Sustainable Business

Technological innovation moves fast, but sometimes businesses can move slowly. Or even not at all. Take for example the news from Reuters that the Japanese government officially, and finally, decided last month to cease the use of floppy disks for things like business and regulatory reporting, among the over 1,000 other required use cases. The last, new floppy disk was manufactured …

Japan Ditched Floppy Disks, but Can Businesses Ditch Paper Checks? Read More »

Penn Carey Law’s Entrepreneurship Legal Clinic contributes to economic development with a focus on underrepresented entrepreneurs and social impact startups. Since its founding in 1981 in collaboration with Wharton, the Entrepreneurship Legal Clinic (ELC) at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School has helped launch eateries, artists and arts organizations, fashion ventures, health science enterprises, environmental businesses, …

Supporting sustainable startups and underrepresented entrepreneurs Read More »

ESG reporting platform developed on IBM’s cloud offered to Ricoh partners. Ricoh New Zealand is offering to ease the pain of environmental, social and governance (ESG) reporting through a new alliance offering CorEST software from local IBM partner CorPlan. The move also further bolsters the biggest and fastest growing part of Ricoh’s local business – …

‘It’s just good business’: Ricoh NZ teams with CorPlan to tackle ESG pain points Read More »

Businesses have never been under so much pressure to deliver on sustainability but balancing it with profitability is becoming increasingly complex in a world of geopolitical unrest and disinformation. “We once had a client who said, ‘you can’t be green if you’re in the red.’ I think that’s a really important way to think about …

The growth at all costs era is over: How can businesses be sustainable and hold bottom line? Read More »

Update to 2025 Roadmap carries forward unfinished targets from the original plan and outlines new steps toward circular design, based on insights from 130+ US Plastic Pact Activators. Today, the US Plastics Pact released its latest strategic plan to help companies change how they design, use and reuse plastics in their packaging. Roadmap 2.0 is an actionable plan designed …

US Plastics Pact Unveils Bold New Roadmap to Transform the Use of Plastics Read More »