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Stuart L. Hart

Professor, Steven Grossman Endowed Chair in Sustainable Business; University of Vermont's Grossman School of Business

Stuart L. Hart is one of the world’s top authorities on the implications of environment and poverty for business strategy. According to Bloomberg Businessweek, he is “one of the founding fathers of the ‘base of the pyramid’ economic theory.” He is the Steven Grossman Endowed Chair for Sustainable Business, Professor, and Co-Director of SEMBA at the University of Vermont’s Grossman School of Business, S.C. Johnson Chair Emeritus in Sustainable Global Enterprise and Professor Emeritus of Management at Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Management, where he founded the Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise. He also serves as Distinguished Fellow at the William Davidson Institute (University of Michigan), Founder and President of Enterprise for a Sustainable World, and Founding Director of the Emergent Institute in Bangalore, India.

Previously, he was the Hans Zulliger Distinguished Professor of Sustainable Enterprise and Professor of Strategic Management at the University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler Business School, where he founded the Center for Sustainable Enterprise and the Base of the Pyramid Learning Laboratory. He also taught corporate strategy at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business and was the Founding Director of the Corporate Environmental Management Program (CEMP), now the Erb Institute’s Dual Master’s Program.

Professor Hart has published over 70 papers and authored or edited seven books, with over 20,000 Google Scholar citations. His work has appeared in leading scholarly journals, including Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, and Management Science, as well as leading practitioner journals, such as Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, Stanford Social Innovation Review, Academy of Management Executive, Strategy+Business, and Foreign Affairs.

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Cascade Engineering’s Sustainability Crossroads: Staying True to Purpose
The Cascade Engineering family of companies, an award-winning leader in sustainable business practices, faces the challenge of maintaining its commitment to sustainability while exploring strategic growth opportunities. The case focuses…
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CF Industries’ New Strategy: Turning Business Pressures into Fuel for Sustainable Growth
This case follows CF Industries, a major fertilizer manufacturing company, its CEO Tony Will, and his leadership team in preparing for an annual strategy review and board meeting in the…
Publication Date: 05/28/2024 Product ID: 4-194-907
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Tesla's Evolution: Mass Market Electric Vehicles?
Tesla finds itself at a critical juncture as it grapples with intensifying competition in the U.S. electric vehicle (EV) market and potentially waning consumer demand. The company, known for disrupting…
Publication Date: 05/28/2024 Product ID: 2-135-828
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Sustainability at De Beers: Transforming the Diamond Industry
This case explores transformative business redesign for sustainability and social impact at De Beers, a longtime global leader in diamond manufacturing. De Beers (and the diamond industry at large) have…
Publication Date: 04/25/2024 Product ID: 4-351-794
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General Motors’ EV Dilemma: Navigating to Emissions-Free Vehicles
In 2021, General Motors (GM) announced an ambitious goal to sell only zero-emission cars and light trucks by 2035. This declaration was part of a broader initiative to achieve carbon…
Publication Date: 04/03/2024 Product ID: 6-603-705
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Telecom Transformed: How Telenor's Move into Bangladesh Unlocked the Company's Future
This case contains a rich description of one company’s experience in international expansion, beginning in the 1990s and continuing to the present. It focuses on how Telenor’s early experience bringing…
Publication Date: 11/20/2018 Product ID: 2-794-372
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Iqbal Quadir on Sustainable Entrepreneurship: Getting to the Root of the Problem
This case traces the evolution and development of Iqbal Quadir’s entrepreneurial efforts from his childhood in Bangladesh to his experiences in the United States both as a student and later…
Publication Date: 03/31/2017 Product ID: 8-531-081
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Monsanto Company (Spanish): Búsqueda de Sostenibilidad (A)
Este caso explora la estrategia de negocios de la empresa Monsanto siguiendo principios de sostenibilidad y su consiguiente transicion de productor de quimicos a una gran compañia de “ciencias de…
Publication Date: 06/28/2010 Product ID: 1-429-093
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Monsanto Company (Spanish): Búsqueda de Sostenibilidad (B)
Después de dos años de controversia en relación a sus cultivos genéticamente modificados y sus futuros planes de biotecnología en agricultura, Monsanto se enfrenta con el fracaso de una fusion…
Publication Date: 06/23/2010 Product ID: 1-429-094
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SC Johnson and the Greenlist Opportunity
SC Johnson, a leading consumer products goods company, developed a patented process, Greenlist, to assess the environmental impact of its raw materials. The case study takes the reader through SC…
Publication Date: 05/29/2009 Product ID: 1-428-778
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