Center renamed to honor sustainability pioneer... and other updates!

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March 2015 Volume 1 │ Issue 1

CENTER NEWS

Center Renamed in Honor of Corporate Sustainability Pioneer, Ray C. Anderson

We could not be more excited to share the news about the continued support from the Ray C. Anderson Foundation and the renaming of our center to honor Ray’s legacy. Since our founding two years ago, we have catalyzed new research and developed coursework in business sustainability. The Foundation's extended commitment will help the Center scale and expand our activities in support of our mission: using the power of business, technology, and innovation to create a sustainable future.

Read full announcement here.

The Center partnered with Sustainable Brands to develop an article series entitled:

Academic Engagement: How Business and Business Schools partner to Drive Sustainable Innovation

The Ray C. Anderson Center for Sustainable Business is one of a growing number of centers and institutes within major business schools that are dedicated to advancing thought leadership, education, and practice at the intersection of business and sustainability.

In addition to educating students, our Center, and others like it, create connections between academia and industry, government, NGOs, and other stakeholders. Centers provide businesses with a network of faculty, students, other industry leaders, and more. Schools benefit from access to real-world challenges for student projects and research opportunities, executives offering support as guest speakers or mentors, and much more. This series highlights some of the successes and the many opportunities in creating a sustainable future.

Read our featured articles here:

Why Business Culture Should Be the Ultimate Aim of Sustainability Leaders

Catalyzing Change: Georgia Tech Establishes Hub for Sustainable Business Collaboration

Georgia Tech Commits to Ambitious Sustainable Community Engagement Initiative

Scheller Announces Strategic Sustainability MBA Concentration

Scheller recently formalized four new interdisciplinary MBA Concentrations including one in Strategic Sustainability. The Center developed this concentration to support students in gaining a deeper understanding of business-relevant trends and innovation opportunities related to resource scarcity, environmental concerns, societal needs, emerging technologies, and policy developments.

For more information about the MBA Strategic Sustainability Concentration and other ways we are empowering students, visit our website.

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Scheller Ranked 8th in Corporate Knights’ Global 100 Sustainable MBA Programs

The Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business ranked 8th in Corporate Knights magazine’s Global 100 Sustainable MBA rankings reflecting our success at integrating sustainability into the student experience.

For this year’s ranking, Corporate Knights examined the top 100 programs listed in the Financial Times’ 2013 Global MBA ranking, determining which programs best prioritized sustainability through curriculum choices, dedicated institutes and centers, and relevant faculty research.

See full rankings here.

Faculty Profile:
Dr. Manpreet Hora

"Sustainability is far more than 'tree hugging', and with the right data we'll be able to show that rather than be set apart in a silo, sustainability should permeate the company."

An associate professor of operations management, Hora's research examines managerial decision-making in mitigating losses and enhancing firm performance in supply chain management. Hora has developed and taught Service Operations and Empirical Methods and has published several teaching cases. His teaching awards include the CETL/BP Junior Faculty Teaching Excellence Award, the Brady Family Award for Faculty Teaching Excellence and most recently the Class of 1940 W. Roane Beard Teaching Award.

View full profile here.

Sustainability @Tech

Serve • Learn • Sustain is an Institutional effort to equip Georgia Tech students to learn and serve around the theme “creating sustainable communities” through engagement with content and context. The initiative was developed as Tech's Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP), as a key component to its reaffirmation of accreditation.

The Ray C. Anderson Center for Sustainable Business launched in 2013 thanks to the generosity of the Ray C. Anderson Foundation and the Kendeda Fund. The Center was created as a catalyst, connector, and enabler, bringing together students, research faculty, companies, entrepreneurs, and other organizations in environments where business-driven solutions can take shape and thrive.

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