For Starbucks, environmental sustainability and corporate social responsibility have become business imperatives. In this audio lecture, Dennis Macray, vice president of corporate social responsibility, discusses what the company does behind the scenes to be a good customer and neighbor to coffee growers in South America. He details the work Starbucks is doing in partnershp with NGOs to help farmers develop an ecologically, socially, and economically sustainable way of life. He shares these environmental sustainability and corporate social responsibility practices with a group of Stanford MBAs preparing for a service-learning trip to Guatemala.
Dennis Macray currently oversees Starbucks corporate social responsibility initiatives. He has managed social, economic, and environmental sustainability programs for domestic and international operations, including fair trade coffee, shade-grown coffee, and NGO relations. Prior to joining Starbucks, Macray worked with Viatru Inc. (formerly World2Market.com) as the director of supplier relations, developing markets for sustainable and fair trade products. He also helped develop microfinance institutions and social enterprises in Latin America by working at Conservation International and serving as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Guatemala. He is a graduate of Harvard and has an MBA from UC Berkeley.
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