Decision Making in Sustainability: Case Studies
Learning Objectives
• Become familiar with some of the basic issues raised in teaching cases across the area of sustainability
• Identify, research and develop solutions to problems raised in cases
We learned in the previous chapters that sustainability in the business context involves complex trade-offs—for example, choosing between short-term costs and long-term benefits or between low-risk established technologies and higher-risk (and perhaps better for the planet) new technologies. In business, the facts and circumstances of any given situation often will differ, depending on the industry, the state of the economy, and the core values of the company and its executives. We live ...
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