History teaches everything, including the future.
~ Alphonse de Lamartine
(1790–1869)
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 Alphabetically by Title
- Automaking and the New Century: Social Response Product Development as Corporate Strategy
- (from Issue 7/8)
By Bruce Piasecki — President & Founder, AHC Group - Avoiding Business Stumbles
- (from Issue 2)
By Deborah D. Anderson, Ph.D. — former Senior Associate, AHC Group; past VP of Emerging Issues, Procter & Gamble;
and Paul M. Bray, Esq. — President, P.M. Bray, LLC; former Senior Associate, AHC Group - Better Governance: To Avoid Risks or to Create Value?
- (from Issue 11)
By George Dallas — Managing Director & Global Practice Leader, Standard & Poor's - Challenges in Governance and Innovation
- (from Issue 12)
By Joan Wales — VP, Strategy and Planning Remediation, BP - Climate Change Report Shareholders Request: Progressive Action + Practical Steps + Strong Relationships = Positive Experience
- (from Issue 12)
By Skiles Boyd — VP, Environmental Health and Safety, DTE Energy - Coming of Age for EH&S Professionals
- (from Issue 2)
By Kenneth R. Dickerson — former Senior Associate, AHC Group; retired Senior VP of External Affairs, Atlantic Richfield Co. - Corporate Strategy Today: The Role of Design for Environment
- (from Issue 1)
By Michael R. Splinter — Executive VP and General Manager, Technology & Manufacturing Group, Intel Corp. - Corporate Volunteerism Comes Clean (and Comes of Age)
- (from Issue 13)
By Peter Asmus — Former AHC Group Senior Associate - Defining Environmental Risks and "Uncertainty" Under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
- (from Issue 9)
By Donna H. Sandidge, MBA, ARM, CES — National Practice Leader, Marsh, Inc. - Defining the Environmental Compass Points for Exelon
- (from Issue 7/8)
By William Brady — Director, Corporate Environmental Strategy, Exelon Corp. - Dialogue: One Critical Route to Sustainable Development
- (from Issue 5/6)
By Samuel L. Smolik — VP of Environment, Health & Safety, Dow Chemical Co. - Drama and Business Values of Corporate Benchmarking
- (from Issue 2)
By Bruce Piasecki — President & Founder, AHC Group - EHS Governance: Responding to Crisis at Ashland
- (from Issue 5/6)
By Glenn Hammer — Founder & President, The Hammer Group; former VP EH&S, Ashland, Inc. - Financing the GEF: What Europe Can and Must Do
- (from Issue 12)
By Frank E. Loy — Former U.S. Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs; President of the German Marshall Fund of the U.S. - Financial Assurance and Long-Term Stewardship
- (from Issue 13)
By A. Dwight Bedsole — former Director, Corporate Remediation Group, DuPont - Financial Risks and Opportunities from Toxic Chemicals in Products
- (from Issue 13)
By Richard A. Liroff, Ph.D. — Executive Director, Investor Environmental Health Network - FMC's Brownfield Lessons Learned
- (from Issue 9)
By Robert Forbes — Director, Environment & Remediation, FMC Corp. - Global Warming: Acting in Advance of Government
- (from Issue 1)
By Paul M. Bray, Esq. — President, P.M. Bray, LLC; former Senior Associate, AHC Group - Golf Course to the Rescue
- (from Issue 2)
By Kenneth R. Dickerson — former Senior Associate, AHC Group; retired Senior VP of External Affairs, Atlantic Richfield Co. - Lessons from Enron — Examining the Parallels to Environmental Governance
- (from Issue 5/6)
By Richard MacLean — President, Competitive Environment; Director, Center for Environmental Innovation - Lessons in Social Responsibility for the Value Chain from Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Inc.
- (from Issue 10)
By John Winter — President, Social Responsibility Solutions, LLC - Leveraging Global Citizenship Functions in the 21st-Century Corporation
- (from Issue 10)
By Sam Piazza — Director of Business Practices, Hewlett Packard - Leveraging Intangible Assets: How a Rating Can Help Measure and Communicate Performance
- (from Issue 11)
By Helena Barton — Business Development Manager (USA),
DNV/CoreRatings - Living in a Glass House
- (from Issue 3)
By Paul M. Bray — President, P.M. Bray, LLC; former Senior Associate, AHC Group - Making the Move from Spin to Strategy
- (from Issue 3)
By Richard MacLean — President, Competitive Environment; Director, Center for Environmental Innovation - The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment and Corporate Strategy
- (from Issue 12)
By Steve Percy — former CEO of BP America; AHC Group Senior Associate - Monitoring in the Near Future
- (from Issue 3)
By Michael Carpenter — Staff Scientist, Albany NanoTech;
and Alain E. Kaloyeros — Professor of Physics & Executive Director, Albany NanoTech - The New Discipline of Sustainable Value
- (from Issue 7/8)
By Chris Laszlo, Dave Sherman, and John Whalen — Sustainable Value Partners - The Path to Sustainability at Suncor Energy
- (from Issue 10)
By Gordon Lambert — Vice President of Sustainable Development, Suncor Energy, Inc. - Post Enron Considerations for EH&S Managers
- (from Issue 5/6)
By Darryl Vernon Poole — Chief Executive, Cambridge Institute for Applied Research - Publish and Be Damned
- (from Issue 3)
By Hewson Baltzell — President, Innovest - The Race for the Superior Car
- (from Issue 1)
By Bruce Piasecki — President & Founder, AHC Group - Remediation: A Business Perspective
- (from Issue 9)
By A. Dwight Bedsole — former Director, Corporate Remediation Group, DuPont - Resolving the Conflict Between Energy and the Environment
- (from Issue 4)
By Kenneth R. Dickerson — former Senior Associate, AHC Group - Revealing the Value of Sustainable Development
- (from Issue 7/8)
By Joseph Fiksel, Ph.D. — Principal & Co-Founder, Eco-Nomics LLC - The Rising Tide of Shareholder Activism
- (from Issue 11)
By Meg Voorhes — Director, Social Issues Service, IRRC - Risk, Fiduciary Responsibility and "Regulatory Insulation"
- (from Issue 11)
By Gil Friend — President and CEO, Natural Logic, Inc. - Risk Management Responsibilities Under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
- (from Issue 9)
By John Heuberger — Attorney, Piper Rudnick - Social Research Analysts and the New Significance of Socially Responsible Investing
- (from Issue 11)
By Paul Hilton — Social Marketing Director, Calvert Group;
Co-Chair, Social Investment Research Analyst Network (SIRAN) - Social Response Capitalism: Product Development Strategies for 21st-Century Innovators and Investors
- (from Issue 10)
By Bruce Piasecki — President & Founder, AHC Group - Striking the Bargain Necessary for Energy Security
- (from Issue 4)
By Frank Loy — Former U.S. Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs; President of the German Marshall Fund of the U.S. - Succeeding in a Carbon-Constrained World
- (from Issue 12)
By Truman Semans — Director for Markets & Business Strategy, Pew Center on Global Climate Change - Taking Corporate Governance Forward: Using EHS to Build Brand Value
- (from Issue 5/6)
By Dennis Minano — Former Senior Associate, AHC Group; former VP Energy & Environment, GM - Terrorism and the Ultimate Corporate Environmental Strategy
- (from Issue 4)
By Peter Asmus — Former Senior Associate, AHC Group - Untapped Power of Small Business
- (from Issue 4)
By Byron Kennard — Executive Director, Center for Small Business and the Environment - We Need More Electricity Deregulation — Not Less
- (from Issue 1)
By Peter Asmus — Former Senior Associate, AHC Group - Why Can't We Treat the Rain Forest Like the Ocean?
- (from Issue 2)
By Frank Boren — Board of Directors & Chair, EH&S Board Committee, Atlantic Richfield Co.; retired President & Chairman, The Nature Conservancy