Opportunities in Building More Sustainable Supply Chains
Opportunities in Building More Sustainable Supply Chains
09/19/2008 11:20 AM KresgeRichard M. Locke, PhD '89, Alvin J. Siteman Professor of Entrepreneurship and Political Science; Fernando Paiz, SF '89, Vice President, Wal"Mart Central America; Bonnie Nixon"Gardiner, Director, Hewlett Packard Ethical SourcingDescription: ...
Opportunities in Infrastructure and Built Environment
Opportunities in Infrastructure and Built Environment
09/19/2008 2:45 PM KresgeSarah Slaughter, 82, SM'87, PhD 91, Associate Director for Buildings & Infrastructure, MIT Energy Initiative; Judith Layzer, PhD '99, Linde Career Development Associate Professor of Environmental Policy; Milton Bevington, Domain Director, ...
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 ...
Martin Fisher, 2008 winner of the $100,000 Lemelson-MIT ...
Martin Fisher, 2008 winner of the $100,000 Lemelson-MIT Award for ...
Martin Fisher is co-founder of the non-profit social enterprise KickStart. To date, Fisher's low-cost irrigation pumps and innovative business model have helped to lift nearly 80 percent of his customers - poor African farmers - out of poverty. Biography | Press ...
Sustainability: The Next Management Frontier
Sustainability: The Next Management Frontier
Find out from MIT Sloan Faculty what Sustainability means for the future of your business.
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 ...
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, ...
TDP and MIST
TDP and the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology (MIST)
MIT's Technology and Development Program (TDP) is participating in a new program to assist the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology (MIST) to establish a graduate science and engineering program in Abu Dhabi, UAE, focused on renewable energy and sustainable ...
BUILDING TECHNOLOGY, TALENT AND POLICY BRIDGES TO A ...
BUILDING TECHNOLOGY, TALENT AND POLICY BRIDGES TO A LOW"CARBON FUTURE
04/12/2008 12:15 PM James Rogers, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Duke EnergyDescription: After 20"plus years in the utility industry, James Rogers is emphatic that we must "build a bridge to a low carbon world." He confesses to a missionary zeal ...
Speed and Scale
Speed and Scale
04/12/2008 8:00 AM John Doerr, Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & ByersDescription: In turn pragmatic and visionary, John Doerr describes his venture capital firm's response to the climate change/clean energy challenge, while answering a range of questions from an entrepreneurial and ...
Building Responsive Cities: Technology, Design, and ...
Building Responsive Cities: Technology, Design, and Development
04/04/2008 1:30 PM Broad InstituteDennis Frenchman, MCP '76, MAA '76, Leventhal Professor of Urban Design and Planning, Director, City Design and Development, MIT; Antonio di Mambro, '71, MAA '77, MCP '77, Principal, Antonio di Mambro+ Associates; Martha Lampkine ...
Sustaining Cities: Environment, Economic Development, and ...
Sustaining Cities: Environment, Economic Development, and Empowerment
04/04/2008 10:30 AM Broad InstituteJudith Layzer, PhD '99, Linde Career Development Associate Professor of Environmental Policy; Jason Corburn, MCP '96, PhD '02, Assistant Professor, Department of City and Regional Planning, University of California, Berkeley; J. ...
Manufacturing Seminar, 3/06/08, Erin MacDonald
Manufacturing Seminar, 3/06/08, Erin MacDonald
The Construction of Preference in Engineering Design and Implications for Green ProductsMIT SEMINAR SERIES IN MANUFACTURING AND PRODUCTIVITY Place: Given Lounge, Room 35-520 Time: 12:00 P.M. Thursday, March 6th, 2008 Dr. Erin MacDonaldDept. of Mechanical Engineering, ...
Part 1: MIT Innovations in Management: Strategies for ...
Part 1: MIT Innovations in Management: Strategies for Sustainable Business ...
Dec. 5-6, 2007 Part 1 Sustainability is no longer relegated to offices that handle isolated issues like waste management or corporate charitable giving. Innovative leaders from a wide range of industries and functional areas are recognizing they can improve their ...
Agents of Change: Model Partnerships with Academia
Agents of Change: Model Partnerships with Academia
01/30/2008 9:45 AM 32"123Joanne Kauffman, PhD '97, Advisor and former Executive Director, Alliance for Global Sustainability; Lennart Billfalk, Senior Advisor, Vattenfall AB; Theodore Smith, Executive Director, Henry P. Kendall Foundation; Elizabeth Kolbert, Staff ...
Why Bad Things Happen to Good Technologies
Why Bad Things Happen to Good Technologies
01/30/2008 9:00 AM 32"123John Sterman, PhD '82, Forrester Professor of Management and Engineering Systems, and; Director, System Dynamics Group, MIT Description: John Sterman pokes holes through some popular proposals for addressing climate change, with sobering case ...
How Would Climate Change Influence Society in the 21st ...
How Would Climate Change Influence Society in the 21st Century?
01/29/2008 9:00 AM 32"123Rajendra K. Pachauri, Chairman, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate; Change and Director"General, The Energy and Resources Institute; Dr. Susan Hockfield, President, MITDescription: The rising public awareness of climate change, says MIT ...
How Would Climate Change Influence Society in the 21st ...
How Would Climate Change Influence Society in the 21st Century? (Panel)
01/29/2008 9:45 AM 32"123Rajendra K. Pachauri, Chairman, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate; Change and Director"General, The Energy and Resources Institute; John Reilly, MIT Sloan School of Management; William Moomaw, PhD '65, Director of the Center for ...
Implementing Sustainability Strategies
Implementing Sustainability Strategies
12/06/2007 10:45 AM Wong AuditoriumPeter Senge, SM '72, PhD '78, Senior Lecturer MIT. Founding Chair of the Society for Organizational Learning; Wayne Balta, SM '84, Vice President, IBM Corporation; Mark Buckley, VP Environmental Affairs, Staples; Kevin Moss, BT Global ServicesDescription: ...
Stuck: Why It's So Hard to Do New Things in Old ...
Stuck: Why It's So Hard to Do New Things in Old Organizations
12/06/2007 8:30 AM Wong AuditoriumRebecca M. Henderson, '81, Eastman Kodak LFM Professor of ManagementDescription: After 20 years studying large organizations that undertake significant transformations, Rebecca Henderson has of late turned her attention to the issue ...