This post, from Cam Hoang, Counsel and Assistant Secretary, General Mills,  is the sixth in a six-part series based on Where Sustainability Lives, a new study that indicates that organizational structure matters to sustainability performance.

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The study confirmed many of my suspicions about the correlation between organizational structure and external recognition of sustainability performance – I agree with the authors that more work is needed.  Beyond the question of where leadership for sustainability resides in an organization, I would be curious about how various departments in the horizontal structure collaborate to make sustainable practices happen.