Innovations in sustainability : fuel and food /
"To what extent can competition between companies encourage innovations in sustainability that have the potential to solve some of the world's major challenges? Using a series of case studies, this book pits closely related competitors against each other to examine the progress in and obst...
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Cambridge, United Kingdom :
Cambridge University Press,
2015.
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| Series: | Organizations and the natural environment.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: the path to sustainability. I. Funding sustainable startups. Leaders of the pack: Khosla Ventures and KPCB
- Scaling up: Intel Capital and Google Ventures
- II. Business models. Follow the sun: First Solar and Suntech
- Making a revolution: Tesla and Better Place
- III. The macroenvironment and industry context. Ticket to ride: Toyota and General Motors
- Blowing in the wind: Vestas and General Electric
- IV. Finding customers. Carrying that weight: General Mills and Kellogg's
- Bridge over troubled waters: Pepsi and Coca-Cola
- V. Competition between mission and non-mission based business. Consensus capitalism: Whole Foods and Walmart
- Sustainability's next frontier: DuPont and Monsanto
- Concluding observations: the journey continues.