Last year, Jack Ma said in an interview with Charlie Rose that the biggest business opportunities (in China) would be those that fix China’s problems, and if you have been following IBM in china they are clearly showing an interest. going back 3 years ago, IBM began working with the city of Shenyang to monitor [...]

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 [...]

Chose any coffee shop in China, look in the trash can, and what you will find is piles of needless waste. Paper cups, plastic lids, and cup sleeves. Components of a coffee ritual that required energy and materials to produce, were transported 1000s of miles to the store, were given a useful life measured in [...]

There was a time where China could legitimately stand up and say that they were “cleaner” than everyone else, and use a per capita statistic to back that information up. Over the years though, it has grown tougher because the audience (1) began adjusting for the fact that China had hundreds of millions of farmers [...]

When working with my students on the issues of sustainability, one of the fundamental facts that I am trying to impress upon them is that ultimately there is no “away”. That ultimately, the wastes that we are creating through the economic models we have developed will at some point grow so large that they cannot [...]

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 [...]

Dear Readers – it’s not everyday that I abuse my relations with you to ask for your help (by promoting what I am working on) readers, but in this case I’d like to make an exception. In short, I am now looking for 40 project partners to work with teams of MBA students from the [...]

Has anything you done improved your life? Watching America History X, there is a scene where Ed Norton ( lead character) is asked ( while lying on a gerney in prison ) if anything he had done had improved his life. He was being asked this at the movie’s transition point for Norton, who came [...]

It’s not often the same firms catalyzes me to write a piece twice, but I am going to take advantage of the opportunities that Coca Cola so generously provided this morning with a show about their glass bottle production / recovery process. Hosted by TLC, the show was essentially a “look at all the good [...]

It’s Not often that you get to see a major brand’s Sustainability Program Director fail to communicate their platform so poorly, but in the first half of the clip below that is just what happens when … tries to explain the Live Positively campaign at Coke. Question is: Is there anything to this program that [...]