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...
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...
Floodlight, a geospatial data intelligence company that provides ESG governance insights, asked a team of E-Lab students to identify potential new market segments and design potential customer discovery interviews. According to CEO and co-founder Nate Wyne, the project resulted in a "full redirectio...
City Builder® by Citi's goal is to provide transparent key metrics that help investors make community development–driven decisions. Citi Ventures turned to five Proseminar in Corporate Finance/Investment Management students for help investigating ways to track ESG data for City Builder's investment ...
While planning to launch a new commercial and industrial solar investment corporation, CleanCapital turned to the Proseminar in Corporate Finance for help developing an optimal dividend payout model.
“Telem” means “safe space” in Sierra Leone. The music collective Telem Uncommon Sounds is trying to create just that, nurturing a more open and experimental creative community in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Working with musicians, government, and other ecosystem stakeholders, Telem works to provide more...
Percival Barretto-Ko, SF ’11 on the ways companies can build effective and sustainable DEI initiatives.
The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) has seen rapid socioeconomic growth due to oil and gas revenues, but diversification has been at the top of economic growth agendas for over a decade now. GCC countries are increasingly encouraging entrepreneurship and innovation as a pathway to achieving diversity...
Zach Tan, a first-year doctoral student in the Economic Sociology research group at the MIT Sloan School of Management, has won the 2024 Rafel Lucea Memorial Research Award.
MBA student, Pervez Agwan, dives deep into the MIT Sloan ecosystem, an ecosystem that is about impact and a strong sense of community.
