In February, I spent several days on EARTH University’s campus in the Guacimo region of Costa Rica, not far from Limon. I was there to visit family working with the university, and I had heard EARTH was a significant supplier of bananas to Whole Foods Market in the...
Two and a half years ago on April 24th, 2013 an eight-story building housing five garment manufacturers collapsed in Dhaka, Bangladesh killing 1,129 people and injuring 2,515 more. The building’s top floors had been constructed without permits and to cut costs it was...
VERGE is a yearly conference offered by GreenBiz (originating in 2011) and has been gaining considerable momentum. In fact, it has outgrown its current location and will be moving to a bigger Silicon Valley location for next year’s event. This year’s conference...
I had the opportunity to spend three months in Brazil in the summer of 2015 as part of an Erb internship with Imaflora, a Brazilian organization that works with agricultural and forestry certification. Working with students from the University of Michigan (SNRE),...
Today’s global supply chain creates economic opportunity overseas and cost savings for U.S. businesses, but comes with limited visibility and control of the working conditions where goods are sourced and manufactured. At a recent gathering sponsored by the Erb...
Firestone: Crises Across the Decades (pdf abstract) Purchase the full report on GlobaLens (Case study #1-429-412) - published 02/2015, 12 pages By: Andrew Hoffman Description: Ed Garcia, president and managing director of Firestone Liberia, is relishing the moment,...
Tea and Sustainability at Unilever: Turning Over a New Leaf (B) (pdf abstract) Purchase the full report on GlobaLens (Case study #1-429-423) - published 02/2015, 8 pages By: Andrew Hoffman Description: Unilever has successfully rolled out an initiative to sustainably...
Intel: Undermining the Conflict Mineral Industry (pdf abstract) Purchase the full report on GlobaLens (Case study #1-429-411) - published 02/2015, 20 pages By: Andrew Hoffman Description: Intel Corporation is a leading manufacturer of components found in nearly all...
By: Andrew J. Hoffman, in Corporate Stewardship: Organizing for Sustainable Effectiveness, (Sheffield, UK: Greenleaf Publishing): 228-248 (with John Ehrenfeld) (2015) ABSTRACT: Sustainability has become mainstream in both management practice and management research....
David and I stood in a small room in front of a special machine used to visually sort coffee beans after they are harvested and dried. We listened carefully as the machine’s operator explained (through our translator) that this machine ensures only the highest quality...