Unfolding Designs

Working Together: What Frontline Staff Want You To Know About Safety, Engagement, and Resilience

Employers have the responsibility and opportunity to protect worker and customer safety, create pathways to wage growth, and invite employees to use their full set of talents at work. Based on three years of extensive research and testing with over 200 frontline workers, their managers, and organizational leaders, working with The Prosperity Agenda, we developed this strategy brief for employers who want to foster personal, organizational, and economic resilience. Leadership, Human Resources, and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion teams can apply these strategies to create healthy and resilient workplaces and communities.
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Fast Fashion Systems Analysis

Fast Fashion Industry profits have grown dramatically in the last 30 years by utilizing a low price/high volume business model with Bangladesh emerging as the world’s second largest exporter of ready-made garments. Why has the global success of the Fast Fashion Industry put the lives of Bangladeshi garment workers at risk and what are the most effective leverage points to change this system?
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Big Impact with Small Growers: 

How Patagonia Can Seed Regenerative Agriculture

Patagonia has the unique opportunity to revolutionize the food system by connecting customers to their local environment. By including small to mid-sized suppliers in the Provisions sourcing strategy, Patagonia can play a key role in transforming regenerative organic agriculture from a niche subset into a powerful economic driver of environmental impact. Through partnership with Patagonia, producers who once had limited market opportunity gain access to national marketplaces and become economically viable.
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Self Governance in the U.S. Forest Service:

A Business Teaching Case with Solutions

In the late 1990s, the U.S. Forest Service, explored the possibility of operating self-governing and self-reliant businesses that sold their services within the agency. Based on many internal reports, this model proved to increase employee morale and productivity, while generating revenue and increased customer satisfaction, but could it be sustained within a highly traditional Federal department?
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Learning journeys can be used to develop complex and interrelated skills, build comfort with experimentation across teams, create openness to new mindsets, and prepare individuals to support organizational transformation.
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