Written by Angshuman Pal, PhD Candidate, Kelley School of Business Photography by Jennifer Lux, Ray C. Anderson Center for Sustainable Business On October 25, 2025, the Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business and the Indiana University Kelley School of Business co-hosted the 2025 Annual Symposium on Environmental and Social Sustainability in Supply Chains at… Read more »
On October 6, 2025, the Institute for Environmental and Social Sustainability (IESS) at the Indiana University Kelley School of Business hosted its signature Focus Field Forum, with this year’s theme on “Innovative and Sustainable Pathways to Reduce Environmental Footprints.” The forum drew an audience of business leaders and academics from a variety of disciplines across… Read more »
On August 12, the Center for Responsible Supply Chain Management at Arizona State University’s W. P. Carey School of Business and the Institute for Environmental and Social Sustainability at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business co-organized the second webinar in the series “Rewriting the Rules: Global Trade, Sustainability, and Supply Chain Research.” In the first… Read more »
Recent global trade policy shifts and escalating sustainability concerns are reshaping the landscape for businesses worldwide, raising urgent questions for supply chain management professionals and researchers. On June 10, a webinar co-organized by the Center for Responsible Supply Chain Management at Arizona State University’s W. P. Carey School of Business and the Institute for Environmental… Read more »
By Stephanie Wang Indiana University, Bloomington This May, we had the immense pleasure of welcoming scholars, practitioners, and students from around the world to Bloomington, Indiana, for the 2025 “Innovations to Tackle Global Sustainability Challenges” conference. I had the privilege of founding the conference and chairing the program for the past two years, and this… Read more »
A team of undergraduate students from the Kelley School of Business earned first place at the Fall 2024 Smeal Undergraduate Sustainability Case Competition, hosted by the Center for the Business of Sustainability at Penn State’s Smeal College of Business. The two-round competition featured strong entries from across the country, with only six teams advancing to… Read more »
By Abigail Garrison and Kyle Springer, Class of 2025 Every year, IU sends a delegation of undergraduate, master’s, and PhD students to attend the Conference of Parties (COP) hosted by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). For the Fall 2024 semester, the 29th COP was held in Baku, Azerbaijan. Each student prepares… Read more »
As the world faces the intensifying effects of climate change, the role of infrastructure investment and innovation in building resilience has never been more critical. On November 13th, 2024, the Institute for Environmental and Social Sustainability (IESS) hosted a focused workshop that brought together experts from diverse sectors to explore solutions to this urgent challenge…. Read more »
Written by Ling Li, PhD student, Kelley School of Business On October 19, 2024, the Foster School of Business at the University of Washington and the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University collaboratively hosted the Third Annual Symposium on Environmental and Social Sustainability in Supply Chains. Building upon the success of the previous two… Read more »
In September 2024, the Kelley Institute for Environmental & Social Sustainability (IESS), in collaboration with Kate Gaertner, founder and CEO of TripleWin Advisory, will launch Cultivate: Personal Sustainability for Professional Growth. This 10-week online course begins with a discussion on how we understand and define personal sustainability, identifying personal values and linking them with sustainable… Read more »