Supply Chain Environmental Sustainability

A podcast interview on Leaders in Supply Chain and Logistics, hosted by Radu Palamariu. 

Dr. Yossi Sheffi, professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he serves as Director of the MIT  Center for Transportation and Logistics. He is an expert in systems optimization, risk analysis, and supply chain management, which are the subjects he teaches and researches at MIT. He is the author of many scientific publications and five books. 

It can be hard to find a nuanced discussion of corporate sustainability. But Yossi Sheffi's new book aims to provide just that, offering a clear-eyed take on the challenges and benefits of going green.

As the title suggests, this is a very balanced work that provides a true 360-degree look at this critical topic, impeccably researched, with interviews of some 250 companies as to their sustainability strategies and practices.

Sheffi offer highlights in this interesting video discussion with SCDigest editor Dan Gilmore, an excerpt from one of our recent Supply Chain Video News broadcasts with CSCMP.

This new book, Balancing Green, does it. It is deep and technically credible, but also readable and loaded with familiar names and stories. Most importantly, it tackles the question of sustainability without a preconceived agenda.

It is simply the reality that sustainability is a complex issue which pits some people against other people, rather than evil western business against a noble, innocent emerging world. Sheffi and Blanco have tackled this question more deeply and fairly than anyone I’ve seen.

{Originally published in Forbes}

MIT Professor Yossi Sheffi has just published, along with Edgar Blanco of Amazon, the definitive book on sustainability in business. For supply chain enthusiasts like me the topic is endlessly complex and compelling, but arguably too big to pin down systematically. This new book, Balancing Green, does it. It is deep and technically credible, but also readable and loaded with familiar names and stories. Most importantly, it tackles the question of sustainability without a preconceived agenda.

Yossi Sheffi, Director of the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics, has recently published a must-read book on sustainability. Balancing Green: When to Embrace Sustainability in a Business (and When Not To) is a well-researched book that cuts through many of the fallacies and wishful thinking that surrounds sustainability. {Originally pu

Yossi Sheffi, Director of the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics, has done it again. He recently published a must-read book on sustainability. Balancing Green: When to Embrace Sustainability in a Business (and When Not To) is a well-researched book that cuts through many of the fallacies and wishful thinking that surrounds sustainability.