Four MIT students were selected to participate in the Queensland University of Technology International Collaboration Sprint, where they worked together in international, cross-discipline, multi-university teams to address a pressing challenge. Click the link below to hear their stories and learn mo...

As the newly minted senior director of recycling and sustainability at Staples Stores, Mike Sauchuk’s first challenge was to develop a strategy that moved the company’s green initiatives forward and also aligned with its business objectives. After learning about the Sustainability Initiative at MIT ...

Takeda is a global biopharmaceutical corporation with an ambitious zero-waste-to-landfill goal. BioLife, a subsidiary of Takeda, sought to develop prioritized recycling strategies in support of Takeda’s sustainability pledge and goals. A team of three Sustainable Business Lab (S-Lab) students tackle...

Marta Ortega-Valle, SF ’08, is addressing one of the most pressing challenges faced by farmers: crop threats. She co-founded GreenLight Biosciences with fellow MIT alumni to help farmers create sustainable agricultural systems through the integration of science with technology.

After graduating from the MIT Sloan School of Management, classmates Shayna Harris, MBA '11, and Noramay Cadena, LGO '11, set off on their own varied career paths in food and supply chain operations, aerospace engineering, and venture capital.

Rubén Lozano Aguilera, MBA ’13 identified pollution as a key challenge for the future of transportation in urban areas. With the introduction of eco-friendly routes on Google Maps, Lozano Aguilera and team have prevented an estimated 2.4MM+ metric tons of CO2 emissions—equivalent to removing 500K fu...

The MIT Climate Pathways Project has been selected by the Paris Peace Forum as one of 10 civil society projects that over the coming year will receive customized advisory support from the Forum’s Scale-up Program, an accelerator program that aims to help these projects increase their visibility and...

Jeff Tedmori, MBA ’20, never thought his entrepreneurial journey would take him to the London set of ‘Gordon Ramsay’s Food Stars’.

Deepak Dugar, SM ’11, MBA ’13, PhD ’13, is leading a transformative effort in material production, by replacing petroleum not just as a fuel but as a material. He’s doing this through combining synthetic biology with chemical catalysis to reinvent the way the world makes things—and reducing gigatons...