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About Enterprise for a Sustainable World

Enterprise for a Sustainable World (ESW) is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to effectively addressing the world’s most pressing social and environmental problems through a new and more inclusive form of capitalism: Sustainable Enterprise.

Visit our Initiatives page to learn more about ESW's work in the Base of the Pyramid and our Papers page to learn more about ESW's thought leadership with Sustainable Enterprise.

Founded in 2006, ESW is based in Ithaca, NY.

 

 


[ESW Staff] [ESW Board of Directors]

ESW Officers & Staff

Stuart L. Hart
President & Co-Founder

Dr. Stuart L. Hart, is the President of Enterprise for a Sustainable World. He is also the Samuel C. Johnson Professor of Sustainable Global Enterprise at the Johnson School of Management at Cornell University. Previously he was the Hans Zulliger Distinguished Professor of Sustainable Enterprise at the Kenan Flagler School of Business and Co-Director of the Center for Sustainable Enterprise at the University of North Carolina. He was also the founding Director of the Corporate Environmental Management Program at the University of Michigan. His institution building, research, consulting, and writing reflects passion for a new brand of capitalism that treats the citizens of the world with compassion and fairness and the environment as our most critical long-term asset. His recent book, Capitalism at the Crossroads has been recognized as a ground breaking contribution to the dialogue on sustainable enterprise and addressing the needs of the Base of the Pyramid.

Gordon A. Enk
Vice-President of Strategy & Co-Founder

Dr. Gordon A. Enk is the Vice President for Strategy for the Enterprise for a Sustainable World. He is also the Principal of Partners for Strategic Change and the President of the Research and Decision Center. His experience includes: Creating the Center for Economic and Environmental Studies at the Institute on Man and Science (Rensselaerville, NY); Serving as the Director of New Product Development and New Ventures at International Paper Co.; Leading the Strategic Services Division as a Vice President of H. A. Simons, Ltd. (Vancouver, BC); Serving as the Vice President of Strategy and New Venture Development at Industra, Inc. (Seattle, WA). He has also led major efforts focused on developing an understanding of how to develop a participatory process of strategic change. He served on the Advisory Board for the Corporate Environmental Management Program at the University of Michigan and the Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Center for Sustainable Enterprise of the University of North Carolina. He has been an Executive-in-Residence while teaching at the University of Michigan and taught courses on Sustainable Enterprise at the University of Washington, University of Michigan and the University of North Carolina. He currently serves as Chairman of the Executive Committee for the Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise at the Johnson School of Management of Cornell University.

Patrick Donohue
Senior Consultant

Patrick Donohue is a Senior Consultant for Enterprise for a Sustainable World (ESW) and a member of the original BoP Protocol Pilot team in Kenya.  At ESW, Patrick helps guide Protocol teams in the field as well as being responsible for the development of the BoP-Protocol.org and e4sw.org web sites. Patrick has a B.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University and an MBA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he served as President of UNC's MBA Student Association and was the recipient of 2004 Kenan-Flagler Integrity Award, in part for his design and launch of a new executive leadership program for student leaders.

Patrick has managed and developed innovative technology programs for Rockwell International, Apple Computer, and NASA, as well as consulting for a number of technology start-ups and entrepreneurs. At Rockwell, Patrick led a team which was awarded the 1999 Rockwell International Chairman's Team of the Year Award, and his work for NASA was nominated in 2002 for a Turning Goals into Reality Award. Patrick’s work in the BoP has taken him deep into low-income communities in Kenya and Brazil, and he is the founder of BRINQ, an initiative to promote the innovation and toy design capabilities of poorer communities in Latin America.

Tatiana Thieme
Senior Consultant

Tatiana Thieme is a Senior Consultant to ESW and was part of the original Kenya BoP Protocol pilot team in Kenya. She earned a B.A. from Cornell University in Anthropology and Performance Studies in 2000, and a MSc. from the London School of Economics in Law and Anthropology in 2004. Following her graduate studies, she has worked as a research assistant and writer for both the law and anthropology department at Cornell and has been editing for the Political and Legal Anthropology Review.

Tatiana’s experience working in international business development in Europe for three years, combined with her more recent interest in the role of institutions in livelihoods of marginalized groups has encouraged her to combine her interests in anthropology, human rights, and business development. Her current focus lies in the role corporations can play in promoting indigenous enterprise in low-income communities, and in helping develop and implement the methodologies of applied research in the area of sustainable enterprise.

 

ESW Board of Directors

Stuart Hart

[see above]

Gordon Enk

[see above]

 

Patricia Hart

 

Scott Johnson

Scott E. Johnson is Vice President – Global Environmental and Safety Actions at SC Johnson & Sons.  In this role, he provides global leadership to facilitate the development and implementation of environmental and safety policies, strategies and actions which build upon the Corporation’s eco-efficiency efforts of the 1990’s and commitment to responsible environmental management.  In this role, Scott has also initiated sustainable development cross-sector partnership programs in the U.S. and Africa.  Scott has over 20 years of sales and marketing experience with SC Johnson.  Previous assignments include Managing Director of Corporate New Products & Technologies, Director of Sales & Marketing in North America Professional, Director for Global Business Development in Worldwide Innochem and Category Manager in Air Care/Floor Care in North America Consumer Products Marketing.

A native of Wisconsin, Mr. Johnson earned both a BBA degree and MBA degree in Marketing from the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business.  

Scott maintains delegate status to the World Business Council for Sustainable Development.  In addition he is a member of the International Leadership Council of the Nature Conservancy, as well as the Business & Biodiversity Council of Conservation International.  Most recently, Scott was appointed to the Executive Council for the Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise (CSGE) at Cornell's Johnson School of Management.

Scott is a member of the Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies Board of Visitors.   He also sits on the Center for Brand & Product Management Advisory Board associated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison, School of Business.

Paul Tebo

Paul V. Tebo is President - The Tebo Group, an organization focused on helping companies integrate sustainability as a framework for business growth through research, teaching and consulting.  He also holds appointments as Visiting Executive in the Johnson School of Management at Cornell and as Robert W. Craig Fellow at The Keystone Center.  He retired in April 2004 as Corporate Vice President - Safety, Health and Environment for the DuPont Company. His 35-year career spanned professional and management roles in research, engineering, strategic planning, and as head of two billion-dollar global business units.

Dr. Tebo had global responsibility for integrating safety, health and environmental excellence as a core business strategy, and for positioning and representing DuPont externally. He created and installed DuPont’s "The Goal Is '0'" approach to environmental stewardship, and helped shape the DuPont commitment to "Sustainable Growth" including ambitious renewable energy and resource targets for 2010.  He also created and managed DuPont’s external global Biotechnology Advisory Panel. 

Dr. Tebo received the 2000 Environmental Leadership Award from Tomorrow Magazine and the Conservation Leadership Award from The Conservation Fund.  In 2002, Dr. Tebo received the Spirit of Keystone Award from The Keystone Center and, in 2004, received DuPont’s first-ever Sustainable Growth Lifetime Achievement Award.

Hans Zuiliger

Dr. Hans R. Zulliger is cofounder and President of the Stiftung Drittes Millennium, a private educational foundation promoting meaningful survival of mankind and the biosphere. He is also a member of the investment council of the Sustainable Asset Management (SAM) Private Equity Group which invests in small businesses promoting sustainable products and services. He studied Nuclear Engineering at Stanford University in California, where he earned his Ph.D. in Nuclear Instrumentation.

During the energy crisis in 1973 he was a cofounder of one of the first solar energy companies in California. He has held various management positions in international high-tech companies in the US as well as in Switzerland. He has served on several government commissions in energy research and technology.

He has been elected to the International Advisory Board of the Alliance for Global Sustainability, a joint effort of the ETH Zürich, MIT Boston, Tokyo University and Chalmers University in Sweden to promote sustainability in education and research

 

 

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