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The Fowler Center for Sustainable Value - About

The Fowler Center for Sustainable Value leverages interdisciplinary scholarship and practice to help leaders capitalize on new profitable business opportunities to solve the world's growing social and environmental problems. We work directly with all institutions to embed sustainability into their core strategy, applying cutting-edge competencies in design, innovation, whole systems, and appreciative inquiry.

The Fowler Center focuses on two primary areas:

Scholarship

  • Sustainable Value
  • Collaborative Design
  • Appreciative Inquiry
  • Spirituality & Business
  • World Inquiry
  • The Journal of Corporate Citizenship
  • Scholarship: Case studies, articles, books, blogs, etc.
  • The Center develops and promotes global thought leadership that successfully integrates the following elements:
    • Sustainable Value: Sustainability for competitive advantage.
    • Science based constraints of living on a small planet.
    • Personal mastery and inner transformation.
    • Cutting edge expertise in areas such as: Biomimicry and Resiliency.
  • Changing undergraduate, graduate and Executive Education by supporting and influencing educators and change agents (individuals and teams).

Outreach

  • Developing a Nobel-like Prize for Sustainable Value.
  • Consulting with Industries and Associations.
  • Consulting work with individual institutions.
  • Appreciative Inquiry Summits.
  • UN Global Compact US Network Secretariat.
  • Cities and Regions projects like Sustainable Cleveland 2019.
  • Business as an Agent of World Benefit.

The below graph shows how the Fowler Center for Sustainable Value is different from CSR/Ethics-focused centers.

In addition to the focus areas above, below please find some facts about the Fowler Center's history:

  • The Principles of Responsible Management Education were first envisioned at the Global Forum for BAWB.
  • The Fowler Center helped coach a Weatherhead team that won the 2010 Aspen Institute Case Study Competition.
  • The Fowler Center's network is active in Latin America, Africa, Southeast Asia, and Eastern and Western Europe.
    • For example, the Fowler Center works with BAWB Brazil on projects from Sao Paulo to the Amazon.
  • The Appreciative Inquiry method was invented here.
  • The idea of 'Positive Institutions' is being developed and explored here.

To find out how you or your organization can get involved with the Fowler Center for Sustainable Value contact us at +1 216.368.2160 or email fowlercenter@case.edu. Stay connected with us by signing up for our Newsletter or join us on Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn.