ITM’s 2nd Biennial Sustainable Global Sourcing Forum – 2017
On March 21, 2017, the Department of International Trade & Marketing (ITM), Jay and Patty Baker School of Business and Technology, in partnership with faculty from the Departments of Cosmetics...
View Article2017 African Women’s Entrepreneurial Program (AWEP) Showcase
In July 2017, WorldChicago (www.worldchicago.org) and Meridian (www.meridian.org) hosted 30 African Women Entrepreneurs, who were visiting the U.S. as part of the U.S. Department of State...
View ArticleChildren’s Rights are Human Rights
Often times when addressing international trade and sustainability issues, various U.N. initiatives and policies, such as the UN Sustainable Development Goals...
View ArticleHarvesting Prosperity
On March 2, 2019, I attended the National Fair Trade Campaigns Conference in Chicago. Paul Rice, who is the Founder and CEO of Fair Trade USA, presented a Keynote session where he discussed his recent...
View ArticleIt belongs to Them…let’s give it Back
Some cities across the U.S. are marking the second Monday in October as Indigenous Peoples Day. Indigenous People are “inheritors and practitioners of unique cultures and ways of relating to people...
View ArticleCompassion and Fashion
The following two empirical studies that were published in peer-reviewed scholarly journals address the role that compassion plays in the consumption of Fair Trade fashion. Dr. Shireen Musa was the...
View ArticleAnalyzing Specific Attributes of Fair Trade Consumers
The following empirical study was published in the Business and Professional Ethics Journal, a peer-reviewed scholarly journal, and it builds upon the consumer-based scale development from Dr. Shireen...
View ArticleThe Importance of Creating a “Mindful Intelligent Leadership” Course and...
This is the first page of the article titled The Importance of Creating a Mindful Intelligent Leadership Course and Integrating Mindfulness into the Sustainability Business Curriculum A Literature...
View ArticleThe Role of Emotional Imagery Exposure on Fair Trade Consumption and on...
This is the first page of the article titled The Role of Emotional Imagery Exposure on Fair Trade Consumption and on Compassion. To read the full article titled The Role of Emotional Imagery Exposure...
View ArticleThe Ultimate Recycling? Positing the Effect of Past Life Belief on Fair Trade...
This is the first page of the article titled The Ultimate Recycling? Positing the Effect of Past Life Belief on Fair Trade Consumption – A Preliminary Study. To read the full article titled The...
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