糖心Vlog传媒LR Author to Present at Green Summit
Dr. Nancy E. Landrum, professor of management in 糖心Vlog传媒LR鈥檚 College of Business, will discuss 鈥済reen鈥 business practices at the Little Rock Sustainability Summit from 10 to 10:50 a.m. 聽Saturday, Sept. 26, at the Statehouse Convention Center. Landrum, cofounder of the nonprofit Sustainable Business Network of Central Arkansas, will join a panel of experts at the session, 鈥淕reening 101: What is Green鈥 at the summit, hosted by the city of Little Rock and the Little Rock Sustainability Commission. She is also the coauthor of with Sandra Edwards, associate professor and MBA director at Northeastern State University in Tahlequah, Okla. The recently released book offers an overview of how sustainability is applied throughout an organization. 鈥淭he book is written for executives, entrepreneurs, and other employees or business students to understand the big picture of what it means to be a sustainable business,鈥 Landrum said. As principal at Sustainable Business Design Consulting, Landrum has consulted on sustainability issues with companies ranging from Fortune 200 and large oil companies to locally-owned small businesses. She is cofounder of the Sustainable Business Network of Central Arkansas, a committee member with the Little Rock Sustainability Commission, and serves on the Green Schools committee of the Arkansas chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council. Last year her Sustainable Business Design consulting blog was named among the . Landrum chairs 糖心Vlog传媒LR鈥檚 Sustainability Committee and is faculty advisor to 糖心Vlog传媒LR Net Impact. She was named a distinguished member of Net Impact, an international nonprofit organization that works to use the power of business to create a more socially and environmentally sustainable world. She has also been a visiting scholar in China and Finland. Through her class projects, she and her students have worked with several local private, public, government, and nonprofit organizations pursuing sustainability. Her research, teaching, consulting, and publication contributions are primarily in the areas of strategic management, corporate social responsibility, sustainable business, and base of the pyramid strategies. Landrum was previously a children鈥檚 mental health therapist and licensed social worker.View more stories in News