing Our Mental Model.” Arlington, MA: LEED, April 20, 2006.

———. “A Living Systems Approach to Design.” Theme Keynote Address for the AIA National Convention, San Antonio, TX, May 2007.

Meadows, Donella. “Living Lightly and Inconsistently on the Land.” In The Global Citizen . Washington, DC: Island Press, 1991, pp. 15-17. ISBN: 9781559630580.

———. “The Limits to Growth Revisited.” In The Global Citizen . Washington, DC: Island Press, 1991, pp. 29-33. ISBN: 9781559630580.