Cultivating a Neglected Field
Seven lending organizations are teaming up to meet the large-scale needs of smallholder farms in the developing world.
Seven lending organizations are teaming up to meet the large-scale needs of smallholder farms in the developing world.
Variances in the experience of producer countries strongly affect how fair trade markets have evolved.
Overfished Ocean Strategy: Powering Up Innovation for a Resource-Deprived World is a book about business innovation and the specific principles that allow companies to navigate empty economic oceans with grace.
Emerging trends that can re-shape standard business practices.
Tapping into latent knowledge within and around us can spark ideas and inspiration for solving social issues.
The key to creating a vibrant and sustainable company is to find ways to get all employees personally engaged in day-to-day corporate sustainability efforts.
The era of corporations integrating sustainable practices is being surpassed by a new age of corporations actively transforming the market to make it more sustainable. Open access to this article is made possible by The Regents of the University of Michigan on behalf of the Erb Institute.
For much of its history, Wal-Mart’s corporate management team toiled inside its “Bentonville Bubble,” narrowly focused on operational efficiency, growth, and profits. But now the world's largest retailer has widened its sights, building networks of employees, nonprofits, government agencies, and suppliers to “green” its supply chains. Here's how and why the world’s largest retailer is using a network approach to decrease its environmental footprint – and to increase its profitability.
To do as much good as possible with limited resources, funders should look to woefully underfunded protest movements.
Using artificial intelligence to predict behavior can lead to devastating policy mistakes. Health and development programs must learn to apply causal models that better explain why people behave the way they do to help identify the most effective levers for change.