MIT Sloan Climate + Sustainability
Searching for expert sources on the business of climate change? MIT Sloan faculty have timely insights for global business leaders.
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Chris Knittel’s research pinpoints which U.S. communities have the most carbonintensive workforces that are most vulnerable to economic disruption and in need of government subsidies to support a just transition to a greener economy.
Catherine Wolfram has analyzed climate policy, U.S. energy efficiency programs, effects of environmental regulation on energy markets, and the impact of privatization and restructuring in the U.S. and U.K.
Jason Jay, who has helped advance sustainability strategy with Fortune 500 companies, can share how businesses need to prepare for—and thrive in—a greener future.
Climate + Sustainability Experts
Christopher Knittel
Associate Dean for Climate and Sustainability
Christopher Knittel is the Associate Dean for Climate and Sustainability, the George P. Shultz Professor and a Professor of Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Prior to MIT Sloan, Knittel taught at the University of California,…
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Catherine Wolfram
William Barton Rogers Professor in Energy
Catherine Wolfram is the William Barton Rogers Professor in Energy and a Professor of Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management. She previously served as the Cora Jane Flood Professor of Business Administration at the Haas School of…
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Jason Jay
Hear name pronounced.Senior Lecturer, Work and Organization Studies
Jason Jay, PhD, is the Director of the MIT Sloan Sustainability Initiative and a Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management. His teaching, research, and community-building help people navigate the tensions that arise as we simultaneously…
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Namrata Kala
Digital Equipment Corp. Associate Professor of Management
Namrata Kala is the Digital Equipment Corp. Associate Professor of Management and an Associate Professor in Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management. She is an economist with research interests in environmental and development…
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Robert S. Pindyck
Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi Ltd Professor in Finance and Economics
Robert Pindyck is the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi Ltd. Professor in Finance and Economics and a Professor of Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Pindyck’s most recent research focuses on economic policies related to rare disasters,…
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Gita R. Rao
Senior Lecturer, Finance
Gita Rao is a Senior Lecturer in Finance, and Associate Faculty Director of the Master of Finance program at the MIT Sloan School of Management. She joined the MIT Sloan finance faculty with over two decades of experience in global investing, asset…
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Climate + Sustainability Research
"Environmental Sustainability in Cardiovascular Practice: Current Challenges and Future Directions."
Rajagopalan, Sanjay, Scott McAlister, Jason Jay et al. Nature Reviews Cardiology. Forthcoming.
"Improving Farmers’ Income on Online Agri-Platforms: Evidence from the Field."
Retsef Levi, Manoj Rajan, Somya Singhvi, and Y. Karen Zheng. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management. Forthcoming.
"Nonlinear Conjugate Gradient Methods: Worst-case Convergence Rates via Computer-assisted Analyses."
Das Gupta, Shuvomoy, Robert M. Freund, Andy Sun, and Adrien Taylor. Mathematical Programming. Forthcoming. arXiv Preprint.
"Solvability of Power Flow Equations Through Existence and Uniqueness of Complex Fixed Point."
Cui, Bai , and Xu Andy Sun. Automatica. Forthcoming. arXiv Preprint.
"Using Machine Learning to Target Treatment: The Case of Household Energy Use."
Knittel, Christopher R., and Samuel Stolper. The Economic Journal. Forthcoming. NBER Working Paper.
"Designing Adaptive Backbones: Organizational Choices to Enable Systems Change."
Topic: Sustainability
Fumi, Alessandro and Jason Jay, MIT Sloan Working Paper 7321-25. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, September 2025.
Keywords: Systemic Investing, Backbone Organization, Collective Impact, Investing for Systems Change, Impact Investing, Sustainable Finance, Socio-Technical Systems
"Systemic Investing for Social Change: A Starter Kit."
Topic: Sustainability
Khan, Hibah, Jason Jay, and Kirsten Andersen, MIT Sloan Working Paper 7327-25. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, August 2025.
Keywords: Systemic Investing, Sustainable Finance, Systems Change, Socio-Technical Systems, Impact Investing, Climate Finance, Action Learning
"Incentivizing Smallholder Farmer Sustainability under Behavioral Regularities."
Topic: Supply chain
Shi Yuan, Iskandar Zulkarnaen Siregar, and Y. Karen Zheng, MIT Sloan Working Paper 7335-25. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, August 2025.
Keywords: Contract Design, Behavioral Operations Management, Bounded Rationality, Smallholder Supply Chains, Sustainable Operations, Laboratory-in-the-Field Experiment
"Carbon-Aware Optimal Power Flow."
Chen, Xin, Andy Sun, Wenbo Shi, and Na Li. IEEE Transactions on Power Systems Vol. 40, No. 4 (2025): 3090-3104. arXiv Preprint.
"Building a Research Agenda for Systemic Investing."
Topic: Sustainability
Genç, Janset Nil, Jason Jay, Idongesit Sampson, and Johan Schot, MIT Sloan Working Paper 7326-25. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, June 2025.
Keywords: Systemic Investing, Sustainable Finance, Systems Change, Socio-Technical Systems, Transition Studies, Sustainability, Regenerative Economics, Ecological Economics, Impact Investing, Field Formation, Research Agenda, Transdisciplinary Collaboration, Responsible Investment, Climate Finance