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Each of our Erb Institute toolboxes is designed to help you better implement decision-making strategies for sustainability at your company. These toolboxes cover a wide variety of topics and are routinely updated to keep up with changing innovations and trends.
- Topics on: Statistics, Strategy
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Outside the classroom, business is happening in a complicated world. Social and environmental issues are bombarding businesses with new risks, costs, and challenges—as well as new investment and innovation opportunities. You need to get up to speed.
MBA EDGE briefings give you a primer on the most important issues of our day and the ways they intersect with business risks and opportunities.
Free to download and share, content-rich, and—most importantly—written with your future in mind.
- Topics on: Investing
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The MIT Climate Portal provides expert insights on climate change, offering resources such as explainers, podcasts, and educational materials. It covers the science behind climate change, its risks, and potential solutions, highlighting MIT’s efforts to address these global challenges.
- Topics on: Technology
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Fishbanks is a multiplayer web-based simulation in which participants play the role of fishers and seek to maximize their net worth as they compete against other players and deal with variations in fish stocks and their catch. Participants buy, sell, and build ships; decide where to fish; and negotiate with one another. Policy options available to instructors include auctions of new boats, permits, and quotas.
- Topics on: Planning
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En-ROADS is an online simulator that provides policymakers, educators, businesses, the media, and the public with the ability to test and explore cross-sector climate solutions.
- Topics on: Planning
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C-ROADS is a free, award-winning computer simulator that helps people understand the long-term climate impacts of national and regional greenhouse gas emissions reductions at the global level.
- Topics on: Planning
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Latent Lab is a project by Kevin Dunnell, Trudy Painter, and Andrew Stoddard from the Viral Communications Group at the MIT Media Lab advised by Andy Lippman.
For more information, see the official project page: https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/latent-lab/overview/
- Topics on: Planning
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This platform promotes the integration of sustainability-related topics, ways of thinking, and learning methods into teaching for students to be equipped so they can tackle 21st-century challenges.
Sustainability in academia is an initiative from the collaboration between WWF Switzerland, the University of St Gallen, and the Network for Business Sustainability. The initial phase of this project was kindly supported by SDSN Switzerland.
- Topics on: Planning
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Winner of the 2022 Gold Medal at the International Serious Play Awards. Now available in English or Spanish.
Learners play the role of the General Manager of a 500-room, 4-star city-center hotel with the goal of reaching net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. As a first major step, the hotel needs to reduce its emissions by 50% over the next 7 years and at the same time optimize its financial performance. Each year, learners must prioritize and select up to 3 initiatives from a wide-ranging and evolving list that impact the hotel’s emissions and business performance. Initiatives are divided into energy, purchasing, and management categories. Learners must also make management decisions about expenditure on staff environmental awareness training and guest communication. Feedback is provided to learners in terms of the hotel’s emissions and their underlying drivers (including energy and water consumption, waste generation, food consumption and purchased products), as well as the hotel’s financial performance after each round of decisions. Altogether, the hotel’s emissions are reduced through a combination of technical solutions and behavioral changes by staff, customers and suppliers. Business performance is impacted through investments in initiatives, changes in operational costs, and potential improvements in revenue per available room (RevPAR). To take into account recent technological developments or to tailor the simulation to specific local conditions, instructors are able to tailor key settings of the simulation, including the location of the hotel (London, Mumbai, New York, Rio de Janeiro, Singapore) and other model parameters (including the efficiency of solar panels, emissions associated with electricity consumption, and embodied carbon of purchased products).
This product was designed and developed to comply with WCAG 2.1 AA standards.
- Topics on: Finance
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Essential resources that will help you understand the key facts about human-caused climate change.
- Topics on: Planning
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Climate Rising is podcast about the impact of climate change on business.
- Topics on: Planning
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TILclimate (Today I Learned: Climate) is an award-winning MIT podcast that breaks down the science, technologies, and policies behind climate change, how it’s impacting us, and what we can do about it. Each quick episode gives you the what, why, and how on climate change — from real scientists and experts — to help us make informed decisions for our future.
Produced by the MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative.
- Topics on: Planning
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This course presents the economics of the world energy challenge { how to provide access to reliable and affordable energy while addressing adverse health, environmental, and climate impacts. Class lectures and discussions will examine the frictions among social, policy, and private objectives in energy and environmental markets. In this course, we will tackle questions such as the following: What role can businesses play in addressing climate change?
What can you do? Should governments subsidize renewable energy? If so, how should the subsidies be structured? What are the economic and policy barrier to decreasing carbon emissions and other air pollution from the transportation system, and how can they be overcome?
What are the short- and long-run impacts of Covid-19 on energy markets and the environment? How are electricity markets regulated and organized, and how do the regulatory institutions impact the transition to low-carbon electricity? Tech giants have committed nearly one billion dollars toward \permanent” carbon removal. How could we effectively spend this money?
- Topics on: Energy, Technology
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This course aims to provide students with a fundamental grasp of key financial market issues concerning ESG, responsible business, and climate change. The course employs a blend of lectures, group presentations, and case studies. The curriculum is divided into two parts: Part 1 focuses on ESG, while Part 2 delves into climate change.
In Part 1, students will gain an overview of ESG, including its theories, various types of ESG risks, proposed causes and consequences of ESG/CSR, and its impact on performance. Part 2 concentrates on climate change matters, encompassing the pricing of climate change risks, the significance of carbon disclosures, and sustainable financing mechanisms like green bonds.
- Topics on: Finance, Investing
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This course provides an introduction to social impact investing – an investment approach intentionally seeking to create both financial return and positive social impact that is actively measured.
We begin with the core belief that investment is the engine of growth, and hence all investing can be viewed as inherently impactful. Social impact investing seeks to create positive social or environmental value in addition to a financial return. It is an approach, not an asset class.
- Topics on: Finance, Justice, Strategy
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Each of our Erb Institute toolboxes is designed to help you better implement decision-making strategies for sustainability at your company. These toolboxes cover a wide variety of topics and are routinely updated to keep up with changing innovations and trends.
- Topics on: Analytics, Technology
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Each of our Erb Institute toolboxes is designed to help you better implement decision-making strategies for sustainability at your company. These toolboxes cover a wide variety of topics and are routinely updated to keep up with changing innovations and trends.
- Topics on: Investing, Technology
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Each of our Erb Institute toolboxes is designed to help you better implement decision-making strategies for sustainability at your company. These toolboxes cover a wide variety of topics and are routinely updated to keep up with changing innovations and trends.
- Topics on: Justice
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Each of our Erb Institute toolboxes is designed to help you better implement decision-making strategies for sustainability at your company. These toolboxes cover a wide variety of topics and are routinely updated to keep up with changing innovations and trends.
- Topics on: Technology
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Each of our Erb Institute toolboxes is designed to help you better implement decision-making strategies for sustainability at your company. These toolboxes cover a wide variety of topics and are routinely updated to keep up with changing innovations and trends.
Michigan Ross offers these toolboxes for free on their website as a way to democratize sustainability globally. Click on the toolboxes below to learn more!
- Topics on: Investing, Technology