 | | | | | Andy Ruben, Vice President for Corporate Strategy and Sustainability for Wal-Mart presents how Wal-Mart Stores, inc. is embracing Green practices that favor both the environment and the bottom line. Beyond that, Ruben describes other ways that Wal-Mart is encouraging its associates to establish and embrace a sustainable way of life.
This is the second of three segments from a recent Organizational Champions event. Be sure to also checkout segments one and three from this series.
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| | The NPD Group has been tracking the eating patterns from a sample of the American population for over 25 years. Originally concentrating on the away-from-home habits with its CREST® service, the firm began collecting in-home trends in 1980 with its National Eating Trends® service. Over the years, these two services have become some of the primary sources of information on consumer behavior in the United States.
Harry Balzer, vice president of the NPD Group and national expert on food and diet trends, has been following the eating and drinking patterns in America, which is used by food industry leaders to make smarter business decisions and gain fact-based insight. Balzer is widely known within the industry as a main source for unbiased market information.
Balzer received recognition from SELF magazine for being one of 25 people in the United States who has changed the way the nation eats, cooks and thinks about food. He appears regularly as an expert commentator on television news programs and has been extensively quoted in The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The New York Times, Fortune, Forbes, Time, Newsweek, and a host of other business and trade publications. IN addition, Balzer speaks about the latest food-related trends in the U.S. and several food industry events, including the National Restaurant association Show, FMI, International Home and Housewares Show, and the National Retail Federation. He also speaks regularly at prominent universities including Northwestern University, Cornell University and the University of Pittsburgh.
Harry Balzer is a graduate of Duquesne University and makes his home in Barrington, Illinois.
This is video from the 7th Annual Emerging Trends in Retailing Conference sponsored by the Sam M. Walton College of Business’ Center for Retailing Excellence ( CRE ) at the University of Arkansas. This was a one day conference that took place in the John Q Hammons Convention Center in Rogers, Arkansas on October 11, 2007. The theme of the conference was Sustainability in Retail. A portion of proceeds from this content will go to support the Center for Retailing Excellence at the University of Arkansas.
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| | Jib Ellison assists senior leadership in creating new, innovative, wealth-creating strategies. Through an unprecedented angle of attack, he helps clients create visions that have the power to transform markets. He helps CEOs understand sustainability as a business proposition, align behind a business plan and commit to the actions necessary to capture content experts and organizations to deliver the best solutions to his clients.
Ellison’s work includes designing and overseeing organization-wide transformation processes for Fortune 50 companies, building high-performance leadership teams, improving cross-functional teamwork, strengthening corporate culture to deliver results and one-on-one coaching for CEOs.
Recent clients include Wal-Mart, Kleiner Perkins, Environmental Defense, Conservation International, Vodafone, McKesson, Gap, Inc., The Home Depot, Nokia, YMCA and Barclays Global Investors.
A class V river guide, Ellison has led white-water expeditions on five continents.
This is video from the 7th Annual Emerging Trends in Retailing Conference sponsored by the Sam M. Walton College of Business’ Center for Retailing Excellence ( CRE ) at the University of Arkansas. This was a one day conference that took place in the John Q Hammons Convention Center in Rogers, Arkansas on October 11, 2007. The theme of the conference was Sustainability in Retail. A portion of proceeds from this content will go to support the Center for Retailing Excellence at the University of Arkansas.
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| | Adam Werbach is highly regarded as one of the world’s experts in sustainability. At age 23, Werbach was elected as the youngest president ever of the Sierra Club, the oldest and largest environmental organization in the United States. Under his leadership, the Sierra Club helped create the largest new national park in the country and protect over 3 million acres of public land. Werbach left the Sierra Club and founded Act Now in 1998 to engage the corporate and media world in sustainability. Act Now currently provides sustainability consulting to a range of companies including Wal-Mart, Procter & Gamble, Nature Valley and Sony BMG.
By 2004, Werbach had become critical of the pace of change of the environmental movement and delivered the controversial speech “Is Environmentalism Dead?” Werbach is a highly sought-after speaker and writer who has appeared on TV shows such as The O’Reilly Factor, Charlie Rose, and Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher. He is a contributing editor to In These Times magazine and author of Act Now, Apologize Later, published by Harper Collins in 1997. Werbach currently serves on the six-member board of directors of Greenpeace International.
This is video from the 7th Annual Emerging Trends in Retailing Conference sponsored by the Sam M. Walton College of Business’ Center for Retailing Excellence ( CRE ) at the University of Arkansas. This was a one day conference that took place in the John Q Hammons Convention Center in Rogers, Arkansas on October 11, 2007. The theme of the conference was Sustainability in Retail. A portion of proceeds from this content will go to support the Center for Retailing Excellence at the University of Arkansas.
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| | Adam Werbach, Jib Ellison, and Jonathan Johnson answer questions about the impact of sustainability on the retail industry. The moderator of this segment is Andy Murray, the CEO of Saatchi & SaatchiX.
This is video from the 7th Annual Emerging Trends in Retailing Conference sponsored by the Sam M. Walton College of Business’ Center for Retailing Excellence ( CRE ) at the University of Arkansas. This was a one day conference that took place in the John Q Hammons Convention Center in Rogers, Arkansas on October 11, 2007. The theme of the conference was Sustainability in Retail. A portion of proceeds from this content will go to support the Center for Retailing Excellence at the University of Arkansas.
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| | Deloitte Consulting explores sustainability and its effects on the business and retailing world.
This is video from the 7th Annual Emerging Trends in Retailing Conference sponsored by the Sam M. Walton College of Business’ Center for Retailing Excellence ( CRE ) at the University of Arkansas. This was a one day conference that took place in the John Q Hammons Convention Center in Rogers, Arkansas on October 11, 2007. The theme of the conference was Sustainability in Retail. A portion of proceeds from this content will go to support the Center for Retailing Excellence at the University of Arkansas.
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| | Kevin Roberts is the New York-based CEO Worldwide of ideas company Saatchi & Saatchi, part of Publicis Groupe, the world’s fourth-largest communications group. Before joining Saatchi & Saatchi in 1997, Roberts held leadership positions globally with premier brands including Gillette, Pepsi and Procter & Gamble. Under Roberts’ leadership, Saatchi & Saatchi has grown revenue year by year and achieved record creative awards. Clients include Procter & Gamble, Toyota, Lexus, General Mills, Visa International, Ameriprise, JCPenney, Wendy’s and Novartis.
Renowned for his vision and acumen, Roberts’ pursuits span business, sports, art, mentoring and education. He is the author of three Saatchi & Saatchi books (Lovemarks: The Future Beyond Brands, The Lovemarks Effect: Winning in the Consumer Revolution, and Sisomo: The Future on Screen) and is co-author of Peak Performance – Business Lessons from the World’s Top Sports Organizations. The iconic All Black rugby team is a favorite Lovemark and Roberts is a former director of the New Zealand Rugby Football Union and current chairman of the USA Rugby board of directors.
Roberts is the inaugural CEO in Residence at Cambridge University’s Judge Business School in the U.K. and professor of Sustainable Enterprise at the University of Waikato Management School in New Zealand. Roberts’ leadership appointments range from membership of the Publicis Groupe Management Board and business ambassador for the New Zealand United States Council, trustee of the Turn Your Life Around Trust, an Auckland charity that mentors at-risk teenagers.
This is video from the 7th Annual Emerging Trends in Retailing Conference sponsored by the Sam M. Walton College of Business’ Center for Retailing Excellence ( CRE ) at the University of Arkansas. This was a one day conference that took place in the John Q Hammons Convention Center in Rogers, Arkansas on October 11, 2007. The theme of the conference was Sustainability in Retail. A portion of proceeds from this content will go to support the Center for Retailing Excellence at the University of Arkansas.
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