Adam J. Sulkowski
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- COVID-19: What's Next? Future of work, business, law, and education (plus, some blockchain & transparency & inspiration)
- #ClimateAction: why our business school's founder would be excited about the opportunities
- 50 years of green entrepreneurship with Paolo Lugari, founder of Las Gaviotas in Colombia, whom Gabriel Garcia Márquez called “inventor of the world”
- 20 Years Ago He Gave Cannibals Forks. Now John Asks: Where’s the Disruption?
- Packing tip--but really life advice--try it!
- Investing in Cuba: 1 key step Trump is unlikely to change
- Investing in Cuba: 1 key step Trump is unlikely to change
- Roger Babson’s Founding Principles: Key to Sustaining into a Second Century
- City Sustainability Reporting: An Essential Best Practice
- City Sustainability Reporting: An Essential Best Practice
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Author Archives: Adam Sulkowski
Scalia: big gov’t liberal interpreter of Constitution gone; real conservative pragmatism now may have a chance.
Unusual and unnecessary written commentary issued prior to hearing arguments in landmark cases. Alleged vulgar gesticulations on the steps of a church. “Quack quack” as a closing comment when defending his controversial refusal to recuse himself from a case involving … Continue reading
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Warsaw’s Latest Sustainability Report: thanks to those who made it happen (and why every city should do something like this)
Warsaw – capital of Poland and home to +1.7 million residents – recently published its latest sustainability report (a press release, executive summary, and the entire Warsaw Sustainability Report are available in English and in Polish / po Polsku). The … Continue reading
Posted in cities, COP19, COP21, ESG reporting, green, GRI, integrated reporting, sustainability, sustainability reporting, sustainable business, UN Climate Conference, UN Climate Summit, Uncategorized, Warsaw, Warszawa
Tagged city, climate change, COP19, G4, GRI, sustainability, Sustainability reporting, sustainable business, sustainable development, The City of Warsaw, UN Climate Change Conference, Warsaw, Warsaw Integrated Sustainability Report, Warsaw Sustainability Report, Zintegrowany Raport Zrównoważonego Rozwoju Warszawy 2013
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“Taking the blinders off our beasts”
Since about 2005 I’ve kicked around this phrase: “Sustainability reporting is like taking the blinders off our great beasts – helping our institutions see that eliminating harms and improving societal and environmental conditions is actually in their own interest.” It took … Continue reading
5 questions to ask when leaving a secure job for a fresh challenge: thanks UMass, hello Babson!
First: THANKS for a great decade, UMass Dartmouth! The mission of providing accessible higher education is a great one. Thank you students, alumni, colleagues, and those who gave the freedom to work on meaningful projects that involved students and research … Continue reading
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2 Recent Huffington Post items
In case you missed them, here are links to two of my recent opinion pieces in the Huffington Post: Does Pope Francis and his “Eco-Encyclical” matter? My answer: maybe. As illustrated by the example of Pope John Paul II inspiring the Solidarity … Continue reading
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Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (T-TIP), and the original intent of Investor-State Dispurte Settlement (ISDS)
Alarm and criticism has been published about the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (T-TIP). Among other well-founded concerns about the process of negotiating the trade treaties, what they may include, and their impacts, is the fact that … Continue reading
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Flipping Pyramids: anyone else think these ought to be inverted?
This post is a long time coming. There are at least two conceptual pyramids involved in our research and teaching in business schools that, while very useful, may be overdue for turning on their heads. Here they are, top-to-bottom: Carroll’s Corporate … Continue reading
A Great Big Pragmatic Tax Idea From An Alumnus Entrepreneur
An alumnus entrepreneur of our MBA program, Kevin Pelissier, recently brought up an interesting idea about how taxation could be improved. Given that it’s April 15, it seems appropriate to briefly share two big themes that emerged from the … Continue reading
Country data: emitting carbon not essential for wealth, development & happiness
This chart shows average development (HDI), income (GNI), emissions (CO2 per capita), and happiness (Gallup data) within groups of countries identified using model-based cluster analysis (click here for a draft of the full paper). The least developed group on average generated just 5% of the carbon emissions … Continue reading
Top 10! Gee thanks :) but where are other governmental sustainability reports?
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) just published its 5th Assessment Report (AR5). We’re now a quarter-century (about 25 years) into regularly summing-up thousands of peer-reviewed scientific studies. It’s striking that the language of the report is already partly in the … Continue reading
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