sustainability is just, GOOD business

Financial Times' "Responsible Business Education Awards" recognized two outstanding Smeal research faculty--Charlene Zietsma and Karen Winterich--as runners up for their leading work in sustainable business research. The Financial Times Responsible Business Education Awards "showcase strong examples of work by business schools seeking to focus on people and planet alongside profit" in three areas: Teaching cases Research with impact Alumni change makers Research with Impact T

Last year I read an incredible book Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer, an enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation and SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology, and founder and director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment. About two weeks later, I received an invitation to be a panelist for “`Carlisle in Reverse’: Returning to a Sustainable Future” CALS

We are passionate about two things: the power of business to change the world and the potential of hands-on learning to inspire and equip students to harness and direct this power. Our case competitions--grad students in the fall and undergrads in the spring--are a key platform for realizing both. This spring our competition has a great twist to it. This spring the Undergraduate Sustainable Business Case Competition is bring organized with our friends at the Smeal Diversity