12:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
CONVOCATION REGISTRATION AND CHECK-IN: at MIT Faculty Club
6th Floor Building E-52, 50 Memorial Drive, Cambridge MA 02142
On display: Scale model, architectural drawings and a great view of MIT Sloan's future home, currently under construction. The new building is both impressive for its architecture and for its design as a high performance building, with environmental elements that should achieve LEED certification.
Also on display: For the benefit of MIT Sloan alumni, the current Sloan Fellows class has developed a presentation illustrating some of the exciting MIT innovations related to energy and sustainability.
Departing - 1:00 p.m. & 3:00 p.m.
OPTIONAL SF09 “GREEN CAMPUS” TOURS: Join this rare opportunity to learn about some of MIT's high performance buildings that are winning acclaim for their design as well as their contributions to MIT"s efforts to reduce its operating costs and shrink its environmental footprint.
We shall begin at the Stata Center, a LEED Silver building designed by Frank Gehry, with its iconic fluid shapes; walk over a biofiltration raingarden that supplies "gray" water to Stata's bathrooms; visit the Chem Lab with its innovative cost and energy saving features; move on to the Brain and Cognitive Sciences Building, also LEED Silver, with its soaring, daylit atrium that straddles the railroad tracks; and finish off at MIT's unique co-generation plant.
Much is being done on campus to achieve green and sustainable; these buildings are unique research and learning spaces that create healthy, dynamic and beautiful interiors conducive to the creativity that drives innovation at MIT. Tours will leave from the Faculty Club at 1:00pm and 3:00pm. Space is limited, so please contact us to secure your space on one of these tours. Tours will last approximately 1.5 hours.
5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
WELCOME BACK RECEPTION: “Walking the Talk”
100 West Second St., Boston, MA 02127
Place: Located at the “Artists for Humanity” (AFH) Epicenter, Boston's first LEED Platinum building, this micro-enterprise helps at-risk youth secure their futures through their talent in the creative arts. You will have a chance to hear the founder and meet some of the artists.
Hosts: Dean David Schmittlein, John C Head III Dean, MIT Sloan School of Management
Transportation: Buses, with tour guides from AFH, will leave from the Faculty Club and from the participating hotels listed on our Logistics Page — check the site for a schedule of departures. Or take the “T” to the Broadway stop on the Red Line, just a few stops from the Kendall/MIT Station.
Travel Time: Allow 45-55 minutes by car or 20 minutes by “T” from Kendall Square
Attire: Business Casual
8:00 p.m.+
OPTIONAL SF '09 INTEREST GROUP DINNERS
Want to get to know current class members and explore issues of common interest? Join one of the SF '09 themed, moderated “no host” dinners to be held at local restaurants following the opening reception. The topics are listed below.
To secure your place at the table, please sign up when you register. Please note that the cost of these dinners is NOT included in your Convocation registration.
*Please contact us if interested.
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CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST & REGISTRATION
Kresge Auditorium, Building W16-109, 48 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139
Attire: Business Casual
On Display: More cool innovations developed by MIT students, from the foldable, stackable electric City Car to solar turbines for the developing world.
8:45 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.
WELCOME ADDRESS
Kresge Auditorium
Dave Schmittlein, John C Head III Dean, MIT Sloan School of Management
9:00 a.m. - 9:10 a.m.
OVERVIEW
Sustainability: The Next Management Frontier
Prof. Richard M. Locke, Alvin J Siteman Professor of Entrepreneurship and Professor of Political Science; Faculty Director of the MIT Sloan Fellows Program
9:10 a.m. - 10:25 a.m.
SESSION ONE: Climate Change: Challenges and Opportunities for Business and Society
Session Summary: Climate change poses serious challenges to individuals, businesses and society. To reduce the risk of further harmful climate change, emissions of greenhouse gases worldwide must fall substantially within the next few decades. Doing so poses significant technical, economic, political and social challenges — but also creates tremendous opportunities for innovation, entrepreneurship and economic renewal. We'll discuss the threats and particularly the opportunities, both for the large-scale deployment of renewable, carbon-neutral energy and for international agreements to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Panelists: John Sterman, Jay W. Forrester Professor of Management and Director of MIT System Dynamics Group
Vladimir Bulovic, KDD Associate Professor of Communications and Technology, MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Kevin Moss, Head of Corporate Social Responsibility, BT Americas
10:25 - 10:40 a.m.
BREAK
10:40 a.m. - 11:20 a.m.
SUSTAINABILITY: What Does It Mean to GM?
Summary: Address by Gary Cowger, SF ’78, Group Vice President of Global Manufacturing and Labor Relations, General Motors Corp
11:20 a.m. - 12:35 p.m.
SESSION TWO: Opportunities in Building More Sustainable Supply Chains
Session Summary: This panel will describe both on-going research by MIT faculty on reconfiguring existing supply/value chains in an array of different industries (apparel, footwear, agriculture, electronics) to make them more environmentally and socially sustainable. In addition, we will discuss the experiences of Wal-Mart Central America, one of the region's largest companies, on their efforts to adapt their supply chain and operations in the face of the challenges and opportunities posed by climate change.
Panelists: Richard M. Locke, Alvin J Siteman Professor of Entrepreneurship and Professor of Political Science; Faculty Director of the MIT Sloan Fellows Program
Fernando Paiz, SF ’89,Vice President, Wal-Mart Central America
Bonnie Nixon-Gardiner, Director, Hewlett Packard Ethical Sourcing
12:35 - 1:35 p.m.
LUNCH Kresge Grounds Tent
Address by Dr. J Michael McQuade, Senior Vice President, Science and Technology, United Technologies Corporation
Address Summary: United Technologies Corporation believes conservation through greater efficiency offers an immediate solution to significantly impact climate change and support sustainable development. During the luncheon session, Dr. J. Michael McQuade will discuss sustainability issues and how we can improve energy efficiency — particularly in the building sector, which on average consumes 40 percent of the world's energy. He'll also describe UTC's efforts to increase efficiency across its product line.
1:45 - 2:45 p.m.
SESSION THREE: Getting Unstuck: How to Promote More Sustainable Practices in Our Organizations
Session Summary: Why is it sometimes so difficult to get things done, even when everyone is convinced they are worth doing? This talk will explore why it is that firms get “stuck” in the first place and will then turn to a discussion of how firms can best get “unstuck” — with a particular focus on the organizational and economic barriers that stand in the way of implementing sustainability initiatives in chronically overloaded organizations.
Speaker: Rebecca Henderson, Eastman Kodak LFM Professor of Management
2:45 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
SESSION FOUR: Opportunities in Infrastructure and Built Environment
Summary: This session will focus on new strategies for sustainable infrastructure and the built environment that not only reduce business risk but also reduce resource use and encourage economic development. These strategies often require collaboration and coordination of multiple organizations in a region and can provide both significant disaster resiliency and greatly improved economies.
Panelists: Sarah Slaughter, Senior Lecturer
Prof. Judith Layzer, Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Milton Bevington, Domain Director, Building Retrofit Program, Clinton Climate Initiative, Clinton Foundation
Bill Sisson, SF ’99, Director of Sustainability United Technologies Corporation
4:00 p.m. - 4:15 p.m.
BREAK
4:15 p.m. - 5:30pm
SESSION FIVE: Walking the Talk
Summary: Through its research, MIT develops new technologies to create a more sustainable world — and strategies for their success in the marketplace. This panel focuses on what we are doing here on the campus to walk the talk. We'll discuss the exciting ways in which students, faculty, staff, and the administration are working together to reduce MIT's own energy use and environmental footprint.
Panelists: John Sterman, Jay W. Forrester Professor of Management and Director of MIT System Dynamics Group
Theresa Stone, Executive VP, MIT, and Sloan class of 1976
Jason Jay, MIT Sloan Doctoral Candidate
Anna Jaffe, MIT Undergraduate Class of 2008
Adam Siegel, MBA Class of 2008
5:30 - 6:00 p.m.
CLOSING REMARKS
John Sterman, Jay W. Forrester Professor of Management and Director of MIT System Dynamics Group
6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
“CELEBRATING OUR ALUMNI” COCKTAIL RECEPTION
Kresge Grounds Tent
7:30 a.m. - 8:30
CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
Tang Foyer
Building E51, 70 Memorial Drive, Cambridge MA 02142
(Entrance at Wadsworth and Amherst Streets)
Attire: Casual
8:45 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
BACK TO THE CLASSROOM WITH YOUR FAVORITE MIT SLOAN FACULTY
Classrooms in Building E51
8:45 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
SUSTAINABILITY SESSIONS
Classrooms in Building E51 (the Tang Center)
Sessions will be offered at 8:45 a.m. and 10:45 a.m.
Summary: As an alternative to the Back to the Classroom sessions, guests are invited to learn more about how sustainability is working in the corporate and capital markets.
12:30 - 1:30 p.m.
FAREWELL LUNCH: NEW ENGLAND CLAMBAKE
Kresge Grounds Tent
Please join us for this final send-off lunch of local New England
favorites: lobster, clams, chowder and more!
Hosts: MIT Sloan Fellows Board of Governors and the Program Office
Transportation: Buses will be available to transport alumni from Sloan to the Kresge Grounds Tent after the “Back to the Classroom” sessions.
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