{"id":48,"date":"2021-07-21T18:02:58","date_gmt":"2021-07-21T22:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/family_business_institute\/?p=48"},"modified":"2021-07-21T18:38:08","modified_gmt":"2021-07-21T22:38:08","slug":"a-step-in-the-right-direction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/family_business_institute\/?p=48","title":{"rendered":"A step in the right direction&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>THE ONLY WAY FORWARD: MULTIGENERATIONAL COLLABORATION FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color:#00a306\" class=\"has-inline-color\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tharawat-magazine.com\/stories\/the-only-way-forward\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.tharawat-magazine.com\/stories\/the-only-way-forward\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dean Sanjay Sharma speaks with Tharawat Magazine<\/a>&#8216;s Lee Hoverd about the benefits of co-creation and circularity<\/em> <em>at the core of sustainable family businesses<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1069\" height=\"492\" src=\"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/family_business_institute\/files\/2021\/07\/image-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-49\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/family_business_institute\/files\/2021\/07\/image-1.png 1069w, https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/family_business_institute\/files\/2021\/07\/image-1-768x353.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>After 16 years in senior corporate management, Sanjay Sharma realized the conventional business model of profits over environmental stewardship and social equity was deeply flawed. His commitment to changing the status quo led him to academia. Today, he&#8217;s the Dean of the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/business\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/business\" target=\"_blank\">Grossman School of Business at the University of Vermont<\/a>, which is recognized worldwide for its leadership in sustainable business higher education and research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE ONLY WAY FORWARD: MULTIGENERATIONAL COLLABORATION FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE Dean Sanjay Sharma speaks with Tharawat Magazine&#8216;s Lee Hoverd about the benefits of co-creation and circularity at the core of sustainable family businesses After 16 years in senior corporate management, Sanjay Sharma realized the conventional business model of profits over environmental stewardship and social equity &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/family_business_institute\/?p=48\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A step in the right direction&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5627,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-faculty-friends"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Lauren Bass","author_link":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/family_business_institute\/?author=5627"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/family_business_institute\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/family_business_institute\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/family_business_institute\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/family_business_institute\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5627"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/family_business_institute\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/family_business_institute\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57,"href":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/family_business_institute\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions\/57"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/family_business_institute\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/family_business_institute\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/family_business_institute\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}