The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand.
~ Henry Brooks Adams
Since 2001, Corporate Strategy Today has been published by AHC Group with the intent of providing today's business and government leaders with a forum of ideas, approaches, and tested methodologies to help organizations confront a variety of matters that continue to be of paramount importance to maintaining the viability and profitability of companies in the 21st century.
In past issues of CST, our writers and editors have covered topics as diverse as environmental risk reduction and remediation strategies, social leadership and corporate governance, business benchmarking, paths toward sustainable growth, and maintaining shareholder value in the face of the ever-increasing cost of doing business responsibly.
As a service to our visitors and clients, we have provided in this section of the site a comprehensive index of all past published articles from Corporate Strategy Today, with links to pages that offer a detailed synopsis and relevant excerpts from those articles. You can also purchase these publications online.
Corporate Strategy Today Articles — Listed by Author
Anderson, Deborah D.
Former Senior Associate, AHC Group; past VP of Emerging Issues, Procter & Gamble
- Avoiding Business Stumbles (from Issue 2)
Asmus, Peter
Former Senior Associate, AHC Group
- Corporate Volunteerism Comes Clean (and Comes of Age) (from Issue 13)
- Terrorism and the Ultimate Corporate Environmental Strategy (from Issue 4)
- We Need More Electricity Deregulation — Not Less (from Issue 1)
Bedsole, A. Dwight
former Director, Corporate Remediation Group, DuPont
- Financial Assurance and Long-Term Stewardship (from Issue 13)
- Remediation: A Business Perspective (from Issue 9)
Boren, Frank
Former member and Chair, Board of Directors, EH&S Board Committee, Atlantic Richfield Co.; retired President & Chairman, The Nature Conservancy
- Why Can't We Treat the Rain Forest Like the Ocean? (from Issue 2)
Brady, William
Director, Corporate Environmental Strategy, Exelon Corp.
- Defining the Environmental Compass Points for Exelon (from Issue 7/8)
Bray, Paul M.
President, P.M. Bray, LLC; former Senior Associate, AHC Group
- Living in a Glass House (from Issue 3)
- Avoiding Business Stumbles (from Issue 2)
- Global Warming: Acting in Advance of Government (from Issue 1)
Dallas, George
Managing Director & Global Practice Leader, Standard & Poor's
- Better Governance: To Avoid Risks or to Create Value? (from Issue 11)
Dickerson, Kenneth R.
Former Senior Associate, AHC Group; retired Senior VP of External Affairs, Atlantic Richfield Co.
- Resolving the Conflict Between Energy and the Environment (from Issue 4)
- Coming of Age for EH&S Professionals (from Issue 2)
- Golf Course to the Rescue (from Issue 2)
Fiksel, Joseph
Principal & Co-Founder, Eco-Nomics LLC
- Revealing the Value of Sustainable Development (from Issue 7/8)
Forbes, Robert
Director, Environment & Remediation, FMC Corp.
- FMC's Brownfield Lessons Learned (from Issue 9)
Friend, Gil
President and CEO, Natural Logic, Inc.
- Risk, Fiduciary Responsibility and "Regulatory Insulation" (from Issue 11)
Hammer, Glenn
Founder & President, The Hammer Group; former VP EH&S, Ashland, Inc.
- EHS Governance: Responding to Crisis at Ashland (from Issue 5/6)
Hilton, Paul
Social Marketing Director, Calvert Group; Co-Chair, Social Investment Research Analyst Network (SIRAN)
Kaloyeros, Alain E.
Professor of Physics & Executive Director, Albany NanoTech
- Monitoring in the Near Future (from Issue 3)
Kennard, Byron
Executive Director, Center for Small Business and the Environment
- Untapped Power of Small Business (from Issue 4)
Lambert, Gordon
Vice President of Sustainable Development, Suncor Energy, Inc.
- The Path to Sustainability at Suncor Energy (from Issue 10)
Laszlo, Chris
Partner, Sustainable Value Partners
- The New Discipline of Sustainable Value (from Issue 7/8)
Liroff, Richard A., Ph.D.
Executive Director, Investor Environmental Health Network
- Financial Risks and Opportunities from Toxic Chemicals in Products (from Issue 13)
- Financing the GEF: What Europe Can and Must Do (from Issue 12)
Loy, Frank
Former U.S. Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs; President of the German Marshall Fund of the U.S.
- Striking the Bargain Necessary for Energy Security (from Issue 4)
- Financing the GEF: What Europe Can and Must Do (from Issue 12)
MacLean, Richard
President, Competitive Environment; Director, Center for Environmental Innovation
- Lessons from Enron — Examining the Parallels to Environmental Governance (from Issue 5/6)
- Making the Move from Spin to Strategy (from Issue 3)
Minano, Dennis
Former Senior Associate, AHC Group; former VP Energy & Environment, GM
- Taking Corporate Governance Forward: Using EHS to Build Brand Value (from Issue 5/6)
Percy, Steve
former CEO of BP America; Senior Associate, AHC Group
- The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment and Corporate Strategy (from Issue 12)
Piasecki, Bruce
President & Founder, AHC Group
- Social Response Capitalism: Product Development Strategies for 21st-Century Innovators and Investors (from Issue 10)
- Automaking and the New Century: Social Response Product Development as Corporate Strategy (from Issue 7/8)
- Drama and Business Values of Corporate Benchmarking (from Issue 2)
- The Race for the Superior Car (from Issue 1)
Poole, Darryl Vernon
Chief Executive, Cambridge Institute for Applied Research
- Post Enron Considerations for EH&S Managers (from Issue 5/6)
Semans, Truman
Director for Markets & Business Strategy, Pew Center on Global Climate Change
- Succeeding in a Carbon-Constrained World (from Issue 12)
Sherman, Dave
Partner, Sustainable Value Partners
- The New Discipline of Sustainable Value (from Issue 7/8)
Smolik, Samuel L.
VP of Environment, Health & Safety, Dow Chemical Co.
- Dialogue: One Critical Route to Sustainable Development (from Issue 5/6)
Splinter, Michael R.
Executive VP and General Manager, Technology & Manufacturing Group, Intel Corp.
- Corporate Strategy Today: The Role of Design for Environment (from Issue 1)
Voorhes, Meg
Director, Social Issues Service, IRRC
- The Rising Tide of Shareholder Activism (from Issue 11)
Wales, Joan
VP, Strategy and Planning Remediation, BP
- Challenges in Governance and Innovation (from Issue 12)
Whalen, John
Partner, Sustainable Value Partners
- The New Discipline of Sustainable Value (from Issue 7/8)
