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In a challenging time, collecting and analyzing actual performance data become even more crucial
 
            
    
    
  
Operations management research identifies synergies for more efficient action
 
            
    
    
  
What emerges is a fragmented view of corporate contribution to global warming
 
            
    
    
  
Operations managers can take into consideration happiness, equity and sustainability
 
            
    
    
  
Loans that include a sweetener or penalty tied to ESG performance seem to induce more honest reporting
 
            
    
    
  
Power companies haven’t maximized the benefits of customers agreeing to short-term electricity interruptions
 
            
    
    
  
Seeing global crises as ongoing, rather than episodic, and applying modern supply-chain management
 
            
    
    
  
Behavior, other factors influence which improvements are effective
 
            
    
    
  
A verdict on organic wines, imagining a world without cross-border capital constraints, beach houses and a financial crisis
 
            
    
    
  
Standards vary and organics capture just 4% of world market
 
            
    
    
  
Homebuyers ignore warnings of rising seas; lenders keep lending
 
            
    
    
  
Do for-profit supermarket chains tolerate higher-priced co-ops?
 
            
    
    
  
1.8 million tons of PET plastic bottles end in landfills annually
 
            
    
    
  
A separate motivator: friends living in areas abundant in solar panels
 
            
    
    
  
Methods that weight efficacy, toxicity and cost improve understanding but provide no easy answers