PROFESSOR OF SUSTAINABILITY & ENTERPRISE PERFORMANCE - AARHUS UNIVERSITY - DENMARK
HONORARY PROFESSOR OF ENGINEERING OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT - SOUTHERN DENMARK UNIVERSITY
SHINGO INSTITUTE RESEARCH FELLOW - JON M. HUNTSMAN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS - UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY
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Mobile: +1 435-535-5015 Edgeman.Rick@gmail.com
Rick Edgeman is Professor & Chair of the Management Department in the Robbins College of Business & Entrepreneurship at Fort Hays State University (Kansas). The Management Department at FHSU offers programs in Management, Operations Management, Entrepreneurship, Human Resource Management and more. With approximately 1000 majors and 20 faculty members, its reach extends into the on-campus community, where FHSU has about 4500 students, into the University's 4000 students in China, its 7000 students in the Virtual College, and into fledgling pockets of students in the Czech Republic, India, Senegal, and Cambodia.
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Concurrently, Rick serves as Professor of Sustainability & Enterprise Performance in the Department of Business Development & Technology (BTECH) at Aarhus University (Denmark), where he has continuously engaged since 1997 and was previously a tenured full professor. BTECH combines business and engineering to form the programs in which Rick engages: Technology-Based Business Development, and Global Management & Manufacturing. He is also Engineering Operations Management (EOM) Honorary Professor at the Technology & Innovation Department – Faculty of Engineering at the University of Southern Denmark (Odense), and Faculty Fellow in the Shingo Institute in the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University
COMPLEX MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS &
THE SHINGO MODEL
HISPANIC COLLEGE INSTITUTE LECTURES – 21 JUNE 2019
FORT HAYS STATE UNIVERSITY
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MODERN SLAVERY IN GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAINS
Rick Edgeman, Ph.D., Professor & Chair of Management
Robbins College of Business & Entrepreneurship – Fort Hays State University
It is estimated that in 2019 there are more slaves globally than at any time in history – up to 46 million. No nation is immune from this evil, though its form differs greatly around the world and is government sanctioned in some nations such as North Korea and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In contrast with well-known forms such as sex slavery and forced child labor, the long arm of slavery is often invisible, yet it extends into our hotel rooms, our technology, our clothing and our food.
Discover in this lecture what slavery is, how it differs its form around the globe, its presence in everyday life, what the international community is doing and what you can do to combat this insidious evil.
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SUSTAINABILITY, INNOVATION & GRAND GLOBAL CHALLENGES
Rick Edgeman, Ph.D., Professor & Chair of Management
Robbins College of Business & Entrepreneurship – Fort Hays State University
The world we know is an increasingly complex one where dollars, pounds, euros and yen are increasingly augmented by water, food, warmth and security as the currencies people value. Sustainability has many faces and definitions. Among interrelated challenges of the contemporary world are cyberterrorism; modern slavery; soil, water and air contamination & pollution that are responsible for more than 20 million deaths each year; water and food insecurity; aging populations and global population explosion; diminishing biodiversity; energy challenges; climate change; diminishing natural resources; melting polar icecaps together with rising ocean levels and acidity levels. Discover some of the details of these challenges today, what governments and organizations are doing to address these challenges, the importance of innovation in solving these challenges, some specific innovations and the people behind them.
AFFILIATIONS
SUSTAINABILITY
RESEARCH & TRANSLATION
