Starbucks Sustainability Practices Businesses are waking up to the urgent need to face multiple sustainability challenges and minimize the lasting environmental footprint. .SustainabilityHQ, reported that the big company and business stories of 2015 included overwhelming headlines about sustainability (http://www.sustainabilityhq.com/single-view-public/weekly-highlights-single-view/article/big-stories-of-2015-what-were-your-choices-lots-of-headlines-about-sustainability-last-year/). This paper outlines the roles of sustainable business philosophies that the world-class company, Starbucks values in everyday practices to establish a company with a conscience.
Strategic Management Philosophies & Practices Starbucks has been proactive in their efforts to integrate sustainable business practices and development into their overall company values and mission. In fact, according to Starbucks, they predict that ninety-nine percent of all the coffee they sell in 2015 will be certified by outside sources as being ethically sourced (Horovitz, Bruce. April, 2015). SustainAbility is a company that was founded in 1987 and has since worked to provide businesses with …show more content…
They have optimized heating and cooling options as well, by installing energy management systems in approximately 4,000 stores world-wide (http://www.starbucks.com/). With all these changes and additions, Starbucks had only realized an improvement on energy conservation of 4.65 over their baseline levels but they continue to practice efficient energy use and are optimistic that their statistics will continue to improve. Moving forward, this challenge promotes decision makers to continue to explore unique ways in which to reduce energy
Strategic Management Philosophies & Practices Starbucks has been proactive in their efforts to integrate sustainable business practices and development into their overall company values and mission. In fact, according to Starbucks, they predict that ninety-nine percent of all the coffee they sell in 2015 will be certified by outside sources as being ethically sourced (Horovitz, Bruce. April, 2015). SustainAbility is a company that was founded in 1987 and has since worked to provide businesses with …show more content…
They have optimized heating and cooling options as well, by installing energy management systems in approximately 4,000 stores world-wide (http://www.starbucks.com/). With all these changes and additions, Starbucks had only realized an improvement on energy conservation of 4.65 over their baseline levels but they continue to practice efficient energy use and are optimistic that their statistics will continue to improve. Moving forward, this challenge promotes decision makers to continue to explore unique ways in which to reduce energy