Center for Sustainable Business | Sustainability and Human Rights Summer Fellowship

KJ had the incredible opportunity to be an MBA Strategy intern at New Balance on their Responsible Leadership and Global Compliance team. Her main project this summer focused on conducting robust data analysis, and three different deliverables that helped provide insight on suppliers and inform potential impact on workers and productivity levels in the post-COVID landscape.

Akshat's work at Williams Sonoma revolved around advancing the company's ESG goals. He developed strategies to reduce scope 1 emissions in a significant way, aligned with the organization's science-based targets. 

Sejal worked on Nespresso's team to analyze recycling engagement data for Nespresso’s B2B Clients across the last 5 years, including major hotel chains, universities, and companies. She used tools like Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Power BI to analyze recycling trends across industries then built out data visualizations to provide a high-level overview as part of her final project.

As an ESG/Sustainability Fellow at Whisps, Doris worked on two projects, a greenhouse gas accounting project focusing on the company’s supply chain transformation and an impact assessment to identify priority improvement areas to further reduce Whisps’ GHG footprint.

As a Sustainability Fellow at Tory Burch, Debbie's worked closely with the Global Head of ESG Strategy to benchmark the company’s internal ESG strategy against the B Lab’s consumer-facing sustainability standards.

Kirsten will lead two high visibility projects in our Environmental Social Governance (ESG) Practice. In the first, she will leverage materiality assessment results to drive impact and inform ESG strategy and in the second, she will conduct research to develop innovative ESG offerings to support impact on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and business growth.

Isa will work with Williams-Sonoma, Inc. on projects related to supply chain innovation, sustainability, circular economy, worker education and empowerment, and ESG reporting. The post will involve research, quantitative and qualitative analysis, and strategy development.

Abbey will support New Balance on their fair compensation work and supply chain responsible leadership program.

Yurany will work on two projects with Gore Mutual: one focusing on CSB's Return on Sustainability Investment (ROSI) methodology and the other to support with developing a framework for the launch of their ESG program.

Puja will chart a course that is both sustainable and impactful at a global scale. She will work with stakeholders of Sourcing, Operations, Business Intelligence, Tech, Service Delivery and Education, matching everyday business as usual requirements with ambitious targets for carbon neutrality.

Sophie will support Nespresso's social and environmental impact. Some deliverables will include the development of social impact strategy, including BCorp principles, of competitors and other certified BCorp companies of similar size and/or industry, conduct research of end-of-life capsules for selected key markets, help drive the environmental strategy/plan, and support waste audits at our head office and/or local boutique locations

Marta supported the BBMG team in creating content for brand and innovation projects, support project management directly with clients, and research and synthesize brand landscapes and consumer reports.

Julianne assisted with the preparation for Bloomberg's annual internal conference, where the relevant contacts in the businesses get together to share what they’ve been working on and their plans for the upcoming year. She also researched the corporate governance of specific companies and executive compensation.