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The center plans to extend its influence to the realm of executive education, offering a summer workshop in socially responsible business. We hope an entire generation of business executives will "retrofit" their experience with new perspectives on the social implications and potential of business leadership. The workshop aims to give mid-career professionals and industry leaders the capacity to reconcile social and commercial objectives. The program will also provide intergenerational networking opportunities for our MBA graduates, expanding awareness of the center and its mission in senior management circles.
Our inaugural workshop: Ethical Sourcing
4Jun2010
Globalization has made supply chains long and complex. Public, media, and government awareness of social and environmental issues has increased the risk for companies, but also created opportunities for those companies that have a strategy and a program for ethical sourcing. Hewlett-Packard, for example, believes that its ethical sourcing program provides a competitive advantage.
Join your colleagues for this 1-day workshop which will give executives an overview of an integrated strategy and program for ethical sourcing. Learn from real world case studies which will show the risks of ignoring, and the benefits of practicing ethical sourcing. Hear and interact with practitioners discussing best practices in their companies.
The workshop will be held in the LEED-certified Lokey Graduate School of Business building, which opened Aug2009. For directions and a campus map.
Who Should Attend?
The workshop is designed for executives with responsibility for ethical sourcing in their companies, and for executives whose areas of responsibility include sourcing. Participants will represent a variety of industries and companies of varying sizes. Seats are limited.
Topics
* Why ethical sourcing?
* Making the business case
* Designing the program
* Working with suppliers
* Communicating the program
* Challenges
The syllabus was prepared in consultation with Bonnie Nixon Gardiner, currently Director of Environmental Sustainability, Hewlett-Packard, and formerly H-P's Director of Ethical Sourcing, where she was responsible for:
* Vision, strategy and management of HP's worldwide Supply Chain Social and Environmental Responsibility Program.
* Overseeing a worldwide monitoring and training program with 600 suppliers and 70 staff located in Mexico, So. America, Eastern Europe, India, China, Vietnam and Southeast Asia.
* Playing a leadership role with major competitors and suppliers on a common industry code of conduct and implementation tools including risk assessment, self assessment, auditing and reporting tools.
* Active participation in multiple multi-industry stakeholder initiatives to improve global working conditions and protect the environment.
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