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Sustainable Brands Community Reveals Leading-Edge Business Performance Metrics
Sustainable Brands Community Reveals Leading-Edge Business Performance Metrics
Published on September 25, 2014
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The Sustainable Brands® community announces several initiatives focused on identifying, measuring and quantifying entirely new forms of business risk and value. Global senior executives across diverse industry sectors are convening at New Metrics �... View More

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MIT Sloan MBA program draws highest female percentage in school history
MIT Sloan MBA program draws highest female percentage in school history
Published on September 18, 2014
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Women seek to make all business sectors more “female friendly”New MIT Sloan students at orientation in August They comprise the highest ever female percentage of an entering MBA class at MIT Sloan, but some of the women now beginning their studi... View More

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Air pollution and CO2 reduction policies net same health benefits
Air pollution and CO2 reduction policies net same health benefits
Published on September 18, 2014
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Study: Cutting emissions pays for itselfSavings from healthier air can make up for some or all of the cost of carbon-reduction policies. ... View More

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A liquid metal battery for grid-level energy storage
A liquid metal battery for grid-level energy storage
Published on September 18, 2014
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Re-inventing the grid ... View More

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MIT's digital supply chain MOOC set for global launch
MIT's digital supply chain MOOC set for global launch
Published on September 16, 2014
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Chris Caplice, executive director of the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics, will teach CTL.SC1x Supply Chain and Logistics Fundamentals to more than 9,000 online students.  ... View More

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MIT Sloan expert on why paternity leave matters
MIT Sloan expert on why paternity leave matters
Published on September 16, 2014
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Getting away from the cult of motherhood: Why paternity leave is so important — Lotte Bailyn Sports radio isn’t a typical venue for impassioned debate on work-family issues and employment policy. But recently when Daniel Murphy took three days ... View More

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Crowdsourcing solutions for global problems with ClimateCoLab
Crowdsourcing solutions for global problems with ClimateCoLab
Published on September 16, 2014
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Online voting open in 18 contests addressing climate changeVoting is open in the fourth annual Climate CoLab contests, a series of crowdsourced competitions addressing specific aspects of climate change. The contests rely on the power of collective i... View More

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From chemical detoxifiers to sustainable biorefineries: new materials derived from or inspired by biology
From chemical detoxifiers to sustainable biorefineries: new materials derived from or inspired by biology
Published on September 15, 2014
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Following biological clues to better materialsMIT Professor Brad Olsen creates bioinspired and biofunctional materials for widely diverse applications.  ... View More

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MIT Professor recognized for micro-building services: distributed, versatile public amenities
MIT Professor recognized for micro-building services: distributed, versatile public amenities
Published on September 15, 2014
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Sheila Kennedy honored for design innovationExploring intersections of architecture, digital networks and public space  ... View More

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Novozymes joins the top 3 percentile in new Dow Jones Sustainability Index category
Novozymes joins the top 3 percentile in new Dow Jones Sustainability Index category
Published on September 15, 2014
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The Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI) announced that Novozymes received 86 points out of 100 within their new category, the Chemical Industry Sector. Novozymes’ score is in the top 3 percentile of sustainability leaders in their sector. This ye... View More

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MIT Sloan Social Entrepreneurship Students Recognized for Foodwaste Prevention & Innovation
MIT Sloan Social Entrepreneurship Students Recognized for Foodwaste Prevention & Innovation
Published on September 11, 2014
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Meet Ricky Ashenfelter of Spoiler Alert, Runner-Up for the CommonBond Social Impact AwardThis year marked the first-ever CommonBond Social Impact Award for the country’s top MBA social entrepreneur, for which we received over 600 nominations in jus... View More

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Where Economy Meets Ecology
Where Economy Meets Ecology
Published on September 11, 2014
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Think of a city as a complex organism powered by human activities and consumption. John E. Fernández, associate professor in the Department of Architecture, wants to understand how the urban metabolism works—what it needs in terms of energy, mater... View More

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BASF’s Product Portfolio Evaluated for Sustainability
BASF’s Product Portfolio Evaluated for Sustainability
Published on September 10, 2014
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Around 50,000 product applications analyzed using new method More than 20% of BASF products analyzed (by sales) today already make a particular contribution to sustainability In order to better help its customers align environmental and societal aspe... View More

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What’s Your Sustainability Personality?
What’s Your Sustainability Personality?
Published on September 4, 2014
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From planting trees in community gardens or supporting disaster relief efforts, to mentoring start-up businesses or starting a recycling program at work, everyone has a cause that's important to them. ... View More

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CollaborateUp, in partnership with Global Impact, presents CollaborateUp Academy
CollaborateUp, in partnership with Global Impact, presents CollaborateUp Academy
Published on August 25, 2014
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Collaboration takes work.  It also takes practice, trial and error, and experiential learning.  We adapted rapid development tools to accelerate this learning in a 2.5-day Certified Collaborator executive education program that provides hands-on ex... View More

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HP Living Progress Exchange at the SB'14 San Diego Activation Hub
HP Living Progress Exchange at the SB'14 San Diego Activation Hub
Published on August 20, 2014
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This year in the Activation Hub at SB'14 San Diego, HP Introduced their Living Progress Exchange and Held Robust Conversations in the Glass House Cross-industry and organizational leaders from The Timberland Co., SAP, UPS, Kiva, REI, PwC, Conservatio... View More

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Sustainable Brands® Community to Showcase New Business Performance Metrics
Sustainable Brands® Community to Showcase New Business Performance Metrics
Published on August 6, 2014
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Sustainable Brands® recently announced the program and conversation leaders for its annual Sustainable Brands New Metrics’14 conference, scheduled for September 24-26 in Boston, MA. In partnership with MIT Sloan School of Management Sustainability... View More

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ASU awarding scholarships for Executive Master’s for Sustainability Leadership degree
ASU awarding scholarships for Executive Master’s for Sustainability Leadership degree
Published on July 31, 2014
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TEMPE, Ariz. – July 31, 2014 – Through generous funding provided by the Rob and Melani Walton Fund of the Walton Family Foundation, Arizona State University will award a limited number of $15,000 Walton Sustainability Executive Scholarships to mi... View More

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Jacquie Ottman Celebrates 25 Years in Green Marketing
Jacquie Ottman Celebrates 25 Years in Green Marketing
Published on July 24, 2014
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Jacquie Ottman pioneered green marketing when she hung out a shingle for J. Ottman Consulting on July 28, 1989. And she’s been a member of the Sustainable Brands community since its inception.She’s written five books on green marketing, including... View More

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Novozymes wins textile innovation award for sustainable process improvements
Novozymes wins textile innovation award for sustainable process improvements
Published on July 22, 2014
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The Society of Dyers and Colorists (SDC) revealed the winners of their annual innovation award recently in York, UK. As the world’s leading educational charity dedicated to advancing the science and technology of color worldwide, the SDC award reco... View More

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