Lawrence Jackson - Environmental Sustainability for Cheap
For Wal-Mart, social responsibility includes keeping products affordable to the millions of low- and middle-income consumers who form the bulk of its customer base. In this University podcast, Lawrence...
View ArticleMaking Supply Chains Socially Responsible - Measuring Corporate Social...
Companies around the world are trying to figure out how to evaluate their performance--as well as that of their suppliers--on a host of corporate social responsibility (CSR) dimensions in areas such as...
View ArticleHannah Jones - Corporate Social Responsibility and Innovation
Nike has traveled the full range of the corporate social responsibility movement, from the campaigning days when it was a poster child for all things to do with poor working conditions through the era...
View ArticleMaking Supply Chains Socially Responsible - Environmental Sustainability in...
The electronics industry is on the forefront of the movement to improve social responsibility and environmental sustainability across manufacturing and supply chains through collaboration. Industry...
View ArticleMaking Supply Chains Socially Responsible - Environmental Sustainability and...
Environmental sustainability is now an imperative for supply chains, and buyers and procurement professionals have more power than ever to exert pressure on suppliers to provide green products....
View ArticleMaking Supply Chains Socially Responsible - Promoting Sustainability in the...
Starbucks has developed guidelines for creating and maintaining a sustainable supply chain, which it calls Coffee and Farmer Equity (C.A.F.E.) Practices. These coffee-buying guidelines help the company...
View ArticleTony Prophet - Social Good and Environmental Sustainability at HP
With energy costs on the rise and the U.S. government expected to push for reduced carbon emissions, environmental sustainability has become a market imperative for Hewlett-Packard. Speaking at...
View ArticleGary Smith - Doing Well and Doing Good in the Supply Chain
Timberland, the footwear and apparel company headquartered in New Hampshire, is putting good old New England values to work to integrate socially responsible management practices throughout the value...
View ArticleMaking Supply Chains Socially Responsible - Fresh Approaches to Supply Chain...
How does an organization not only promote green and sustainable products but also conduct business in a socially responsible way? At the Stanford 2008 Responsible Supply Chains Conference, leaders of...
View ArticleDan Henkle - Gap's Progress on Corporate Social Responsibility
The Gap monitors 2,000 garment factories in 50 countries and conducts about 4,000 inspections annually to make sure its suppliers are operating under ethical guidelines. Dan Henkle, the executive who...
View ArticleSocially and Environmentally Responsible Supply Chain conference - Strategies...
Not a week goes by without a product safety incident splashed across the headlines. As companies face increasing layers of suppliers, the task of monitoring the many links in the chain becomes a...
View ArticleHau Lee - Boosting Profits Through Social Responsibility
Companies can indeed make money while operating in socially responsible and environmentally friendly ways. It just takes what supply chain expert Hau Lee calls the Triple-A approach--having agility,...
View ArticleThe Colemans - Improving Healthcare Distribution in Africa
In the late 1980s, when Barry and Andrea Coleman noticed that motor bikes intended for use in the delivery of health care in Africa were not being used because they had broken down -- in some cases...
View ArticleDawn Vance - Corporate Social Responsibility in Supply Chains
For Nike, corporate social responsibility has become a business driver rather than an obligation. In this university podcast, Nike's director of global logistics, Dawn Vance, talks about how the...
View ArticleJoao Paulo Ferreira - Environmental Sustainability in Supply Chains
How can a company put environmental sustainability into its DNA? In this university podcast, Joao Paulo Ferreira, VP of operations and logistics, talks about Natura Cosmetics Brasil's supply chain and...
View ArticleMichael Kobori - Corporate Social Responsibility with Cotton Farms
With corporate social responsibility as a business imperative, Levi Strauss has evaluated how well its suppliers are doing on making cotton production more sustainable. In this university podcast,...
View ArticleResponsible Supply Chains Conference - Social Enterprise in Food Supply Chains
In the arena of social enterprise, a California collaboration is creating a high yield. In this university podcast, executives Diane Del Signore and Maisie Greenwalt share how Community Alliance with...
View ArticlePaul Auerbach - Disaster Response: Lessons Learned from Haiti
When disaster strikes somewhere in the world, what kind of leadership, nonprofit management, and supply chain expertise are needed? In this university podcast, Stanford professor of surgery, Paul...
View ArticleAbhijit Upadhye - When Corporate Responsibility Means Going Local
McDonald's has migrated to India, and with it, a commitment to corporate social responsibility. In this university podcast, executive Abhijit Upadhye discusses how the introduction of the "golden...
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