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Integrate Sustainability and Innovation to Find New Opportunities
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Integrate Sustainability and Innovation to Find New Opportunities

by Ivanka Visnjic, Felipe Monteiro, Michael Tushman, Ernesto Ciorra
October 2025
Intermediate to advanced
8 pages
25m
English
MIT Sloan Management Review

Overview

Companies that think about sustainability as an opportunity for innovation and growth instead of a compliance problem find ways to overcome challenges in balancing performance metrics with environmental objectives. Five innovation practices can help: reframing sustainability as a growth opportunity, partnering with mission-aligned users, seeking new collaborators, thinking long term about future needs, and creating stakeholder coalitions.

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Publisher Resources

ISBN: 53863MIT67207