Managing Sustainable Businesses for People and Profits

This course examines opportunities and challenges involved in building and growing businesses that achieve high financial performance and returns to society. It is an anchor course for the social dimensions of sustainability and serves as an elective Sloans Sustainability Certificate program.  Through readings, cases, simulations and class visits from industry leaders, students explore the underlying principles and business practices that help to secure that alignment between business health and societal wellbeing.

Students Attend Geneva Global Mercuty Negotiations

Submitted by Ezra Glenn on Mon, 01/14/2013 - 10:49am

A group of MIT students and faculty, including Leah Stokes and Danya Rumore (both DUSP PhD candidates in Environmental Policy and Planning)are attending the negotiations for a global treaty on mercury, which are taking place in Geneva from 13-18 January, 2013. Their goal is to help present the latest scientific results for the information of negotiators. You can follow their progress on their blog and twitter.

New Approaches to Social Science Research Discussion Group

NEW APPROACHES TO SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH  (And Their Implications for Doctoral Study in the Applied Social Sciences) Discussion group led by Larry Susskind, Ford Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning, DUSP.  Sponsored by MIT CoLab and URBAN.  Substantial challenges have been raised over the past decade to traditional models and strategies of applied social research.   These challenges go by many names including Phronesis (from Aristotle) and Participatory Action Research (PAR).

New Approaches to Social Science Research Discussion Group

NEW APPROACHES TO SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH  (And Their Implications for Doctoral Study in the Applied Social Sciences) Discussion group led by Larry Susskind, Ford Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning, DUSP.  Sponsored by MIT CoLab and URBAN.  Substantial challenges have been raised over the past decade to traditional models and strategies of applied social research.   These challenges go by many names including Phronesis (from Aristotle) and Participatory Action Research (PAR).

New Approaches to Social Science Research Discussion Group

NEW APPROACHES TO SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH  (And Their Implications for Doctoral Study in the Applied Social Sciences) Discussion group led by Larry Susskind, Ford Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning, DUSP.  Sponsored by MIT CoLab and URBAN.  Substantial challenges have been raised over the past decade to traditional models and strategies of applied social research.   These challenges go by many names including Phronesis (from Aristotle) and Participatory Action Research (PAR).

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