by SACCNY | Dec 18, 2017 | Uncategorized
The Importance of Contacts and Research On the Ground When friends Johan Hägglund and Nima Marefat were students at the Stockholm School of Economics in 2011, they felt frustrated that the final exam was still done with old-fashioned pen and paper and other students...
by SACCNY | Dec 18, 2017 | Business, Entrepreneurship, Fashion, Retail, Trends
How bareMinerals Changed Cosmetics and Brought the Customer into the Boardroom Leslie Blodgett, Founder and former CEO of bareMinerals, knows retail. In 1994, when she became CEO of what was then the obscure bath and body brand Bare Escentuals, she rolled up her...
by SACCNY | Dec 18, 2017 | Award, Business, Entrepreneurship, Food, Innovation, News, Sustainology, Tech
Whywaste – Where Sustainability Meets the Bottom Line Over the past two years, the company has managed to curb food waste by 20 percent in about 100 Swedish supermarkets using data collection. In New York caught up with founders Annika Hellenberg, Martin Grådal,...
by SACCNY | Dec 18, 2017 | Business, Entrepreneurship, Events, Food, Innovation, Sustainology, Sweden, Tech
There were two notable refrains at the 2017 Sustainology Summit: First, sustainability done right is intrinsically profitable—and must be in order to be viable from a business perspective. Second, considering the escalating climate crisis and diminishing natural...
by SACCNY | Dec 18, 2017 | Business, Members, Retail
Marrying Innovation with Three Centuries of Tradition Orrefors & Kosta Boda were founded during a period of Swedish history known as ”the age of freedom.” With a history stretching back 275 years, Orrefors Kosta Boda is older than any other glass manufacturer in...
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