Executive to Reflect on Doing Business in Haiti After Devastating Earthquake
Greif Inc.’s Scott Griffin to Deliver Ohio Wesleyan’s 2015 Heisler Business Ethics Lecture on April 9
Scott Griffin
DELAWARE, Ohio – As many as 316,000 people were killed. More than a million people were left homeless. Nearly 300,000 homes and 4,000 schools were damaged or destroyed.
When Haiti was rocked by a 7.0 magnitude earthquake in 2010, the island nation was devastated. According to the nonprofit Borgen Project, about 500,000 of the displaced residents remain homeless today, and another decade may pass before “serious results” are seen in ongoing efforts to help Haiti recover.
At 7:30 p.m. April 9, Scott Griffin, chief sustainability officer for Delaware-based Greif Inc., will discuss his company’s involvement in Haiti when he presents Ohio Wesleyan University’s 2015 Heisler Business Ethics Lecture. His presentation, “Normative Ethics – Executive reflections on doing business in Haiti after the Earthquake and beyond,” will be held in the Benes Rooms of OWU’s Hamilton-Williams Campus Center, 40 Rowland Ave., Delaware.
At Greif, Griffin is responsible for leading the development of the company’s sustainability strategy, and he works with communities, governments, and NGO partners to reach Greif’s sustainability goals in energy, carbon, and water. He also serves as the company’s liaison delegate to the World Business Council for Sustainable Development and the Clinton Global Initiative, and is the executive focal point for Greif’s partnership with The Conservation Fund.
In addition, Griffin, M.B.A., who also serves as Greif’s vice president for corporate communications, teaches courses on strategy and sustainability at The Ohio State University’s Fisher Graduate School of Business.
Greif is a world leader in industrial packaging products and services. The company produces steel, plastic, fibre, flexible, and corrugated containers and containerboard, and provides reconditioning, blending, filling, and packaging services for a wide range of industries. Greif also manages timber properties in North America. The company is strategically positioned in more than 50 countries to serve global as well as regional customers. Learn more at www.greif.com.
Ohio Wesleyan’s annual Heisler Business Ethics Lecture is funded by the Heisler Family Endowment for the Study of Ethics, which honors university graduates James Heisler, Class of 1938; Robert Heisler, Class of 1942; and Bruce Heisler, Class of 1949.
The lecture is sponsored by the university’s Woltemade Center for Economics, Business and Entrepreneurship, which helps students to integrate business theory and practice, and provides lectures and other resources to benefit students, faculty, and the local community. Learn more about the center at https://www.owu.edu/academics/departments-programs/department-of-economics/the-woltemade-center/.
Founded in 1842, Ohio Wesleyan University is one of the nation’s premier liberal arts universities. Located in Delaware, Ohio, the private university offers 86 undergraduate majors and competes in 23 NCAA Division III varsity sports. Ohio Wesleyan combines a challenging, internationally focused curriculum with off-campus learning and leadership opportunities to connect classroom theory with real-world experience. OWU’s 1,750 students represent 46 U.S. states and territories and 43 countries. Ohio Wesleyan is featured in the book “Colleges That Change Lives,” listed on the latest President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll with Distinction, and included in the U.S. News & World Report and Princeton Review “best colleges” lists. Learn more at www.owu.edu.