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CENTER FOR BUSINESS
AS AN AGENT OF WORLD BENEFIT
 
 

PRACTICE

Sustainable Value is a way to capture new business opportunities by fully integrating eco-innovation and social entrepreneurship into the industry supply chain. It is an enabler of business success, creating unique and inimitable source of competitive advantage.

 

ABOUT BAWB PRACTICE:

BAWB helps leading companies, associations, industries, and regions address today's rapidly evolving managerial and organizational challenges through applied sustainability work, international forums, and a range of projects, including a partnership with the UN Global Compact.

 

Other initiatives include:

  • The 2009 Global Forum: “Managing as Designing in an Era of Massive Innovation”
  • Reforming the US energy sector with the Sustainable Value Institute
  • Discerning how sustainability can drive growth for Cleveland and the surrounding regions
  • Launching a National Peace Academy
  • Creating a Sustainability Index
  • Transforming the Amazon from a climate hindrance to economic prosperity     
  • Promoting business-led energy and health reforms in Africa
  • Redesigning management education globally with the UN Principles of Responsible Management Education, conceived at the 2006 Global Forum

FEATURE:

World Bank, CNN International recognize BAWB work in Nigeria
June 2008 - BAWB colleague Dr. Joseph Adelegan developed a sustainable solution for cleaning up Nigeria's cassava waste, a public health threat. The zero-emissions technology of a biogas plant will treat the cassava waste; the gas produced by breaking down organic waste of the cassava will drive micro turbines at a low cost and produce safe, reliable, off-grid lighting for over 2,000 poor families and create environmentally safe organic fertilizer for many low-income farmers in the region. Dr. Adelegan's project has received a $250,000 World Bank grant and has been featured in a documentary titled "Principal Voices. Economics of Energy", on June 21-22, 2008, on CNN International.  Read More.