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...While the Edun offshoot and its student partners are focused on the bottom line, the business is most concerned with the economic well-being of those at the lowest rungs of the supply chain. The shirts are 100% African "from grower to sewer," according to the company's literature. The student vendors, all volunteers, clearly have not signed on for their own monetary gain. Says senior Andy Mitchelides, a marketing major at Miami U. and the president of Edun Live on Campus: "We feel honored to be part of something this cool. Eventually we'll look back and be able...
...million homes. The real power of Wal-Mart to drive environmental change, however, rests in its sheer size, by which it can influence the behavior of the more than 60,000 companies, large and small, that stock its stores. The "Wal-Mart price"--the corporation's drive for the lowest possible cost, at all costs--ensured that only the leanest companies would survive to do business with it. By demanding energy efficiency and environmentally friendly practices from its partners--such as reducing packaging waste or selling only sustainable seafood--Wal-Mart could help start a green wave across...
...study examined over 29,000 specific transactions in which public companies gave grants to outside directors, and determined that in over nine percent of the cases, the grant occurred when the stock price was at its lowest in a given month or a quarter...
...most inspired political acts of 2006 occurred on Oct. 8, when newly elected Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe stepped off a plane in Beijing. Relations between China and Japan were at their lowest ebb in decades, largely because Abe's predecessor Junichiro Koizumi had repeatedly visited the Yasukuni Shrine, which honors Japan's war dead, including 14 Class-A war criminals. Abe's momentous trip to China broke a political stalemate between Asia's two leading powers and portended closer economic and diplomatic ties between these historical rivals...
Yale, at 50.3 percent, had the second-highest proportion of non-tenured faculty among the Ivy League universities, while the University of Pennsylvania boasted the lowest proportion, at only 16.1 percent...