Furniture giant Wayfair is committed not only to providing customers with a wide variety of quality products, but reevaluating and improving their own processes as well. That’s why they initially tasked a team of MIT Sloan Action Learning Operations Lab (Ops-Lab) students with streamlining their Way...
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 ...
In March, Senior Lecturer and MIT Sloan Sustainability Initiative Director Jason Jay, PhD ’10, demonstrated the En-ROADS simulation tool at the MIT Better World (Sustainability) virtual event.
How do you make and sell products that lead to business profitability—without further damaging the environment? Janelle Heslop, LGO ’19, didn’t just tackle this in her graduate thesis at MIT. She’s planning on making a career out of it.
The book "Overload: How Good Jobs Went Bad and What We Can Do About It" by MIT Sloan Professor Erin L. Kelly and University of Minnesota Professor Phyllis Moen is one of two winners of the 2021 Max Weber Award for Distinguished Scholarship.
Five steps toward a critical mass of directors who understand.
Funding from Dean’s Circle donors benefits initiatives and centers across MIT Sloan, in Cambridge—and beyond—including the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship’s MIT delta v program.
Club Demonstration Services (CDS), the powerhouse partner behind retail giant Costco, provides product samples and demos in more than 800 Costco warehouses across 12 countries, with a strong focus on food. There’s just one problem: Demonstrations, food especially, appeal to in-person customers. The ...
With wind and solar cheaper and more prevalent, political willpower is what’s needed now to clean up the power grid, says climate activist Bill McKibben.
In TEDxCambridge talk, Andrew McAfee highlights benefits of 'dematerialization.'
