Dr. Landrum’s ‘Sustainable Business’ for Executives is Released
Business Expert Press recently announced the release of “Sustainable Business: An Executive’s Primer,” authored by Nancy E. Landrum, Ph.D., an associate professor of management at UALR, and Sandra Edwards.
The book provides an overview of how sustainability is applied throughout an organization. Chapters are organized by familiar departments or functions of business and covers applications and terminology of sustainability throughout each area. It 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.
“Sustainable Business: An Executive’s Primer” may be purchased on the Business Expert Press site.
Dr. Landrum will be presenting during the session “Greening 101/What is Green?” at the upcoming Little Rock Sustainability Summit, hosted by the City of Little Rock and the Little Rock Sustainability Commission, on Sept. 26 at the Statehouse Convention Center.
A 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 co-founder 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 Top 50 Business Professor Blogs by Biz.edu.
Landrum chairs UALR’s Sustainability Committee and is faculty advisor to UALR 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. And she has 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’s mental health therapist and licensed social worker.
