In November 2021, over 60 students from Asia School of Business (ASB) journeyed to oil palm plantations in Batu Pahat, in the state of Johor, Malaysia for an Operations Practicum.
A core part of the MBA experience, practicums are an accelerated form of what ASB calls Action Learning - an intense, one-week experience of going to the ground in a specific industry (in this case, oil palm) to understand the challenges, scoping down challenges to tackle in smaller groups, conducting research, data-gathering, analysis, and iterating to converge on a suite of recommendations and solutions to address the challenges on the ground.
This operations practicum focused on the issue of ensuring sustainability in the oil palm supply chain and was organized in collaboration with the Center for Sustainable Small-holders (CSS), a center supported by Procter & Gamble. The mission of CSS is to empower smallholder farmers in their sustainability journey while supporting the NDPE (No Deforestation, No Plantation on Peat, No Worker Exploitation) policy.
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