{"id":276,"date":"2017-01-03T06:47:27","date_gmt":"2017-01-03T11:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/semba\/?p=276"},"modified":"2017-01-03T06:47:27","modified_gmt":"2017-01-03T11:47:27","slug":"from-the-web-is-this-the-year-smart-businesses-tackle-the-sdgs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/2017\/01\/03\/from-the-web-is-this-the-year-smart-businesses-tackle-the-sdgs\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Web: Is this the year smart businesses tackle the SDGs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenbiz.com\/tag\/sustainable-development-goals-sdgs\">Sustainable Development Goals<\/a>\u00a0read like the best-intentioned New Year\u2019s resolutions: End poverty; promote peace and justice; cooperate and partner with others for the greater good; and so on. Makes you wonder if the resolutions will stick.<\/p>\n<p>Yet corporations that have begun to pursue the SDGs see business advantages unfolding that will reap benefits in 2017 and beyond. They are expanding markets, attracting talent and eliminating some risk from operations.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-277\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/semba\/files\/2017\/01\/Screen-Shot-2017-01-03-at-5.45.00-AM.png\" alt=\"screen-shot-2017-01-03-at-5-45-00-am\" width=\"682\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/01\/Screen-Shot-2017-01-03-at-5.45.00-AM.png 682w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/01\/Screen-Shot-2017-01-03-at-5.45.00-AM-300x157.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/01\/Screen-Shot-2017-01-03-at-5.45.00-AM-500x262.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 682px) 100vw, 682px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft, Google, Unilever, Tata, Siemens and others are seeing expanded markets, new recruits and risk reduction. Learn <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenbiz.com\/article\/year-smart-businesses-tackle-sdgs\">more<\/a><\/strong> &gt;&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Sustainable Development Goals\u00a0read like the best-intentioned New Year\u2019s resolutions: End poverty; promote peace and justice; cooperate and partner with others for the greater good; and so on. Makes you wonder if the resolutions will stick. Yet corporations that have begun to pursue the SDGs see business advantages unfolding that will reap benefits in 2017 and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/2017\/01\/03\/from-the-web-is-this-the-year-smart-businesses-tackle-the-sdgs\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;From the Web: Is this the year smart businesses tackle the SDGs?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3919,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[425358,427000,425248,8582,425622],"tags":[17503,41478,4433],"class_list":["post-276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pop","category-from-the-web","category-green-leap","category-leadership","category-renewables","tag-entrepreneurship","tag-innovation","tag-sustainability"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8b9n0-4s","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3919"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":278,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions\/278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}