Vol. III No. 10  December 2010

Featured Topic
Sustainability in Context: The Fashion Industry We are pleased to launch a new teaching module that looks at many issues related to sustainability through the lens of the fashion industry.  The module includes links to over 80 teaching cases, reports and other materials that explore these issues.  Fashion Futures 2025: Global Scenarios for a Sustainable Fashion Industry, produced by Forum for the Future and Levi Strauss, served as the initial inspiration for this Module.  Visit the teaching module, and see several highlighted teaching materials at right.	Teaching Module: The Future of Fashion Report: Fashion Futures 2025 Case Study: Deja Shoe Case Study: Levis Strauss & Co. - Global Sourcing

First Mover Fellow Co-Authors Publication on Sustainable Investing

2009 First Mover Chris McKnett, VP at State Street Global Advisors, has coauthored an important publication on sustainable investing, which SSGA says is moving steadily toward the mainstream.

Click here to read the publication, and see the article at right on the call for First Mover Fellow nominations.

Nominate a Beyond Grey Pinstripes Survey Scoring Fellow!

The Beyond Grey Pinstripes business school survey continues data collection from MBA programs around the world, currently working with 167 participating schools. As the end of January deadline approaches, we are currently recruiting our 2011 class of PhD Scoring Fellows who aid in our biennial review of innovative curricula submitted by our schools.

If you would like to nominate a business PhD student as a Scoring Fellow with the Aspen Institute's Center for Business Education, please contact us directly with the nomination and candidate's CV.  Please visit our site for more information.

New This Month at CasePlace.org 

• Case Study: Facebook - Beacon and Privacy
• Article: Teams, Not Stars are the Key to High Performance
• Report: The Future of Finance

The Aspen Institute's Center for Business Education encourages future business leaders to innovate at the intersection of corporate profits and social impacts.  Our goal is bold and long-term: to radically re-orient the MBA degree to embrace the principles of corporate citizenship and sustainability.

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	Explore the Center's entire Publications Library, including journal articles written by Aspen Institute staff, speeches, audio recordings, and a variety of thought leadership pieces...

An Interview with Levi Strauss & Co.'s 

Michael Kobori

Michael Kobori is Vice President for Social and Environmental Sustainability at Levi Strauss & Co.  Upon the launch of our new teaching module on fashion and sustainability --which includes a report on the future of fashion produced in a partnership between Levi's and the Forum for the Future FFF)--we asked Michael some questions about sustainability at Levi's.

What made Levi Strauss & Co. decide to partner with Forum for the Future in producing this report?  Our goal in creating the Fashion Futures 2025 report was to challenge our executives and designers as well as the industry and consumers to think about how to create a more sustainable future. Forum for the Future has a long history of providing sustainable strategies for industries to think about the future, making them t the ideal collaborator. We were proud to lend our sustainability, business and apparel experience to their extended network of thought leaders around the world.

Read more from our interview with Michael Kobori.

Call for First Movers Fellowship Nominations

We are looking for nominations of mid-career business professionals recognized as high potential talent to participate in Aspen's First Movers fellowship program. Successful candidates will have demonstrated passion and capacity for working at the intersection of business growth and positive social and environment-al change and will work in core business functions within their companies.  (Candidates from non-profit organizations will not be considered.)  The deadline for nominating candidates is January 28, 2011. 

Click here to nominate a candidate, or here for more information.

Featured Cases: Employee Ownership

Check out two cases on CasePlace.org that target employee ownership strategies at technology firms.  "Heavy Construction Systems Specialists, Inc." focuses on a company that manufactures software for the highway construction industry, while "KCI Technologies" looks at a multi-discipline engineering firm. 

These and many more teaching materials on employee ownership are available at our Curriculum Library on Employee Ownership.

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