Sustainability Concepts
Chapter Concepts
The Good, Bad, and Ugly
Survey Conclusions
Drivers/ Influencers
100
Nau was a sustainable company, but which two factors caused the company's demise.
What is overexpansion and overspending
100
Concept that balances people, place, and profit concerns in the company.
What is Triple Bottom Line or three-legged stool.
100
A company that is working with the World Wildlife Federation to advance technologies and practices for wastewater reclamation due to issues raised by certain communities because of the water tables being depleted by the bottling operations.
What is the Coca-Cola Company
100
What percentage of survey respondents stated that their companies were already addressing sustainability in some way.
What is 92%
100
A leader group that assists companies to understand the value of sustainability.
What is The Open Compliance and Ethics Group (OCEG)
200
True of False: Sustainability has stayed relatively constant throughout the years.
False
200
A concept that allows for companies to showcase their efforts to improve profits as well as minimize their environmental impact.
What is sustainability.
200
A certain company's oil spill in the gulf is a glaring reminder that businesses must be responsible for more than bottom line results.
What is BP
200
The two definitions of sustainability Experts use.
What is Brundtland Commission and triple bottom line.
200
True or False: Some drivers of sustainability include not only customers, but also investors.
True
300
Time is always a concern for businesses, and there are two concepts that creates tension for strategic decision making.
What is profitability and sustainability
300
A concept that has encountered a lot of current media "buzz", but is not a new concept just one that has re-emerged.
What is green
300
One of Walmart's suppliers that are focusing there time on a compaction strategy, which includes selling smaller packages of more concentrated products.
What is Proctor & Gamble
300
Since sustainability is an increasing influence on consumers, companies are starting to involve themselves with a concept that helps claim the "goodness" of a product within marketing.
What is green- washing
300
A major barometer for investors as they evaluate potential investments in companies for their sustainability practices as well as their social and environmental responsibility.
What is The Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes
400
Sustainability concerns have expanded from financial viability to _______.
What is resource availability
400
True or False: Many companies are forced into considering sustainability reactively, due to the increase in media buzz.
False
400
An online retail and auction site that makes it easy for people all over the world to exchange and reuse goods rather than throwing them away, thereby lengthening the lifespan of these products so they don’t wind up as trash.
What is EBay
400
True or False: The question how will sustainability change management is inevitable for companies.
True
400
According to the survey, there are three drivers survey respondents said cause an issue with a significant impact on the company.
What are governmental legislation, consumer concerns, and employer interest.
500
In the 1970s it was believed that for a corporation to be sustainable, executives conducted their business a certain way in order to _____.
What is maximize profits
500
an emerging management practice that tracks a product's ecological negatives, quantifying its environmental and public health downsides at each link in its supply chain.
What is Life cycle Assessment (LCA)
500
According to Newsweek: Out of Johnson& Johnson, Dell, Sprint, and IBM who was ranked first in the greenest company of 2011? This ranking was based on comparing companies actual environmental footprints, management, and reporting practices.
What is IBM
500
A concept that explains something that the firm does better then its competitors that gives it an edge in serving customers’ needs and/or maintaining mutually satisfying relationships with important stakeholders
What is competitive advantage.
500
Enhanced productivity, efficiency, resource or asset maximization, are all examples of what type of decision making? These decisions help the company become more profitable
What is sustainable
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