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Stellar Solutions' innovation is found in its exemplary role of women and its unique business model. Stellar solves two of the U.N.’s Sustainable Development Goals: first, it promotes women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunity for leadership at all levels of decision-making and second, it promotes job creation, entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation, and encourages the formalization and growth of small- and medium-sized enterprises.
The company founder, Celeste Ford, developed a career as an aerospace engineer when few women were in the field, and now she has paved the way for many other women in aerospace. Celeste recalled “standing alone as a female engineer in the mission control center, acutely aware of the sound of my feminine voice over the loud-speaker and the importance of delivering an impeccable job performance. I knew I needed to strive not only to advance my own career but to ensure that the doors would be open to other women who followed.” People approach problems differently and specifically in engineering, women tend to be more people oriented. Stellar uses this difference to encourage women to excel.
As the building blocks of OPTEL’s Intelligent Supply Chain platform, innovations in serialization, vision inspection and traceability solutions provide unprecedented supply chain transparency, create more efficient manufacturing processes and empower you to maximize your business performance. Optel applies these techniques to combat one of the major problems pharmaceutical companies are faced with, namely the counterfeiting of drugs, thus mainly working towards SDG 3 (Good Health and Well Being) & SDG 12 (Responsible Consumption and Production).
Reformation is a mission driven clothing brand dedicated to revolutionizing the fashion industry and bringing sustainable clothing to everyone. Their business model is both innovative and creative, allowing for real change and great success in the industry. Reformation’s sustainable initiatives cultivate a strong community of both employees and consumers that share a passion for the environment and take proactive steps to protect it. Reformation revolutionizes the industry by providing quality fabric, diverse apparel, and prioritizing its production and manufacturing while maintaining its reputation of being fashion forward.
Mate’s innovation stems from their Dress Clean initiative. This initiative focuses on clothing that is good for people and the planet. ‘Dressing clean’ involves wearing clothing made with non-toxic materials and dyes as well as organically sourced cotton (GOTS Certified Organic Cotton). All of the brand's factories are located within ten miles of their LA headquarters. Once the cotton is delivered on site everything is sewn, cut, and packaged right in LA. They are proud to have a small carbon footprint and are passionate about making ethical manufacturing a top priority. Dress Clean takes a holistic approach to sustainability by considering the full lifecycle of their clothing. Mate offers customers the option of returning their clothes after use so that they can reuse and resell those materials. The fabrics used are easy on skin and the environment.
HEALTHe Café bases its innovation around the theory that healthy food does not have to be boring or bland. HEALTHe Café provides proper proportions using only the freshest ingredients from local Louisiana sources in order to inspire and promote a healthy lifestyle and sense of good well-being.
Dance enhances the lives of children and young adolescents by allowing them to express themselves both physically and mentally. Classes are too costly for many families, but Lisa Diaz, owner of Legacy Dance Academy, strives to give children from low-income families the opportunity to dance, free of charge, so they too have access to its life-changing benefits. She believes that dance is a language of the soul and provides a safe place, almost an escape, for children to develop their minds and bodies. Through dance, they learn to feel the music and express themselves in new ways. She helps many of them to attain advanced levels of dance, and prepares them for college auditions that can lead to scholarships and the chance to pursue a college education that could prove life-changing.
Johnson & Johnson is developing a vaccine to fight Ebola. They are running test trials in western Africa, where an outbreak has been spreading since 2014. It helps solve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of Good Health and Reduced Inequalities by providing healthcare to those who do not have access to it.
First Forward is a construction consulting firm specializing in bringing education, gender equality, and streamlined operations training and program development to an industry which lacks these traits. Through innovative methodologies and discourse, Leah, CEO, founder, and entrepreneur, is able to provide companies with the ideas and support that they need to ensure long-lasting gender diversity, minimize the waste that is produced, and continue to increase the levels of education in the field. She is able to achieve this through her implementation of specialized programs, conferences, and fresh ideas offered to her clients, that when combined cause positive ripples throughout the company and ensuring they continue to progress across the board from profitability to environmental cleanliness and even helping improve their bottom line.
GoJek is the first ride-sharing business in Indonesia. It was a startup turned unicorn that has tremendously impacted everyone living in Indonesia. Many GoJek drivers used to live in poverty and suffered from not having access to an education. But now they have the opportunity to earn more than ever and experience financial stability for the first time in their lives. Each GoJek driver has become a "micro entrepreneur," Makarim said. Since joining GoJek, the quality of life for driving partners with the app has improved exponentially. The incentive plan and its policies, implemented by GoJek, has allowed ojek drivers to continually improve their families’ welfare. Many of the drivers can even afford to send their children to school now. The GoJek ecosystem supports the growth of MSME’s (Ministry of Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises) in Indonesia. 93% of MSME’s partners experienced an increase in transaction volume, and 55% of MSME’s partners have moved up in terms of turnover classification.
Newport Restaurant Group has implemented a three step initiative including recycling oil, recycling oyster shells, and composting. Through these processes they create a more sustainable community and environment, while contributing towards the UN’s Global Goals, truly giving a new meaning to clean eating.
TOMS solution is to simply provide to those who are in need through various programs and partnerships. For Aim2Flourish, we focused on TOMS shoe giving and sight giving programs. Their shoe giving programs fulfill sustainable goals 2, 3 and 4, where shoes are given to children to help provide quality education, to promote health and wellbeing, and to be integrated into programs that provide those in need with nutritious food. The sight giving program embodies sustainable development goal 3 of good health and wellbeing as TOMS invests into sight restoration programs to those in need.
CINIA is a company located in Puebla city which produces five kinds of services: cleaning, gardening, textile production, cuisine and craftwork. CINIA has 350 employees and around the 80 percent of them have a mental or motor disability and that is why this company is focused in joining these people into society through job opportunities.
Over the last few years, Lithographix has been funding research and development to economize a system of printing that equips advertisements to purify the surrounding air. Intent on keeping a strong triple bottom line, this innovation took a process once thought too expensive to scale and made it marginally more expensive than its traditional counterpart.
The Javed family hosts beach cleanups at their beachfront hotel. They welcome guests as well as community members to participate in these beach cleanup events.
Historically, populations in business schools and the financial industry have underrepresented minorities (URM). To change the diversity of the financial industry Greenleaf Trust established a scholarship program for URM majoring in finance or financial planning at Western Michigan University’s Haworth School of Business. The scholarship is only the first step in opening doors for URM in finance. Greenleaf Trust scholarship recipients receive mentorship and are eligible for internships and full-time employment post-graduation creating conditions to support the growth of a diverse workforce in the financial industry.
Maria Eitel came to Nike in 1998 amidst what would come to be known as one of the largest consumer-driven scandals ever in an effort to create a corporate social responsibility function. The company faced scathing criticism regarding its supply chain management in South Korea, China, and Taiwan as workers faced horrific working conditions with nearly non-existent wages. This crisis began an international debate that was rooted in the fundamental questions of what a company’s role within the larger scheme of social and environmental injustice is and how this role can project an image that has a positive bottom-line impact. When you think of Nike today, perhaps its Reuse-A-Shoe or Colin Kapernick campaigns come to mind - illustrating that crisis can propel a company to devise new formulas that can serve as catalysts for innovation. Their renowned social and environmental innovations became an unexpected spinoff of their famed misstep. Today, the company is responsible for a plethora of groundbreaking technologies ranging from its ColorDry system that dyes fabric using no water to its Nike Grind process that transforms plastic bottles into running shoe materials.
The founders were involved in the creation of the business. The founders wanted to create a product in the solar industry that would tell you if your solar installations are working correctly. These products tell users when and where shadows will fall so that solar modules can be placed to receive the most sunlight. Solmetric aligns with Sustainable Development Goal #7, affordable and clean energy. The solar installation industry allows for companies and homes to have clean energy and be sustainable. Solmetric products provide accurate installation of the solar panels to produce the most efficient energy.
Basilotta innovated by recycling plastic polluted sandbags commonly used in the oil fracking industry into a premium line of products called “Fracking BackPack”. The innovation is made 100% from recycled products, 100% with local materials and labor.
This product line can be defined as having a triple positive impact: economic, social and environmental.
"Fracking BackPack" products contribute with SDG 12 because it encourages circular economy and provides a triple positive impact for the Basilotta business.