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STRATEGIES FOR SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS

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Course Dates Format Location Duration Time Commitment Price Oct 31-Nov 2, 2022
In Person Cambridge, MA 3 days 8 hours/day $5,100

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Strategy and Innovation

Certificate Credits

3.0 EEUs

Topics

- Organizations & Leadership

- Strategy & Innovation

- Systems Thinking

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Course Highlights

 * Learn through interactive lectures, case studies, games, diagnostic
   exercises, and deep reflective work
 * The course places current business practices in a socioeconomic context and
   you will walk away with well-grounded strategies for making sustainability a
   reality in your organization, industry, and community
 * You will earn a certificate of course completion from the MIT Sloan School of
   Management

 

Course snapshot



 

Why attend Strategies for Sustainable Business?

For decades, MIT and MIT Sloan have been business sustainability thought
leaders, from Jay Forrester’s work on World Dynamics to our groundbreaking
research on high performance work systems, to the formation of
the Sustainability Initiative at MIT Sloan—an effort that is shaping modern
discourse on sustainability.

Strategies for Sustainable Business connects executives with MIT professors and
researchers who are currently breaking new ground in sustainability thinking and
practice. Faculty combine interactive lectures, case studies, games, diagnostic
exercises, and deep reflective work for a highly engaging experience.
Participants place current business practices in a socioeconomic context and
walk away with well-grounded strategies for making sustainability a reality in
their organizations, industries, and communities.

 

Course Curriculum

 * WHY: This first day focuses on why sustainability is THE challenge of our
   generation, and its materiality to participants’ particular business. Case
   studies reveal how industries are changing to adapt to the business risks—and
   opportunities—presented by megatrends like climate change and globalization.
 * WHAT: Through lectures, discussions, and a hands-on system dynamics
   simulation (“EnRoads”), participants will learn about available strategies at
   the operational level, in their extended supply chain, and across their
   industry. They deepen their understanding of the environmental and social
   dimension of sustainability and the limits of voluntary action.
 * HOW: Participants chart a course toward the “hardwiring” of sustainability in
   their enterprise by building coalitions for change and undertaking process
   improvement. Lectures and discussions draw on the latest research by program
   faculty and include lessons on how to influence organizational culture, run
   experiments, conduct difficult conversations, and engage people to undertake
   important projects. Participants will leave the classroom knowing their next
   steps to move the ball forward.
    

Course experience

This innovative business sustainability program applies a unique MIT Sloan
framework to the topic of environmental and socio-economic sustainability and
uses an engaging mix of interactive lectures, simulation games and action
learning.

Participants leave with practical and impactful strategies for building
consensus and making change, and are empowered to take action on sustainability
from the personal through enterprise level.

Learn more about the in-person course experience.     

We do not recommend this course if you have already completed Business
Sustainability Strategy, unless you are seeking a refresher of the content.

  

Guest speakers



Zeyneb Magavi
Co-Executive Director, Home Energy Efficiency Team (HEET)

In collaboration with gas utilities, Zeyneb focuses on transitioning the natural
gas distribution system to a geothermal energy distribution system using the
GeoMicroDistrict concept. Zeyneb previously led HEET’s Large Volume Leak Study,
which developed a method to rapidly cut emissions from leaking gas pipes. She is
committed to creating and driving forward just and wise solutions to the urgent
challenge of climate change through multi-disciplinary problem solving,
co-creation, and innovation. 

David S. Miller
Executive Managing Director, Clean Energy Venture Group (CEVG)

David is co-Founder and Executive Managing Director of Clean Energy Venture
Group (CEVG), a leading early-stage venture capital fund focused on investing in
companies commercializing disruptive advanced energy technologies that can grow
to scale to address global climate disruption. David has helped lead investments
into and/or served on the board of dozens of clean energy companies, which have
raised hundreds of millions of follow-on capital and have led to successful
growth and acquisitions. He is the founder of several companies, including
Quantum Telecom Solutions. David is a Research Affiliate and Advisory Board
Member for the Sustainability Initiative at MIT Sloan. David received his PhD,
MS and BS from MIT.

Richard Wilner
Head of Business Excellence and Sustainability, BioLife Plasma Services at
Takeda Pharmaceuticals

Richard is the Head of Business Excellence and Sustainability, BioLife Plasma
Services at Takeda Pharmaceuticals. At Takeda, he is responsible for delivering
transformation business performance targets in growth, cost of goods reductions,
and environmental sustainability. Richard received his BS in Electrical
Engineering from Tufts and MS in Electrical Engineering at Northeastern, as well
as his MBA at MIT. 

 

Applying to the course

Please note: The application deadline for this course is 4 days prior to course
start. We accept enrollments until the offering reaches capacity at which point
we will maintain a waitlist. Many of the courses fill up several weeks in
advance, so we advise that you enroll as early as possible to secure your seat.

You can begin the application process by using the red Enroll Now bar at the
bottom of the screen.

 

COVID-19 policies

See our on-campus Covid-19 policies.

 

Have questions?

Contact Us if you would like to speak with a program director or visit our
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courses.

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Hear from a past participant

"I joined this course with the highest expectations, and both professors
exceeded them by far. Their work and ideas on the different dimension of
sustainability gave me a different way to reflect about my professional goals
and even personal beliefs."—Froylan Hernandez-Ruiz, Senior Attorney for the
Latin America Region, The Nature Conservancy

Upon successful completion of your course, you will earn a certificate of
completion from the MIT Sloan School of Management. This course may also count
toward MIT Sloan Executive Certificate requirements.

 

Participants will learn effective strategies for leading and effecting change on
multiple levels—from the individual to the organization to the industry—and how
to apply them effectively in both the short and long term.


In Strategies for Sustainable Business, participants will

 * Gain an appreciation for the key dimensions of unsustainability and leverage
   points for change
 * Learn what strategies for sustainability are available at all levels of the
   organization, and which are most relevant to their organization
 * Understand opportunities for business value creation through more effective,
   sustainable use of natural and human resources and cross-sectoral
   collaboration
 * Learn to assess business strategies and some public policies with a
   distinctive, holistic, and systems-based perspective on sustainability
 * Build an action plan for innovation and continuous improvement on
   sustainability
 * Receive feedback from faculty so that they are better equipped to implement,
   influence, and lead when they return to work

 

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This program is designed for people who have to make a sustainability strategy
happen, including:

 * Functional and business unit leaders from companies committed to
   sustainability goals, who have been charged with advancing sustainability and
   creating value in their area.
 * Investment professionals who are charged with aligning socially responsible
   investments with value and/or who seek to deepen their understanding of
   sustainability in a socioeconomic context.
 * New sustainability professionals who need to get up to speed on strategies
   that promote sustainable business practices.
 * Environmental consultants and professionals who need to better understand how
   to link their practice to the world of business and to prove the value of
   sustainability in the marketplace.
 * NGO and government leaders who want to understand a business-centered but
   cross-sectoral perspective on sustainability.

 



 

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1-10 of 39 Reviews

Rated 5 out of 5
Feb 16, 2022
Insightful and engaging.
Attending this course opened my eyes to a challenging but hopeful reality,
providing me with the knowledge to understand the issues that all of us are
facing and a toolkit to make the world a better place from an environmental,
social, and economic point of view. The format is diverse and appealing, the
facilitators are well-known experts and great speakers, and the content is rich
and relevant.
Victor C.
Rated 5 out of 5
Apr 13, 2021
Thought Provoking!
A really thought provoking course, that really challenges your thinking on
sustainability.
Ranjit S.
Rated 5 out of 5
Apr 13, 2021
Fantastic course, a perfect blend of theory and importantly, how to apply it in
order to scale Sustainability strategies
Katharine H.
Rated 5 out of 5
Oct 27, 2020
Practical strategies, tools, and frameworks presented here will enable you to
advance your personal and / or professional sustainability goals.
Claudiu C.
Rated 5 out of 5
Oct 26, 2020
This course should be taken before all the other courses, because without
sustainability there will be little left to innovate!
Stefano O.
Rated 5 out of 5
Oct 24, 2020
The course emphasizes the need to make changes in our personal and professional
life if we want to avoid the dire consequences of the climate change. In doing
so, it provides the data of not doing anything showing a dystopian future, as
well as –using a dynamic system model- the impact of various policies and
actions on global warming. The course certainly raises sustainability awareness,
provides examples that stimulate ideas with immediate implementation and
provides the motivation to contribute since we can contain the impact of global
warming, if we all act now for protecting our planet. Taught by passionate and
knowledgeable professors, it is educational experience of high value.
Adamantios F.
Rated 5 out of 5
Nov 1, 2019
excellent course to understand macro view and specific case studies on
sustainability. Amazing professors
Tricia C.
Rated 5 out of 5
Oct 31, 2019
This was my first course in mit executive and it was excellent. Thanks a lot !
Omri A.
Rated 5 out of 5
Mar 25, 2019
Becoming a purpose driven organisation is applicable across all sectors. Well
structured programmed aimed at introducing business to become more sustainable.
Well delivered and appropriate case studies. Relevant to all organisation.
Elizabeth H.
Rated 5 out of 5
Mar 22, 2019
This class changed the way I think and approach complex issues and systems.
Though understanding the importance of our planetary sustainability issue, the
Professors gave me for the first time an insightful and holistic view of it. The
faculty and pedagogy are outstanding and of the highest academic and scientific
standards. They also happen to walk the talk and advised us how to integrate
sustainability in our organisations and lives. The most meaningful learning
experience I had in the last years without a doubt.
Tarik M.
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