Martin Melaver: "Living Above the Store": An Innovative Sustainable Business Model (9/15/09)

Martin Melaver, M.B.A., Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University: CEO, Melaver, Inc.

Melaver provides local businesses a roadmap that enhances economic success and contributes to sustainable environments. Melaver will discuss how during economic downturns, people who care about issues of community, sustainability and socially responsible businesses can redefine success, foster economic growth and, at the same time, restore local economies, ecologies and communities.

This program was recorded in front of a live audience at the Commonwealth Club of California on September 15, 2009.

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