MIT Innovations in Management Conference

Strategies for Sustainable Business Practice

Dec. 5-6, 2007

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 business by embracing sustainable business practices.

How are they doing it? How can eco-friendly, socially responsible business practices translate to your bottom line? Where are the most promising areas of business opportunity today? Are there frameworks that can help you identify sustainable strategies that fit your corporate footprint?

These were issues addressed at the 2007 MIT Innovations in Management Conference: Strategies for Sustainable Business on December 5-6, 2007, at the MIT campus in Cambridge, Mass.

Drawing from ongoing research at the MIT Sloan School of Management and technology innovations unique to MIT, attendees learned about strategies and opportunities in three areas:

Alternative energy
Sustainability in the supply chain
Sustainable infrastructure and the built environment

Conference video

Day 2: Mobilizing the Organization (approx 63 minutes): Strategy and Sustainability, featuring Rebecca M. Henderson, Eastman Kodak LFM Professor of Management at MIT Sloan. Introduction by Richard M. Locke, Alvin J. Siteman Professor of Entrepreneurship and Political Science at MIT Sloan.

Day 2: Mobilizing the Organization (approx 90 minutes): Strategy and Sustainability: Panel Discussion, featuring Wayne Balta of IBM, Mark Buckley of Staples, and Kevin Moss of BT Global Services. Moderated by Peter Senge, MIT Sloan senior lecturer and chairman of the Society for Organizational Learning. Introduction by Richard M. Locke, Alvin J. Siteman Professor of Entrepreneurship and Political Science at MIT Sloan.

Sustainability at MIT Sloan