Minna Halme Editor & Author

Prabhu Kandachar is Professor of Industrial Design Engineering with a focus on Sustainable Materials and Manufacturing Technology, and Chairman of the Department of Design Engineering, at the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering (IDE), Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. He received his BE degree in Mechanical Engineering at the Mysore University, and ME degree and PhD in Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. After a stint of five years (since 1975) at the Materials Science and Technology department at Delft, he worked for 15 years for Fokker Aerospace, in various technical and management positions. His teaching and research interests at IDE are focused on materialising design ideas. Additionally, he is extensively involved in designing products and services for the emerging markets, with many action-oriented projects in the last few years. There are about 90 publications on his work. Minna Halme is an associate professor at Helsinki School of Economics. Her current research focuses on business models for sustainable services, sustainability implications of the base-of-the-pyramid (BoP) approach and corporate responsibility. She has worked in a number of European and national research projects on material efficiency services to industry, sustainable household services, sustainable tourism and sustainable business strategies. She has published in Ecological Economics, Business Strategy and the Environment, Journal of Management Studies, Business Ethics Quarterly, Scandinavian Journal of Management and in a number of other journals. She teaches Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management at masters', doctoral and executive MBA courses.