Fair Trade is a movement that has existed for quite awhile now. You’ve probably heard about it in the news, and possibly at local stores and coffee shops. The movement was established in order to improve the rights of farm workers in impoverished areas of the world, as well as to improve communities and contribute … Continue reading
A current problem facing the world today revolves around the over-exploitation of natural resources and the self-interest of corporations. The manufacturing industry is a prominent consumer of a large amount of natural resources. It plays a large role in the exploitation of these resources. The exploitation has a variety of negative environmental and social impacts. … Continue reading
Water. About 70% of the Earth’s surface. Yet, less thank 1% of that is drinkable. A human can survive for a month or more without eating food, but only about a week without drinking water. Water is a necessity for all kinds of life on Earth. However, 3.4 million people die each year from a … Continue reading
Happily healthy Whole Foods really has it all? I will soon find out. In Paper 2, I will investigate Whole Foods Market and its mission, business model, and relationship between what the company portrays as truly important to its mission and what its actions are really telling customers. After reading Josée Johnston’s article called “The … Continue reading
In this course thus far the class has grappled with corporate ideologies, practices, and goals. Stakeholder and shareholder ideologies debate over what the goals of the organization should be, and who should have the power to reinvest in society: upper management or the stockholders? Jensen proposes that focusing on long-range goals like sustainability will keep … Continue reading
The blog that I read was about Sustainability, something that I find to be very interesting and crucial to the development of business and business practices going forward. A very exciting development has occurred with the opening of The Global Water Council in Milwaukee. Right away this article caught my attention because of the inclusion … Continue reading
ExxonMobil utilizes its business strengths to invest in communities and enact social programs that are in tune with global needs. Where the company operates it pursues impactful projects that serve to better the region. For example, in Bangalore, India ExxonMobil works to preserve its natural resources by developing technology to harvest its runoff and unused … Continue reading
