Results for Corporate social responsibility:
Department: Senior Lecturer, Managerial Communication
Contact: (617) 253-8624, nhartman@mit.edu
Expertise: Asia; B-school; Business education; Business ethics; Change management; China; Communication practices; Conflict management; Corporate social responsibility; Cross-cultural awareness; Cultural differences; Diversity; E-mail; Electronic communication; Ethics; Gender issues, workplace; Globalization; Hiring; International communication; International management; Korea; Leadership; Managerial communication; Managing change; Managing diversity; Motivation; Negotiation and conflict resolution; Organizational communication; Organizational culture; Taiwan; Teams; United Kingdom; Writing and presentation skills
Class of 1922 Professor of Political Science and Management
Department: Head, Department of Political Science
Contact: (617) 253-2610, rlocke@mit.edu
Expertise: Brazil; Business ethics; Corporate social responsibility; Developing countries, economics; Education; Energy; Environment; Environmental leadership; Europe; Future of work; Global entrepreneurship; Global trade standards; Globalization; Green industries; Human resource management; International entrepreneurship; Italy; Labor relations; Latin America; MBA; NGOs; Organizational change; Political economy; Social networks; Socially responsible business; Supply chain management; Sustainability; Worker / Management relations
Department: Senior Lecturer, Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management
Contact: (617) 970-6346, awolk@rootcause.org
Expertise: Bermuda; Breakthrough management; Business education; Business ethics; Competitive strategy; Energy; Environment; Environmental leadership; Ethics; Family business; Global entrepreneurship; Hiring; K-12 education; Leadership; Management effectiveness, measuring; Non-profits; Social entrepreneurship; Sustainability; Transportation; Unemployment
Companies sometimes regard sustainability as "metaphoric low-hanging fruit," says moderator Peter Senge, and reach for a few easy targets to achieve cosmetic improvements. His three panelists describe how their corporations are attempting to embrace sustainability as more than just another high-profile, low-impact initiative that "goes right into an overloaded bucket."
If "organizations are the way that ideas change the world," as MIT Sloan Dean Dave Schmittlein puts it, then look to institutions like MIT, which has wrapped its arms around the issues of energy and climate change, to help make sustainability real and attainable. The Dean describes some showcase work launched at MIT, including a long-lasting battery for electric cars, and MIT's own green campus efforts.
Mahatma Gandhi said, "Be the change you want to see in the world." That's not necessarily a quote you'd expect to hear from the CEO of a global service company speaking to business school students. But that's precisely the message Marilyn Carlson Nelson brought to MIT Sloan during her March 2006 Dean's Innovative Leader Series appearance, presented here. Nelson heads the Carlson Companies, a privately held parent corporation of global integrated service companies. She's also a widely recognized leader in corporate social responsibility. Carlson Companies, she said, is very much attuned to the implications of its operations for the environment and people across the globe. She urged students to take the same path, asking them to focus on business models aimed at both profitability and improving the world. "You have a tremendous opportunity to use power for good," she said. Nelson is introduced by MIT Sloan Professor Gabriel Bitran.
Contact us.
Paul Denning
Director of Media
Relations
617.253.0576
denning@mit.edu
Patricia Favreau
Associate Director of
Media Relations
617.253.3492
pfavreau@mit.edu
