The Research Program plays a central role in shaping the curriculum of the Sustainability Management master’s program. By highlighting innovative approaches across sustainability management, finance, technology, policy, and education, our work delivers cutting-edge insights and helps guide the next generation of sustainability leaders on their educational journey.
Our research is organized into five key areas:
Our Books
The book provides a general overview of modern urban systems with a focus on urban policies and projects underway around the world, suggesting further modes of improvement. The book takes an organizational-management and public policy standpoint, looking at existing legislation, programs, and public-private partnerships. Through providing concrete examples from waste management in Beijing to public space in Washington DC, the book offers relevant insights on how urban policies shape everyday lives, directly connecting public policy with sustainable urban living.
The book explores how financial expertise can be used to align monetary returns with long-term sustainability goals. The book outlines three traditional roles of financial sector: allocation of scarce capital to its highest-valued use, the matching of savers to investors, and the generation of the most accurate possible signals of scarcity and abundance. From these building blocks, modes of analysis that allow the financial system's capacity to support sustainability are suggested. These include identification and evaluation of sources of long-term value creation that accounts for natural and human capital, the development of appropriate investment products for responsible investors, and the search for risks and opportunities arising from the potential transgression of planetary boundaries.
The book provides an overview of the opportunities for government to stimulate private and public sector sustainability developments, commenting on sustainability policy development, implementation, strategy, and practice. Through detailed cases, the book explores the elements constituting effective policy and factors that help or hinder implementation and adaptation. Furthermore, government policies that may influence innovation and organizational changes in the private sector as well as behavioral changes at the individual level are outlined from federal, state, and local levels.
Our Panels
The Research Program on Sustainability Policy and Management is committed to making current affairs and academic insights accessible to a broader audience. Each semester, the program convenes leading academics, industry professionals, and thought leaders for timely and impactful panel discussions. These events are designed to spark critical dialogue among our students, our partners, our contacts, and the wider public, fostering a vibrant exchange of ideas at the intersection of policy, research, and real-world application.
