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Sustainability: Operational Risk Management by Any Other Name
Many companies today are exploring how to improve the success of their corporate sustainability initiatives. These companies have ambitious goals for improving performance in energy, water, carbon, waste, employee health and safety, product safety and more. Unfortunately many companies fall short on these goals, and the reasons for failure are pretty common...
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