sustainability is just, GOOD business

Cold temperatures always have a way of reviving the once-dead notion that: "if the climate is changing why is it so cold outside?" And it's cousin: "we could sure use some of that global warming right now!" Quick tutorial here so you can remind yourself--and others around the holiday table--that extreme cold isn't proof that climate isn't happening. It's rather the opposite, as you will soon see, and it's not hard to understand. At the Center for the Business of Sustainabili

Smeal College of Business is pleased to announce the winners of the MBA Sustainability Case Competition for Fall 2022. Since 2016, the national Smeal MBA Sustainability Case Competition has engaged over 1,000 MBA and graduate students in business, challenging them to engage with today's greatest opportunities for environmental and social innovation through business. We are passionate about giving students hands-on experience using the tools of business to advance social justi

COP27: The Losses and Damages of Business as Usual The 2022 UN Climate Change Conference - widely known as COP27 - held in November focused on the rising environmental and societal implications of climate change. Held in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, COP27 was 13 days of discussions addressing the state of the climate and progress toward meeting emission reduction goals with an eye toward 2030, the "deadline", so to speak, set for a global reduction of emissions to keep global temp