Sustainable Global Enterprise
Key Features
SGE Boot Camp
The Sustainable Global Enterprise Boot Camp is a key component of the SGE Immersion. It is held each January, 10 days prior to the start of the spring semester. The boot camp is an essential part of the immersion experience and is mandatory because:
Establishes a common base of knowledge for the Immersion cohort which includes both Johnson and non-Johnson students,
Provides students the opportunity to develop a personal development strategy for a more effective career; and
Enables teams to begin scoping projects directly with sponsor organizations.
The Boot Camp is led by Mark B. Milstein
, director of the Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise and lecturer of strategy, innovation, and sustainable global enterprise, and Stuart L. Hart
, the Samuel C. Johnson Chair in Sustainable Global Enterprise.
Topics covered during the boot camp:
The Big Picture: Developing a Sense of the World, Part I and Part II
The Evolution of the Corporation and Global Capitalism
A Sense of History: The Evolution of Business & Sustainability
The Sustainable Enterprise
Project Scoping: Company Meetings
Project Scoping: Scoping Presentations
Sponsored Projects
In the Sustainable Global Enterprise Practicum, students work on sponsored projects that challenge them to solve real problems currently faced by companies in the marketplace. Working in multidisciplinary teams with peers from other Cornell graduate programs, students are expected to:
Provide practical, operational solutions for sponsoring companies
Demonstrate competency in all management areas, including economics, finance, accounting, and operations
Refine management skills by working on projects related to technology commercialization strategies, market analysis and feasibility studies, and entrepreneurial venture plans.
More than 20 international corporations, SMEs, and non-profit organizations have sponsored field projects , since the immersion began in 2006. These have included
- AES
- Cascade Engineering
- Dow
- Dow Corning
- DuPont
- Emerging Markets Group
- Environmental Credit Corporation
- Freeplay Foundation & Freeplay Energy
- GE
- IBM
- Nike
- Plebys
- Principle Energy
- S. C. Johnson & Son, Inc.
- SNV, Netherlands Development Organisation
- Suncor
- Tandus
- Water Health International
- The Water Initiative
