"I would definitely recommend it" - 4th Annual Smeal MBA Sustainability Case Competition
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"I would definitely recommend it." Participants from University of Washington' team after video recordings of testimonials at Smeal's...


Erik Foley
- Nov 30, 2017
Bored Meeting? Never with our Sustainability Advisory Board
We are having our fall meeting of the Smeal Sustainability Advisory Board tonight and tomorrow. We are very fortunate to have such a...


Erik Foley
- Nov 28, 2017
Can you lend Starbucks $500 million? Coffee giant issues world's first Sustainability Bond
"Money talks...The global bond market is the show. It's a $60 trillion market." -Drew Wolf, Starbucks VP and Treasurer That is what...

Erik Foley
- Nov 27, 2017
Leader Profile: University of Exeter Business School
Recently top of the charts among sustainable MBA programs and featuring a range of sustainable business classes and research activities,...


Erik Foley
- Nov 22, 2017
From scratch on Thanksgiving
My pies, fresh from the oven. Carl Sagan famously said "if you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you first need to invent the...


Erik Foley
- Nov 21, 2017
Cool company: Fairphone, worlds first ethical, modular phone
I love this ambitious, heartfelt and smart effort to create the world's first modular and ethical mobile phone. The folks at Fairphone...


Erik Foley
- Nov 21, 2017
Food Waste Interview with Penn State students
Have you worked to address food waste on campus before? Yes, I have worked on this topic and my staff was also focused on food waste both...

Erik Foley
- Nov 19, 2017
Keynote: The 8 Dysfunctions of Sustainability
An excerpt from a recent keynote in New York: Dive in for more insights and to subscribe. "Sustainable development" was born from a...

Erik Foley
- Nov 16, 2017
Warning: too much entrepreneurship is not good for you
I am into it but I have to admit....we might be going overboard on entrepreneurship education. Or we might at least explore the possible...

Erik Foley
- Nov 15, 2017
Paul Hawken visits Penn State: Q&A --> Q&UA
Paul Hawken's book The Ecology of Commerce was a life changer for me 20 years ago. (The same book changed Interface's Ray Anderson's life...

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