Creating a Game Plan for Transition to a Sustainable Economy
Creating a Game Plan for Transition to a Sustainable Economy
11/17/2009 12:00 PM Wong AuditoriumJeffrey Hollender, Co"founder & Executive Chair; Seventh Generation Description: The "chief inspired protagonist" of one of the nation's oldest and most successful green manufacturers apologizes for delivering a talk "more depressing ...
Creating Value in a Volatile World
Creating Value in a Volatile World
02/23/2010 4:00 PM 3"270David Simchi"Levi, Professor of Engineering Systems and Civil EngineeringDescription: The need for flexible management of supply chains to increase operational efficiencies could not be greater, as modern companies outsource and manufacture overseas. David Simchi" Levi ...
Day 2 PCL2008 Closing Panel - Sustainability and Scalability
Day 2 PCL2008 Closing Panel - Sustainability and Scalability
Day 2 PCL 2008 WorkshopClosing Panel: Sustainability and ScalabilityModerator - Michael Gregory, University of Cambridge, UK;Tom Jacobius, Illinois Institute of Technology; William Oakes, Purdue University; Lydia Kavanagh, University of Queensland, AU; Tom Molyneaux, ...
Dr. Ashok Gadgil - 2012 $100,000 Lemelson-MIT Award for ...
Dr. Ashok Gadgil - 2012 $100,000 Lemelson-MIT Award for Global Innovation ...
Video profile of Dr. Ashok Gadgil, winner of the 2012 $100,000 Lemelson-MIT Award for Global Innovation for scientific solutions to the global water crisis, and energy and fuel efficiency.
Dynamic Economic Systems
Dynamic Economic Systems
Conversation with Nicholas Ashford, a professor of technology and policy in MIT's School of Engineering.
Ecological Intelligence
Ecological Intelligence
12/03/2009 6:30 PM 4"370Daniel Goleman, Psychologist, writer; Deborah G. Ancona, Seley Distinguished Professor of Management; Faculty Director, MIT Leadership Center; Greg Norris, '85, Founder, SylvaticaDescription: Some people believe the planet would be better off, at least ecologically, if ...
Education Across Borders: The India Perspective
Education Across Borders: The India Perspective
10/27/2009 3:00 PM 10"250Shri Kapil Sibal, Honourable Minister of Human Resource Development, Government of IndiaDescription: Rickshaw drivers in India are frequent victims of tuberculosis after just a few years inhaling traffic fumes. This near"epidemic went ...
Elizabeth Hausler - Profile Video
Elizabeth Hausler - Profile Video
Video profile of Dr. Elizabeth Hausler, winner of the 2011 $100,000 Lemelson-MIT Award for Sustainability.
Energy Entrepreneurship and Innovation: Today's Challenges, ...
Energy Entrepreneurship and Innovation: Today's Challenges, Tomorrow's ...
05/07/2009 4:30 PM Sheraton BostonWilliam Aulet, SM '94, Senior Lecturer, MIT Sloan School of Management; Jacques Beaudry"Losique, SM '92, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Renewable Energy; U.S. Department of Energy; ; Christina Lampe"Onnerud, Founder and CEO, ...
Energy in a Global Context
Energy in a Global Context
06/09/2007 9:00 AM KresgeDr. Susan Hockfield, President, MIT; Nazli Choucri, Professor of Political Science, Associate Director of the MIT Technology and Development Program, and Head of the Middle East Program at MIT; Description: As Susan Hockfield recounts, MIT presentations on disruptive ...
Entrepreneurship, Government, and Development in Africa
Entrepreneurship, Government, and Development in Africa
09/21/2009 4:00 PM 34"101President John Kufuor, President of Ghana 2001"2009Description: After centuries of insufferable oppression by colonial powers, bloody independence struggles, and corrupt home"grown regimes, "Africa today is quickly awakening, and determined to ...
Fixit Clinic
Fixit Clinic XVIII at the MIT Edgerton Center
Education, empowerment and enlightenment through guided disassembly of your broken stuffPeter Mui ’82 holds Fixit Clinic XVIII at the MIT Edgerton Center
Forging a Clean Energy Future
Forging a Clean Energy Future
04/25/2008 3:30 PM 32"123Senator Jeff Bingaman, U.S. Senator, (D) New MexicoDescription: For those seeking reassurance that American politicians take climate change and clean energy seriously, look no further: Jeff Bingaman wraps his arms around this enormous issue, and sets forth an ...
Forging Fellowship: Pascal Marmier, SF 2008
Forging Fellowship: Pascal Marmier, SF 2008
As Sr. Advisor of Swissnex Boston, Pascal Marmier, focuses on the high-tech collaboration among Swiss and U.S. scientists, entrepreneurs, and innovators in hopes of achieving climate change. In his time with the MIT Sloan Fellows program, Marmier, SF 2008, advanced ...
From IT to Cleantech: New Sources of Innovation
From IT to Cleantech: New Sources of Innovation
12/04/2008 3:45 PM Wong AuditoriumShai Agassi, Founder & CEO, Better PlaceDescription: Imagine a response to oil dependence and climate change that offers people around the world a new and improved version of the car, premised on redesigning infrastructure top to ...
From Relief to Reconstruction — Practical and Policy ...
From Relief to Reconstruction — Practical and Policy Challenges
Oxfam's Raymond Offenheiser scrutinizes what will ultimately be "crucial to the outcome, in the Haitian context, of a successful recovery and rehabilitation by the Haitian people and for the Haitian nation-distributed leadership.
George Crabtree - The Sustainable Energy Challenge
George Crabtree - The Sustainable Energy Challenge
This seminar was given on December 2, 2008 as part of the MITEI Seminar Series Abstract: The global dependence on fossil fuel is among the greatest challenges facing our economic, social and political future. The uncertainty of imported oil threatens global energy ...
George Crabtree - The Sustainable Energy Challenge
George Crabtree - The Sustainable Energy Challenge
George Crabtree - The Sustainable Energy Challenge ShareThis Embed Playlist Report This seminar was given on December 2, 2008 as part of the MITEI Seminar Series Abstract: The global dependence on fossil fuel is among the greatest challenges facing our economic, ...
Getting Unstuck: How to Promote More Sustainable Practices ...
Getting Unstuck: How to Promote More Sustainable Practices in Our ...
09/19/2008 1:45 PM KresgeRebecca M. Henderson, '81, Eastman Kodak LFM Professor of ManagementDescription: All that's required to achieve sustainability, says Rebecca Henderson, is to clean up your current operations and/or rethink the business. "That's easy," she says ...
Global Resources and the Built Environment
Global Resources and the Built Environment
06/09/2007 11:55 AM KresgeJohn Fernandez, '85, Associate Professor, Department of ArchitectureDescription: With staggering statistics, John Fernandez persuades his audience that rapidly expanding urban centers are consuming too much of the world's resources, setting ...