Sustainable Business Case Studies
A Project of the Collins Educational Foundation
Business and Sustainability Program

The Collins Educational Foundations is pleased to announce the development, in cooperation with the Presidio Graduate School (San Francisco), of the first in a series of case studies in sustainable business.  Dwight Collins, founder and president of the Collins Educational Foundation and Chair of the Presidio Graduate School MBA program was a leader in the development of this innovative project. 

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To view the case study click here  (Presidio Website)
Also published at www.GreenBiz.com

Below is the press release provided by the Presidio for this first case study. 

Presidio Releases First Sustainable Business Case Study

Presidio Graduate School today announced the release of Presidio’s first published teaching case study.

Professors Dwight Collins and Dariush Rafinejad, Co-Chairs of the Presidio’s faculty Research and Case Development Committee, worked with recent Presidio MBA Graduate Jenny Hoang to develop the case, entitled “A Tale of Three Bins.” The case was developed while Ms. Hoang was in the fourth semester of her graduate studies at Presidio.

 The case study documents the steps taken by Sabre Holdings, Inc., a $3B travel and tourism software company (and the firm behind Travelocity.com), to dramatically increase the diversion rate of solid waste generated by its 3000 person Southlake, TX headquarters from 36 percent to 80 percent within a year. In addition, the case analyzes Sabre Holdings’ application of principles of systems thinking, taught to Presidio MBA students in their first semester Principles of Sustainable Management course. 

“This is the first of a kind, a high quality case study written by a Presidio student under the guidance of Presidio faculty” stated William Shutkin, Presidio’s President. “It represents a milestone for Presidio’s degree programs and an important piece of intellectual property for use at and beyond the school for teaching sustainable management.” 

The case sponsor was Ms. Leilani Latimer, Senior Director of Sustainability Initiatives at Sabre Holdings. Ms. Latimer, an established and widely reputed marketing professional, received her Executive Certificate in Sustainable Management from Presidio Graduate School in 2009. She led the solid waste reduction initiative documented in the case.

 Seeing the opportunity to share the knowledge of how to design and manage a large scale waste diversion project with other companies, Ms. Latimer approached Presidio Interim Dean Edward Quevedo in late 2011 with the offer to sponsor the development of Presidio’s first teaching case.