Robert Kuhn

Sustainability subject matter expertise combined with superior business management skills.

Sustainability consultant to companies throughout the product supply chain since 2008. Over a decade of hands-on business management and process-reengineering experience as a manufacturing company CEO before that. Keen understanding of the relationship between environmental sustainability and business, bringing a wealth of skills and experience to help clients solve complex sustainability problems. Always working to create practical, implementable solutions that provide quick and lasting results in many areas. Experienced in a unique implementation methodology that builds confidence in project teams and helps identify capacity-for-change issues to senior management ... avoiding many of the costly pitfalls inherent in many large-scale projects.

Frequent speaker at conferences and seminars. Author of published articles on sustainability in the supply chain. Respected trainer/teacher of sustainability in both live and virtual formats.

1. Supply Chain
2. Sustainability
3. Business Process Improvement

• Complex Matters in Mergers: The Treatment of Sustainability

  • Inside Supply Management/Institute for Supply Management
  • July 2010
  Authors: Robert Kuhn

  Kraft Foods' recent acquisition of British confectionary legend Cadbury plc — a mega-merger worth some US$19.6 billion — is notable for many reasons, not the least of which is the questions it raises about one of the most interesting supply chain issues today. The question is how corporate social responsibility (CSR) and environmental sustainability will be treated by the acquirer (in this case, U.S.-based Kraft) and the acquiree (Cadbury) during the acquisition and in the combined businesses after full integration. Here we have two international companies with potentially differing views of and approaches to CSR and sustainability. Just how might this play out on the corporate level and from a supply management perspective? And, perhaps most important, how can both companies preserve the best of their CSR- and sustainability-related goals, efforts and achievements?

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