1: Assess the main motivations for engagement in sustainable business practices.
2: Compare the relationship between technology and innovation in sustainable business.
3: Develop a plan to address the political, regulatory, or technological environments that impact organizations’ supply chain sustainability and strategies.
Prompt: Review the case entitled “Chapter 13 Case: Strategic Mission-Driven Sustainable Business: “Stonyfield Yogurt” ” in the Sustainable Business Case Book. Analyze the case responding to the following questions:
1: List three to five main contributing factors in Stonyfield’s success. Discuss how these factors led to Stonyfield’s success.
2: What, if any, specific aspects of Stonyfield’s contributing factors, sustainability mission, strategies, and approaches have the greatest potential for transferability to other businesses?
3: Throughout the case there are several examples where a sustainability action has positive and negative implications. Discuss the powdered milk and PLA cup decisions in terms of features and benefits.
4: Are Gary Hirshberg’s “hard-headed” conclusions little more than moral platitudes or are they really hard-earned, practical, positive (e.g., what is), and normative (e.g., what should be) lessons on how to globally scale sustainable products benefit of the plant, people, and profits?
5: Find two or three examples of how other companies have applied Hirshberg’s conclusions on a global scale to benefit the planet.
Corporations are important elements of the communities in which they operate. As a corporate citizen, an organization should be moved to interact with and contribute to its local, regional, national, and global communities, especially as related to environmental, health, and business issues.
6: Describe Stonyfield’s resulting corporate partnerships. Note operational strategies, tools, or methods used to foster corporate citizenship within the local and extended corporate community.
7: Explain how sustainability principles are demonstrated by management and encouraged throughout the organization.