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After Rana Plaza – Do Consumers Care About Supply Chain Transparency? Our Research Shows They Do
The Rana Plaza factory collapse in Bangladesh killed over 1,100 people and revealed the horrific conditions that many garment workers endure. Yet it's difficult for apparel makers to create transparent supply chains, and the benefits to their bottom line are not always clear. Do customers really care – and are they willing to reward a company for socially responsible efforts? According to research from Tim Kraft and Yanchong Zheng at the Sloan School of Management, the answers are yes and yes.
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From Iowa to India: The Importance of Entrepreneurship in Promoting Human Dignity
Farmers in both developed and emerging countries are facing similar challenges, from water shortages and climate change to stagnant crop prices. With many Indian farmers abandoning their rural communities in favor of growing urban centers, Chris Owen, a University of Michigan student and 2018 WDI Global Impact Fellow, asks how cities will meet their residents’ need for food, water and gainful employment. He explores the work of Poornatha, a Madurai-based social enterprise that’s tackling these issues through entrepreneurship education.
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Viewpoint: Impact Investors are not Funding the Patagonias of Tomorrow—and That’s a Problem
By creating a sense of shared identity, a “cool factor,” and sensitizing parka buyers to technocratic topics like supply chain transparency, Patagonia has transformed the conversation around environmentalism and made it a defining part of many people’s identity. That shift is incredibly hard to quantify and to value in dollars and cents .
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- Environment, Investing
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Viewpoint: Is the Business World All About Greed?
What’s driving the rethink isn’t a tingling of the tycoon conscience but brutal self-interest. Millennials want to work for ethical companies, patronize brands that make them feel good and invest in socially responsible companies.
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Press release: The Renewable Power of the Mine
As renewable power integration in the mining sector gathers pace, a Columbia University study identifies financing and conflicting interests among different stakeholders as the remaining biggest roadblocks to wide-spread uptake.
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- Energy
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Viewpoint: The value of nature in smart development
Building smart requires governments and businesses to recognise nature’s role in spurring economic growth and ensuring ecological and human health, writes Maxwell Gomera.
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- Environment
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Unilever picks insider as new CEO
The appointment of Mr. Jope, a Unilever lifer who currently heads its beauty and personal-care division, comes amid the company's push under Mr. Polman to bolster that higher-margin business and pivot away from slower-growing food.
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Press release: Sistema.bio attracts funding from Hivos-Triodos Fund
Hivos-Triodos Fund joins a group world-class impact and venture capital investors that support Sistema.bio’s mission to bring technology, training and financing to the smallholder farmers around the world.
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- Agriculture, Energy, Investing