In the second interview of CompetitivEdge, Yasuhiro Karakawa sat down with Mr. Okuya, executive director of Research and Development at Komatsu Seiren, and inquired about greenbiz®, an innovative material receiving attention for its eco-friendly properties that contribute to both energy and cost savings.

CompetitivEdge第二回目のお相手は小松精練株式会社。環境対策・コスト削減の両面に効果があるエコ素材として注目されている「グリーンビズ」について、同社取締役技術開発本部長の奥谷氏にお話を伺いました。

Ms. Burke, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Operational Energy Plans and Programs, discusses the challenges in reducing energy use across the Department of Defense (DOD) and in military operations.

Megan Epler-Wood spoke about her new role as a Senior Professional Fellow at the Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise, as well as her career focused on helping to define and redefine sustainable tourism over the years. Read More..

A group of SGE immersion students learn what it means to lead a sustainable organization with innovative thinking. Read More..

SGE Immersion students visit Opower, a young startup that saves consumers’ money and reduces carbon emissions through transparent energy bills. Read More..

An internship with Accenture Development Partnerships (ADP), a unique program that aims to help non-governmental organizations (NGO) employ innovative management models to strengthen the function of the organization.

His chapter, “Bringing the Bottom of the Pyramid into Business Focus,” addresses the poverty alleviation potential of corporations. Read More..

Innovative finance model and proposal for distributed solar energy put Johnson MBA students in front Read More..

Part II of Burlington-Boston Trek features visits to Harvest Power, Root Capital, and New Balance, and a mixer with dozens of recent alums. Read More..

Part I of SGE Club’s Burlington-Boston Trek includes visits to Ben & Jerry’s, Seventh Generation, My Web Grocer, Native Energy, and Vermont Smoke & Cure. Read More..

CompetitivEdge is a new interview series that aims to introduce world-changing technologies, products, and ideas. In this first interview, we talked with Mr. Kimura, the president of Super Faiths Inc., a Japanese company that recycles used diapers into energy.

The Verge Conference is the place to be if you want to meet innovators and entrepreneurs forging technology advancements in energy, buildings, and transportation. Read More..

貧困、水、食糧、教育、環境など、世界が今直面する様々な課題。それらを解決しうる革新的な技術、製品、アイデアを世の中にご紹介し、新市場開拓のバックアップをしていく。そんな想いから私たちコーネル大学経営大学院ＳＧＥセンターは、このインタビューシリーズ“CompetitivEdge（コンペティティブ・エッジ）“を開始することとなりました。CompetitivEdge第一回目は、「使用済みのオムツを再利用可能エネルギーに転換する」という夢のようなアイデアを形にする装置を開発・販売している株式会社スーパーフェイズ。同社の木村社長にお話を伺いました Read More..

My experience at one of largest conference of sustainability-minded students and practitioners. Read More..

Lessons learned at Sustainable Global Enterprise Club 101 regarding sustainability consulting, sustainability marketing and CSR.

Kickoff meeting of SGE club’s Social Enterprise and Microfinance (SEAM) affinity group with Erik Simanis, Managing Director of Market Creation Strategies. Read More..

During a recent tour of Cornell’s LEED Platinum Human Ecology Building, members of the Sustainable Global Enterprise (SGE) Club and Associate Real Estate Council explored the cutting edge of sustainable design and construction.

HumEnergy is a social enterprise that aims to provide a source of income and electricity in off-grid villages in India by the implementation of human powered electricity generators. The goal of this project was to do preliminary fieldwork and carry out initial pilot tests to gauge the viability of HumEnergy in these areas and see how best to move forward.

Over the summer I worked with the American subsidiary of the world’s largest solar panel manufacturer to develop strategies for downstream project financing.

HumEnergy is a social enterprise that aims to provide a source of income and electricity in off-grid villages in India through human powered electricity generators. The goal of this project was to do preliminary fieldwork and carry out initial pilot tests to gauge the viability of HumEnergy.

Working at IFC as a summer intern solidified my desire to maximize my impact in the world, by working to create opportunities where it’s needed most.

On Sept 28, for the better part of the day, Cornell alumni working across the energy industry gathered at Sage Hall to share their expertise with MBA, engineering, regional planning, and undergraduate students.  Read More..

Visitor experience is taken very seriously at the National Park Service. Consequently, my role over the summer was to address congestion issues through the management of commercial transportation to an iconic site: Muir Woods National Monument. Read More..

Making a career switch into a new industry and new function at the same time is not easy.  However, gaining hands-on work experience through a summer internship has been an invaluable stepping stone to making it happen.

My off the beaten path adventure involved 4 weeks off the coast of South America, and 8 weeks in South East Asia—two very different regions of the world working on two very different projects.  This is about the second half of my summer working in Cambodia.

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My off the beaten path adventure involved 4 weeks off the coast of South America, and 8 weeks in South East Asia—two very different regions of the world working on two very different projects. Read More..

The SGE Immersion project gave Stephanie the rare opportunity to work on a real business venture with a client.  She leveraged this experience in her summer internship.

As an Endeavor eMBA Summer Associate, Uday worked with a leading Brazilian pre-media and marketing services client to draft a 5 year growth strategy. Read More..

Working for Accenture as a summer intern is not all that dissimilar from working on the SGE immersion project. Read More..

Jennifer Le spent her summer with The Carlyle Group to develop a customized strategy to incorporate energy efficiency into Carlyle’s U.S. Real Estate investment funds. Read More..

GE develops products to increase revenue streams from its existing install base in an attempt to offset expected revenue shortfalls as the US’ main Wind energy federal subsidy, the Production Tax Credit (PTC), sunsets at the end of 2013.

During a ten-week internship working with an international non-governmental organization (NGO) in the Republic of Tajikistan, in addition to eating an exorbitant amount of plov, I received a real life lesson in cross-cultural management; I learned how business models are created at the base of the economic pyramid; and I realized how vital monitoring and evaluation is in the non-profit sector. Read More..

An internship as a Marketing Strategy Intern at Weaver Wind Energy has expanded my understanding of the renewable energy industry and of sustainability marketing while giving me a greater appreciation of the natural resources that surround us. Read More..

My summer was spent building and pitching new technology for IBM with a team of engineers as part of the IBM Extreme Blue internship program.

Working as an EDF Climate Corps fellow at a North Carolina real estate company deepened my understanding of energy efficiency, sustainable design, and what it takes to make a meaningful difference in business.

Taking on two summer internship projects with Vermont food companies has been a challenge—different businesses, different management styles, different coworkers—but when I look back on everything I’ve learned, I can’t imagine having it any other way. Read More..

Boston-based clean energy firm EnerNOC wants to know more about their competitors and how they can most effectively compete in a crowded market for building energy efficiency software. Read More..

Exploring Sodexo’s approach to making sustainability a core business strategy.  Read More..

Most companies trying to do business with the 4 billion people who make up the world's poor follow a formula long touted by bottom-of-the-pyramid experts, however this model has a significant fatal flaw. 
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Despite the potential of impact investing to bring about real social and environmental change, there are still many unanswered questions about the sector.

Tathiana Reis, MBA '12 writes about a vist to the slums of Mumbai to study the target market for a new business aimed at pregnant women. Read More..

High margins and very strong profitability are necessities for businesses serving D and E consumers. Read More..

Milstein speaks to middle managers about innovation and sustainability while in Japan.  Read More..

The IFC faces significant barriers when promoting climate change projects in developing countries.

Prestigious fellowship selects fewer than 1 percent of its 1,000 applicants from 100 countries to work on tackling global poverty Read More..

SGE immersion team works with international cosmetics company to develop a sustainability-marketing plan to drive sales in China. Read More..

Traveling to Ghana during the spring break to conduct research for the Sustainable Global Enterprise Immersion project challenged my long-held assumptions on sustainability. Read More..

The SGE Club sets its 2012 priorities: strengthening Johnson’s professional network, preparing for a new Dean, and bringing together sustainably minded Cornellians. Read More..

SGE immersion team works with small ecologically focused real estate company to develop island in Belize in an environmentally sustainable manner. Read More..

Student team makes recommendations to Detroit Edison (the local utility operator in Detroit) about the most cost effective way to build renewable energy generation capacity. Read More..

Diverse cohort interests extend across finance + sustainability landscape

With the help of BR Microcaptial (BRM), Acorn Design reinvents its business model for the 21^st century. Read More..

Although I’ve traveled extensively and have been to major Asian cities before, I was not prepared for Mumbai’s intensity.  That's where I spent my winter break working with Aavishkaar, a micro-venture capital fund, and its portfolio company, Servals Automation. Read More..

Although I knew there were plenty of students interested in sustainability at Johnson, I didn’t expect to have many networking or educational opportunities directly related to agriculture while in business school. Read More..

Johnson MBA students traveled to GE headquarters in Schenectady, NY in December for a series of talks about the current and future renewable industry environment as well as to learn about GE's Renewable Energy Leadership Program (RELP). Read More..

Prior to business school, I set out to learn what sustainable agriculture means.  I had heard a lot of buzz words and farmers talking about their growing practices, but I wanted to see for myself. Read More..

If water is the oil of the 21^st century, then MBA students should take note of water issues and how they affect the global economy.

Sustainable Global Enterprise (SGE) club members attended a private tour of the Kitchen Theatre Company (KTC) in downtown Ithaca, a recently renovated building that is pursuing LEED certification through the United States Green Building Council (USGBC). Read More..

Portland, Oregon may be 2,800 miles away from Ithaca, New York, but eight students and one Career Management Center (CMC) representative made the trek to attend the annual Net Impact Conference this year in late October. Read More..

In my exploration into sustainable enterprise, I’ve come to realize that the concept of “sustainable operations” is one of the major drivers for this shift towards a more sustainable economy. Read More..

Several SGE club members, including myself, left town several weeks ago for the bright lights of New York City to attend the Columbia Social Enterprise Conference, “Social Innovation in a Networked World.” Read More..

Though one may question how sustainability fits into my ongoing quest for innovation and technology management, the time spent in the Sustainable Global Enterprise Immersion has been one of my defining moments at Johnson. Read More..

Fortunately for me, Johnson and the Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise support MBA students who want to explore alternative career paths.

I confess that I have a contagious travel bug. I may also have a case of digital media addiction. What better way to spend my summer than to be an online marketing intern at a leading global hospitality company? Read More..

Many have been fascinated by my transition from the SGE immersion to a high-tech company, a pairing that is sometimes surprising. Read More..

My summer internship as a marketing and sustainability intern at S. C. Johnson focused on three challenging projects requiring a strong ability in both marketing and sustainability skills. 

This challenge was the most rewarding career experience I’ve had to date. The path there was winding and Johnson made it possible. Read More..

After learning about the environmental problems in the mining industry during the SGE immersion, I was very interested to uncover the environmental solutions that Emerson Electric could provide to miners. Read More..

The Johnson Core and the SGE Immersion provide a strong foundation for work in renewable energy and sustainable startups.

Working for the National Park Service was challenging and rewarding in ways I never imagined possible in a government agency. Read More..

As a student interested in pursuing a post-MBA career “greening” the health care industry, I am lucky to be spending my summer as an Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) Climate Corps Fellow at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts. Read More..

Using what I learned in the SGE immersion to think creatively, thoroughly, and thoughtfully, to develop a national clean cookstove market strategy for Indonesia and East Timor. Read More..

Energy significantly impacted and often undermined the social, economic, and environmental conditions in northern Iraq during my time there and influenced my decision to seek a career in renewable energy. Read More..

Getting hands-on experience at Elevar Equity to determine if a career in impact investing is the right choice.   Read More..

Summer internship with Vestergaard Frandsen, a global company that specializes in disease control products for aid and development. Read More..

Working as a summer intern of Strategy and Insight for Sustainability at Landor, a global brand/design consulting firm. Read More..

Energy innovations surrounding green data centers which support cloud computing will have a significant impact in the impending future in creating a more sustainable environment. Read More..

Hostos Monegro, MBA '12, offers this travel journal from the 2011 MBA study trip to Japan and Korea, May 15, 2011, to May 28, 2011. Read More..

SGE students welcome the incoming class of 2013 at Destination Johnson. Read More..

Conducting on-the-ground research for an SGE immersion sponsor - an agricultural machinery company looking to better understand the growing market for their products in India. Read More..

While visiting a winery, one of the many things Elicia Carmichael learned about sustainable agiculture was just how much fuzzy botrytis fungi is needed to add flavor and depth to wine. Read More..

Adam Kahn writes about the visit by Professor Anil Netravali from Cornell’s College of Human Ecology on Tuesday, March 1, 2011. Read More..

The Green Building & Development Affinity Group tours Weill Hall, a LEED Gold certified building on the Cornell University campus. Read More..

Johnson students are collaborating with a team of Cornell engineers to apply their business skills to a clean water project called AguaClara. Read More..

The Sustainable Consulting Affinty Group organized a Knowledge Exchange, which allowed members to share their passion and expertise. Read More..

The 2011 Hult Global Case Challenge was a call to action for the world’s brightest business school minds to tackle the world’s most pressing issues. Read More..

JEC was designed to bring alumni working in the energy industry back to campus and provide a platform for them to share thoughts and experiences about their careers in the energy industry. Read More..