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Plenary I:
An Alliance to Create an Ecosystem for
Sustainable Mobility – CUICAR and BMW
Clemson University International Center
for Automotive Research (CUICAR) was
created as a public private partnership to
develop innovative mobility solutions – both
from a product and infrastructure
development as well as from a manufacturing
perspective. The Automotive industry
currently is going through a transition phase
where alternative fuel technologies as well
as new energy storage and energy transfer
solutions are deployed in a larger scale.
BMW was instrumental in building up CUICAR –
examples are the joint development of
curricula, the implementation of endowed
chairs as well as the continuous
collaboration in research projects where BMW
engineers and Clemson professors are
involved. BMW operates an IT research center
at CUICAR and its recently expanded
manufacturing facilities are in close
proximity to the campus. Sustainable
mobility is a key driver for a multitude of
initiatives both at CUICAR and BMW where the
collaborative structure can be utilized to
learn from each other.
- Joachim Taiber,
research professor,
College of Engineering and Science, Clemson University
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Luncheon and Plenary II: Page Prize in
Sustainability – Learning from the Winners
The Page Prize is designed to support
efforts to introduce or substantially
upgrade sustainability courses and
associated coursework into the curriculum of
business schools. In this session, Andrew
Spicer, the director of the Page Prize at
the Moore School of Business, will first
give a brief overview of the resources
available on the Page Prize website for
sustainability educators. Resources include
descriptions of undergraduate, MBA and PhD
sustainability courses as well as
discussions of integrated sustainability
programs and retreats. Then two past Page
Prize winners will present their
award-winning curricula: Dr. Glen W. S.
Dowell of the Johnson Graduate School of
Management, Cornell University, and Dr.
Carol Seagle of the Kenan-Flagler Business
School, University of North Carolina-Chapel
Hill.Moderator:
- Andrew Spicer,
associate professor,
Moore School of Business, University of
South Carolina
Panelists:
- Glen W.S. Dowell,
assistant
professor of Management and
Organizations, S. C. Johnson Graduate
School of Management, Cornell University
- S. C. Johnson Graduate School of
Management
- Carol Seagle,
faculty director,
Center for Sustainable Enterprise, Kenan-Flagler
Business School, The University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Plenary III: Educating Leaders for a Sustainable
Future
Management and business education has the
fundamental challenge to prepare students
for the future. The global industrial
expansion process, which brought great benefits, also left us facing a
host of fundamental imbalances: shortages of
water, loss of half the topsoil in the world
during the industrial age, growing levels of
waste and toxicity, embedded poverty and
social and political instability, and the
need to dramatically accelerate a transition
to low carbon energy in order to avoid
potentially catastrophic climate change.
These imbalances cannot be ignored. There
will be no viable businesses that do not
start to think far more broadly about the
larger systems of which they are a part.
This already is the case in some industries,
like global food businesses, and will
increasingly be the case in many others.
The essence of all strategic thinking in
businesses is foresight, and then
transforming emerging problems and
challenges into business opportunities. This
should be the foundation of management
education, in concert with a practical
orientation on how to pursue these
opportunities in terms of new products, new
processes, new collaborative approaches to
overall business value chains, and even
totally new business models. If we consider
business to be one of the most important
institutions in society and critical to the
processes whereby real innovation occurs,
business education has a unique role in
contributing to the solution to the world’s
most difficult problems. To pretend that
such problems are marginal and will only be
the concern of a relative minority of CSR
specialists, is to miss the strategic shift
for business, and business education, in the
21st century.
Senge will be leading the plenary remotely,
via Skype. The session will be live and he
will be available to interact and answer any
questions you may have.
- Peter M. Senge,
senior lecturer,
Organization Studies and Founding Chair,
Society for Organizational Learning, MIT
Sloan School of Management,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Presentation moderated by: Steven C. Currall,
dean, Graduate School of Management,
University of California, Davis
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