… chain of sustainable fabrication shops up and down the Northeast Coast while students at Yale SOM. You'll learn a bit about lessons learned on building a sustainable supply chain and the importance of trusting relationships with your suppliers and partners. Ben will also discuss techniques for taking an idea and making … to form working groups and discuss what steps you would need to take if you needed to make your first sale in just 1 week - and what you would subsequently do to start to ramp up sales …
… platforms like eBay and Etsy have unique business models that empower small businesses, community-based economies, and collaborative consumption. While these trends have the potential to dramatically reduce resource use, they also bring additional sustainability challenges. As the industry continues … event is part of a two-part series on Sustainability in the Technology Sector, organized by Yale’s Industrial Environmental Management student interest group, with support from SAC Big …
… heuristic, whereby they assume that companies have a fixed amount of manufacturing resources. Thus, resources devoted to “making the product green” come at the expense of making … types of perceived tradeoffs, such as healthfulness and taste. Read the paper: http://www.jstor.org/stable/info/10.1086/677841 Areas of Focus Equity and Justice Circularity … Solutions Participants George E. Newman Associate Professor of Management and Marketing at Yale School of Management george.newman@yale.edu … George E. Newman … The objective of this …
… market where you can meet the founders of 10 New England social enterprises (including 5 Yale Startups – Hugo & Hoby, Walden Hill, Tuckerman & Co., Kitchen Table Kits, and Solar … and beverages, purchase product, and hear the stories of how these companies work to make our planet a better place to live. Featuring: Hugo & Hoby: Locally crafted, sustainable … from organic cotton. Solar Youth: A non-profit organization providing urban environmental education opportunities and empowering youth from New Haven’s low income neighborhoods to …
… As technology and innovation disrupts industry, and with ever-growing global options for sourcing, how can America keep up and support a new generation of businesses? Tanya Menendez … building Maker's Row, an online directory assisting emerging and established designers in sourcing appropriate manufacturers in America. Since 2013, over 150K businesses are using the … Manufacturing in America - including trends, opportunities and challenges in bringing outsourced manufacturing back to America. Co-hosted by CBEY, Program on Entrepreneurship, …
… A woman-owned certified B Corporation that offers thoughtful, ethically and sustainably sourced, durable-reusable bags. She'll share her thoughts on creating, building and running … Lights Green Sights . Brought to you by Industrial Environmental Management and Energy Yale Environmental Women Yale Center for Business and the Environment 2667 Circularity … A woman-owned certified B Corporation that offers thoughtful, ethically and sustainably sourced, durable-reusable bags. She'll share her thoughts on creating, building and running …
… future. A key framework for these necessary changes is becoming “net positive”—in short, courageous companies will thrive by giving more than they take from our communities and ecosystems. But…what would it take for companies to actually create more … Unilever, and Andrew Winston , world-renowned sustainable business expert and graduate of Yale’s School of Environment. By telling stories of how Unilever navigated the fight for …
… in the forest sustainability sector. Please RSVP to Ruth Metzel for the lunch topic of your choice as space is very limited. How do you influence and how are you influenced by your supply chain? A conversation with: Michael Chung, Senior Manager of Product … bottom line and how do you achieve it? A conversation with: Peter Gardiner, Natural Resources Manager, Mondi and Paivi Salpakivi-Salomaa, Vice President of Environmental …
… The Yale Center for Business and the Environment presents Will Bradshaw as part of the Sabin … President of Green Coast Enterprises (GCE), a sustainable real estate company focusing on community renewal projects in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. Mr. Bradshaw will be speaking … Business Week. Mr. Bradshaw holds a Ph.D. in Regional and Urban Economics and Sustainable Community Development, Masters Degrees in City Planning and Real Estate Development from the …
… (Founder of Patagonia), and Vincent Stanley (Writer and editor for Patagonia) The Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies will host a public event to launch the new … However, the operating environment for business has increasingly moved away from encouraging companies to pursue social purposes in their business activities. “General … careers in the corporate sector, which is sponsored by the GE Foundation. Image courtesy of Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung/flickr 2225 2301 2323 Circularity Equity and Justice …