Our Impact

The Value Add of Sustainability

Finding opportunities in sustainability is as simple as examining your firm's operations and supply chain. You can create impact through daily operations or in interactions with your suppliers. When you think critically about where your raw materials come from, what you do with your waste and who's involved in your supply chain, you can create value-added change. For example, if you reconsider your firm's waste and find a way to internalize its use, you can close the loop and truly leverage all the opportunities of the circular value chain. Sustainability offers ways to cut costs and increase profitability while still producing an excellent product. Learn more about successful projects led by IU Business Sustainability and Innovation Lab Director Amrou Awaysheh.

Successful Partner Projects

Unilever

Unilever’s zero waste initiative applied to 240 factories in 67 countries helped achieve €220 million in cost savings and created more than 1,000 job opportunities.

Learn about Awaysheh's work with Unilever

The IU IoT Energy Efficiency Lab

Awaysheh uses this lab to develop components and practices that allow companies to reduce their energy consumption and create savings.

Find out more about the IoT Lab

Whirlpool

A team of five Kelley Evening MBAs working under Awaysheh tackled a sustainability issue for home appliance manufacturer Whirlpool.

Explore our project with Whirlpool

Operations is where you can convert your ESG (environmental, social and governance) targets, dreams and goals into actionable process changes that result in a genuine impact on your ESG performance.
Amrou Awaysheh | Founding and Executive Director, IU Business Sustainability and Innovation Lab and Associate Professor of Operations Management, IU Kelley School of Business

Our Work

Since 2008, our sustainability projects have had a measurable impact on the natural environment. Learn more about the cumulative impact created by projects Awaysheh has led, managed or collaborated upon with companies around the globe. While these projects make measurable differences for each firm, they represent a fraction of the resources wasted each year in the United States.

Our Impact in 2023

Energy: 18 trillion BTUs of energy consumption eliminated
Water: 19 billion gallons of water not extracted
CO2: 3 million tons of CO2 emissions saved
Waste: 860,000 tons of waste diverted from landfills

Our Cumulative Impact, 2008 to 2023

Energy: 171 trillion BTUs of energy consumption eliminated
Water: 153 billion gallons of water not extracted
CO2: 38 million tons of CO2 emissions saved
Waste: 7.4 million tons of waste diverted from landfills

GSK
John Deere
Lippert
Loop
Meritor
Molson Coors
PepsiCo
Roche Diagnostics

Ryder
Santander
Stanley Black & Decker
TerraCycle
Uber
Unilever
United Way
Whirlpool

Our Research

IU Business Sustainability and Innovation Lab Director Amrou Awaysheh discusses what manufacturers and firms can do to find opportunity within sustainability.

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Is there room for positive impact in your firm? Connect with us to learn more about the value of sustainable strategies and Awaysheh's work in this area.

About Us

Kelley School of Business

Kelley Indianapolis