Examining the Sustainability Journey of Walmart Business
researchers from the University of Arkansas and the University
of South Carolina will be examining Walmart’s 7-year
sustainability effort as a way to create a teaching tool for
other businesses that hope to become more environmentally
friendly. As researchers from the University of Arkansas and the
University of South begin their project of examining Walmart’s
efforts of becoming more sustainable for nearly a decade, they
hope to find ways to help other businesses overcome certain
obstacles in order to be more environmentally conscious. The
project will consist of a series of cases that focus on a single
topic and a single organization over a specific amount of time.
“The strategy is to embed sustainability within the core
business supporting the company’s vision for a more sustainable
Walmart. Numerous initiatives, some of which are documented in
the case series, are part of this strategy that led to
international recognition of Walmart’s sustainabilit