This is the first page of the article titled The Ultimate Recycling? Positing the Effect of Past Life Belief on Fair Trade Consumption – A Preliminary Study. To read the full article titled The Ultimate Recycling? Positing the Effect of Past Life Belief […]
The Importance of Creating a “Mindful Intelligent Leadership” Course and Integrating Mindfulness into the Sustainability Business Curriculum: A Literature Review
To read the full article titled The Importance of Creating a “Mindful Intelligent Leadership” Course and Integrating Mindfulness into the Sustainability Business Curriculum: A Literature Review, click on the below link for the PDF. Shireen Musa The Importance of Creating a Mindful Intelligent Leadership Course […]
Compassion and Fashion – Part 2
The following empirical study was published in the Business and Professional Ethics Journal, a peer-reviewed scholarly journal, and it builds upon the consumer-based scale development from Dr. Shireen Musa’s prior research (see “Compassion and Fashion – Part 1” post) by analyzing the role of compassion […]
Compassion and Fashion – Part 1
The following empirical study was published in the Journal of Fair Trade, a peer-reviewed scholarly journal, and it focused on specific attributes held by consumers of Fair Trade fashion. Dr. Shireen Musa was the lead author for this article, which provides an overview of the […]
It Belongs to Them…
Some cities across the U.S. are marking the second Monday in October as Indigenous Peoples Day. Indigenous People are “inheritors and practitioners of unique cultures and ways of relating to people and the environment. They have retained social, cultural, economic and political characteristics that […]
Harvesting Prosperity
On March 2, 2019, I attended the National Fair Trade Campaigns Conference in Chicago. Paul Rice, who is the Founder and CEO of Fair Trade USA, presented a Keynote session where he discussed his recent trip to Rwanda. Providing an example of how he views […]
Children’s Rights are Human Rights
Often times when addressing international trade and sustainability issues, various U.N. initiatives and policies, such as the UN Sustainable Development Goals https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sustainable-development-goals/ are discussed. As we witness global immigration challenges currently reported in the following […]
2017 African Women’s Entrepreneurial Program (AWEP) Showcase
In July 2017, WorldChicago (www.worldchicago.org) and Meridian (www.meridian.org) hosted 30 African Women Entrepreneurs, who were visiting the U.S. as part of the U.S. Department of State “International Visitor Leadership Program” (https://eca.state.gov/ivlp). According to Meridian’s website the “30 international visitors representing 27 nations from across Africa […]
ITM’s 2nd Biennial Sustainable Global Sourcing Forum – 2017
On March 21, 2017, the Department of International Trade & Marketing (ITM), Jay and Patty Baker School of Business and Technology, in partnership with faculty from the Departments of Cosmetics Fragrance Marketing (CFM), Fashion Business Management (FBM), Home Products (HP) & Textile Development Marketing (TDM) […]