Archive for November, 2010

The Role of Academia to Drive Leadership Towards Sustainability

Saturday, November 13, 2010 23:36 Comments Off

  In their 2010 Good Purposes report (download here), Edelman conduct 7000 interviews across multiple countries to understand consumer sentiment as it related to the role of business and sustainability. It was a report, sponsored by Pepsi, that was high lined by a convincing statistic that “86% of global consumers believe that business needs to [...]

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Expo materials reborn at YK Pao School

Friday, November 12, 2010 1:13 Comments Off

Very happy to learn today that one of the teams I was working with last year through the CEIBS Responsible Leadership course was able to successfully embed their project and launch it today. Focused on diverting EXPO materials for the landfill, their first client is the YK Pao school in Shanghai. Full details are below. [...]

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Getting One Person to Take One Step

Wednesday, November 10, 2010 23:27 Comments Off

Last night, while speaking at the Wokai Drinks for a Better World event, I chose to highlight the impact that a single person taking a single step can have on the environmental, economic, societal, and community issues we face. In doing so, I went through my personal journey to establish and support organization that were [...]

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