… competitors, and new market entrants. In this rapidly evolving world, they face numerous obstacles when it comes to maintaining and creating strong environmental commitments. The circular economy represents one of the biggest environmental and economic opportunities through which companies can lower their environmental footprint and represents … resource use and minimizing waste. This framework is particularly salient for industries with limited product life cycles. Images of plastic in the ocean, particularly wrapped …
… span cognitive boundaries. The investigators have completed the qualitative data collection with Patagonia and are scheduled to conduct interviews with our second study participant, Stone Brewery. The quantitative assessment is scheduled … the qualitative analysis. Project Outcomes The exploration of self-determination theory within the theoretical development of this research led to the identification of several …
… campaign took off in 2010, when the organization targeted a GAR customer, Nestlé, with a report and a provocative video that went viral on social media sites. Nestlé quickly … spur other companies and environmental groups to embrace higher standards. But in 2013, obstacles to this goal remained. The Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), an industry … to letting plantations set aside land for conservation, since they wanted to maximize opportunities for small farmers. On the other hand, many communities had been in conflict …
… On December 10, 1998, Sun Microsystems lodged a complaint with the European Commission relating to Microsoft … of its Windows Media Player in its Windows client PC operating system. The Commission subsequently found that Microsoft (1) had dominant positions in the markets for client PC …
… its presence in the United States market. In the previous five years, Trina, a company with manufacturing and headquarters in Changzhou, China, had managed to grow rapidly by … market during 2007-10 had allowed Trina to quickly establish strong relationships with some of the continent’s leading developers of solar projects. Trina supplied modules … buyer’s market. At the same time, the oversupply was pushing prices down further so that “grid parity” – the point at which solar power could compete with conventional power sources …
… methods of information diffusion. In the first phase, a baseline survey was conducted with 3800 farming households. The survey focused on the socioeconomic characteristics of the … and the type of farmer (lead, peer, or none) that the extension agent was supposed to work with. A midline survey was conducted with all participants and focused on farmer … the Millennium Challenge Corporation in Washington, D.C., which is the routing agency for a substantial share of U.S. government aid to Malawi. Photo from Tobias von der Haar/flickr …
… differs from such an ideal. Coffee growers in most parts of the globe work at a barely subsistence level. One bad harvest (made all the more likely by the ravages of climate … times, growers have little incentive to improve their operation – they have minor contact with the roasters or customers and no knowledge of how their crops get translated into the … circle” that draws the grower, the roaster, the barista and customer together. Growers with better knowledge of the market will work to improve their crops or experiment with new …
… laid bare societal strains and inequalities in access to basic healthcare. Extreme weather events have intensified all over the planet. The sixth Intergovernmental Panel on Climate … Paris Agreement. In this survey of 2,035 global business students, conducted in partnership with the Global Network for Advanced Management and the Yale Program on Climate Change … of stakeholders, including organizations, vulnerable communities, and the environment. -Ingrid C. Burke, Carl W. Knobloch, Jr. Dean; Professor of Ecosystem Ecology at Yale School of …
… oil, it is in our cookies, our shampoos, and is used as a biofuel. As a versatile plant with efficient, high yields, oil palm, and the oil derived from it has become a … plantations. This land use change plays a major role in driving global climate change , with deforestation accounting for 20% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Much of the … and “deforestation-free” pledges at record rates, while on-the ground progress and the substance of those pledges remains to be seen. About this case In the following case …
… to end deforestation, development of peat lands and exploitation of locals not only with their own operations, but also from all of their suppliers. For environmental NGOs, the … support, Indonesia had established infrastructure to mill, refine, and export the substance. However, oil palm cultivation had created social tensions as many rural … many environmentalists believed that the agreement represented a breakthrough. The events of 2015 suggested otherwise, forcing businesses, NGOs and sympathetic government …