Changing the World With Systems Thinking
Alumnae and friends from around the globe gathered online in January to discuss how they could come together to identify global problems and take action.
Alumnae and friends from around the globe gathered online in January to discuss how they could come together to identify global problems and take action.
Friedemann “Friedi” Pfeiffer, EMBA ’20 is the Head of Finance for North America at WTW in Boston, Massachusetts.
Mayor Miro Weinberger of Burlington, VT is showing how the En-ROADS climate solution simulator—a global model—can be useful to decision-makers at the local level.
Lydia Li is investing in sustainable infrastructure for a clean energy future.
Amy Meyer is working to get companies to practice responsible political engagement.
With his non-profit Browning the Greenspace, Kerry Bowie (MBA '06) is building a coalition of leaders to diversify the green space.
Shayna Harris (MBA '11) has worked for nearly two decades developing sustainable food strategies, leading transformation, and making people’s lives better worldwide.
UNMAS tasked A-Lab with developing a machine learning model that could use satellite imagery to detect the presence of buildings and roads—key indicators of development— in areas of Afghanistan that UNMAS had cleared of explosives.
New research shows that group deliberation guided by interaction with the C-ROADS model can positively influence high school and college students’ climate change knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors.
As the horrors of the Russian invasion of Ukraine played out in front of millions around the globe, five MIT EMBA alumni decided to step in and help. Here’s how they used knowledge gained directly from the program, to developing frameworks to solve some of the country’s most pressing issues.