Corporate Social Responsibility

Oct 30, 2013

Natural Gas is Cheaper and More Sustainable for Transportation….Just Ask Truckers!

Today’s story in the Wall Street Journal discusses how more operators of the largest truck fleets in the US are in the process of converting their fleets over to natural…

Sep 11, 2013

Auditing, visibility and collaboration: The keys to a socially responsible supply chain

In the September issue of the Supply Chain Management Review, Andreas Wieland from Berlin Technical University and I have published a thoughtpiece on the application of social responsible criteria to…

Sep 2, 2013

Corporate supply chain social responsibility in the news

Today’s New York Times has a front-page story on how supply chain inspections of factories have become a vital link in the supply chain of overseas production. An extensive examination…

Aug 18, 2013

Another Fall semester brings a new batch of 50 SCRC company projects…

As we go into our 2013 fall semester, the SCRC team is pulling together the list of project summaries from our 15 corporate partners. This is indeed a busy time…

May 8, 2013

So Your Supply Chain is Banning Bangladesh….and Going to Cambodia?: "The Ugliest Race to the Bottom"

In our ongoing discussion of labor and human rights violations in the supply chain, we’ve discussed in prior posts the problems that occurred in Bangladesh resulting in over 700 dead.…