The Epic Merger: Ecology & Entrpreneurship Join CSE and the UNC MBA and Undergradutate Net Impact clubs as we welcome John Thompson, eco-writer, Knight Journalism Fellow and author of The Environmental Entrepreneur. John has written a million words for scores of clients including IBM, Coca-Cola USA, Southern Company, Georgia Power Co., AFLAC, Equifax, Randstad North America and Parents, Time, and Money magazines. Every word, every experience helped hone a thesis the marketplace finally recognizes: the only realistic solution to sweeping ecological decline is the conversion of consumer tastes to environmentally-intelligent technologies, products, services, processes and practices. The upshot is business expansion, job growth, wealth accumulation, tax creation and an extension of the good life here on earth far into the future. Date Read More
Monthly Archives: February 2012
Procter & Gamble’s Greg Allgood Reports on Children’s Safe Drinking Water
This is the second in a series of student-written papers reporting on speakers visiting Kenan-Flagler for the MBA Strategies in Sustainable Enteprise course. By Carolyn Yuen, MBA 2013 Executive Summary Procter & Gamble’s (P&G) sustainability initiatives through the Children’s Safe Drinking Water Program, part of their Live, Learn and Thrive (LLT) program, touches one of the major human needs that can affect the livelihood of people in emerging countries, in refuge, and following a natural disaster. This not-for-profit business has been successful through a multitude of global partnerships that provide the necessary social marketing and cultural integration that P&G is not capable of maintaining due to the high initial cost of investment to educate and promote clean water to these Read More
Strategies in Sustainable Enterprise, Lessons From the Classroom
This is the first in a series of student-written submissions reporting on speakers in MBA 815B. The course is designed to increase students’ understanding of the strategies undertaken by corporations to advance the traditional goals of business—profit generation and growth—while strategically taking into account environmental and societal impacts. Adam Bruckner, MBA 2012 writes here about Marc Pons of Chapel Hill Tire Executive Summary: Several business megatrends have occurred over the last 50 years which “force fundamental and persistent shifts in how companies compete.” Chapel Hill Tire (CHT), owned by the Pons family, is a leading adopter of the next business megatrend, sustainability. By being a proactive member of the local business communities, CHT has benefited from loyal customers, superior employee Read More
New White Paper: Embracing Open-Book Management to Fuel Employee Engagement and Corporate Sustainability
Embracing Open-Book Management to Fuel Employee Engagement and Corporate Sustainability by Jessica Thomas, Center for Sustainable Enterprise Managing Director and Anne Claire Broughton, SJF Institute Co-Founder and Senior Director, in partnership with UNC Kenan-Flagler Executive Education Executive Summary When the concept of open-book management was introduced more than 30 years ago, the intent was to unleash the entrepreneur in every employee and to spur them—and their organizations—to better performance. Since then, countless organizations have opened their books and engaged their employees with positive results to their bottom lines. Organizations practicing open-book management: · Communicate the organization’s key measures of business success to all employees. · Share financial information (such as income statements, balance sheets and other key metrics) with employees; Read More