Archive: 2019

We’re excited to announcement that SHINE’s research in the supply chain is featured in a Harvard Business School Case Study: New Balance Athletics, Inc., a major U.S.-based athletic footwear and apparel brand, sources most of its footwear…

What good is a sustainable environment if it leaves people unhappy, unhealthy, and broke? As the calls for sustainability practices grew louder in recent years, Eileen McNeely thought the conversations were ignoring that important point. Too close a…

SHINE researchers, Piotr Bialowolski, Dorota Weziak-Bialowolska, along with Tyler J. Vanderweele, of the Human Flourishing Program published a paper on the results of a study on the impact of savings and credit on health and health behaviors.  The…

SHINE’s research focuses on the health and well-being of the workplace.  While our research up to date has been mostly around the workforce – from office employees to  factory workers and the supply chain – we are adding a new cohort,…

Shout out to SHINE’s mission to change the conversation from reducing our footprint to increasing our “handprint” – a positive influence and measure on the environment.  Read the Article. 

Levi Strauss & Co.’s Worker Well-being (WWB) program aims to improve the lives of those who make our products around the world. To date, it has reached nearly 200,000 workers globally with factory-based programs that seek to address issues related to…

Levi Strauss & Co. is building on its five-year-old worker well-being program, underpinning new efforts with blockchain in order to enhance trust and transparency and reduce the time from data collection to review and response.Last week at…

Solution will be piloted with garment factory workers in Mexico in 2019 and 2020. Represents $800,000 collaboration supported by State Department, Levi Strauss Foundation, and ConsenSys. DAVOS, Switzerland – New America, ConsenSys, and…