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Resolute Marine Energy (RME) founder and CEO Bill Staby and COO Olivier Ceberio believed their company’s wave energy desalination system could provide safe and affordable drinking water to water-stressed communities. They set their sights on launching RME’s Wave2O system in Ugu, South Africa, popula...
To promote his company's sustainability story, which they hadn’t yet quantified, Ed Fish (MBA '15) turned to a team of S-Lab students for help.
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Machine learning can drive climate action initiatives, but its widespread use could have negative implications, according to Climate Change AI’s Priya Donti.
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A roundup of actionable steps and useful advice from MIT Sloan to help managers lead purpose-driven organizations.
Our community is tethered by our reliance on our planet — and each other. As we celebrate a decade of our Sustainability Certificate, we're proud to share these stories of leaders taking action.
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In late 2008, Vermont City Electric (VCE), a municipal electric utility company, needed to determine which investments in demand-side management (DSM) programs to undertake in the context of the budget restrictions it faced. Based on the information contained in the case, students must construct and...
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MIT experts explain how generative AI — and AI generally — could transform enterprises this year, as well as how to set realistic environmental goals.
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In the early 2010s, First Solar, a leading photovoltaic (PV) solar manufacturer, faced a series of challenges: expanding production by subsidized Chinese PV manufacturers; declining purchase subsidies in important European markets; and, declining prices for silicon, the key input raw material for it...
Fishbanks is a multiplayer web-based simulation in which participants play the role of fishers and seek to maximize their net worth as they compete against other players and deal with variations in fish stocks and their catch. Participants buy, sell, and build ships; decide where to fish; and negoti...
In this live, web-based simulation, participants play the role of the founder of a new startup company in the exciting and competitive clean tech sector. Can you develop your technology into a successful company? Each quarter you must set prices, decide how many engineers and sales people to hire, a...
