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Educate Stakeholders For Better Buy-In

Educate Stakeholders For Better Buy-In

Theo Lamperis, a 2021 Harbert graduate in supply chain management who was named graduation marshal for his class, jumped straight into a job as a circular economy business analyst at BBB Industries. And that jump was largely due to comprehensive research he conducted...
Critical Thinking Crucial to Entrepreneurship

Critical Thinking Crucial to Entrepreneurship

Here at Auburn, we think about entrepreneurship, innovation and entrepreneurship education in multiple dimensions. First in starting a new for-profit or non-profit business. Another dimension is the introduction of new products or services in an existing organization,...
Understanding Sustainability GivesJob Seekers an Edge

Understanding Sustainability GivesJob Seekers an Edge

In the 1993 book “The Ecology of Commerce” (revised in 2010), Paul Hawken wrote about the growing social, economic and environmental crises facing humanity and declared that business and industry is the only sector of society large enough, powerful enough and flexible...
‘Green’ Building Helps Keep Companies in the Black 

‘Green’ Building Helps Keep Companies in the Black 

In the summer of 2008, a study I authored with two colleagues (Jonathan A. Wiley and Ken H. Johnson) was published by the Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics in their Online First section. It appeared in their print version sometime later.  The title of the...
Keystrokes Carry Carbon Costs

Keystrokes Carry Carbon Costs

As webmaster for the Harbert College of Business, I am keenly aware of something most of us never even consider: the enormous and growing environmental impact of our everyday web browsing, email activity, media streaming and all aspects of the digital world....