Though my time at CEIBS teaching a course on responsible leadership I have been fortunate to meet peers at other schools and within the corporate world who are looking to push their student (employees) forward on issues of society, economics, and the environment. It is a process that at times feels like climbing a sheer [...]

For the last three years, I have been fortunate to be working at the China Europe International Business school as an Adjunct Professor of Sustainability and Responsible Leadership. In this time I have facilitated a course that over 600 students have been required to take, and why it is different (and so much fun) is [...]

With the conversations around systems and sustainability still largely a moving a target that bounces between emotional polar bears and destructive weather systems, I honestly cannot think of a better time for a focus on understanding the systems that exist in our economy, the impact of our economy on our environmental systems, and taking steps [...]

  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 [...]

I know it has been a while since my last post, but I wanted to let everyone know that I have kicked off my second round of teaching a course at CEIBS on sustainability and responsible leadership.  It is a project based class that bridges lectures, research, and projects, and I am hoping to see [...]

With a rising level of awareness about the role of consumers in the overall environmental picture rising, it would make sense that we would not only begin seeing studies about how consumers felt about green, and whether or not they are willing to buy “green”, but begin to see companies take steps to understand what [...]

Following up on my previous posts on the role that academic institutions can play in developing leaders with a “sustainable mindset” and toolbox, I wanted to highlight four articles that Anthony D. Cortese recently wrote for Fast Company where he took a look at some of the trends occurring on US campuses. Part 1:Higher Education’s [...]

Hello everyone. As some of you know, for the last 9 months I have had the privilege of teaching a project based course to 193 MBA students on sustainability at the China Europe International Business School.  Split into 35 teams, they have been focused their research projects across 25 separate issues, and for the last [...]

Following up on some earlier posts about driving sustainability through education, McKinsey has loaded an interview with the Blair Sheppard, dean of Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. Encouraging to see these shifts, although I personally would like to see more schools really integrate sustainability into their core curriculum.  That, rather than just capture those [...]

Following the recent holiday, I found the above tree that mixed the new (haibao) with the old (a packet of Double Happiness) as a strange reminder of just how far we have yet to go.