Businesses have a vital role to play in solving social and environmental issues through innovation, market development, and entrepreneurship.
With more than 20 years’ experience, the Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise works with faculty associated with the Business of Sustainability Theme who are at the forefront of research, teaching, and engagement related to helping businesses address these problems. We provide students distinctive experiential learning opportunities and collaborate with organizations to help to tackle the grand challenges of our time, such as climate change, ecosystem degradation, and poverty.
Cornell Energy Connection Registration is now open!
Cornell Energy Connection 2025
Powering Through Uncertainty: Navigating The Future of Energy
Join us on November 21st in-person in NYC for the 2025 Cornell Energy Connection Conference
Panel and speaker topics will cover aspects of the energy transition including innovation and technology, financing, policy, and more. Join us for networking with students, academics, and professionals interested in the industry.
Carina D’Souza, MBA ’26 spends her summer internship working with AirVitalize Innovations, a clean-tech startup on a mission to make clean air accessible to all.
Biodiversity startups raise less capital than other startups but attract a broader coalition of investors, according to new research that used machine learning.
Cornell SC Johnson College of Business Research Paper, January 2025
Summary
The authors investigate the relationship between childhood mental health conditions and financial outcomes later in life. They find that individuals with childhood mental health conditions are significantly less likely to hold any assets, and they accumulate more debt. Financial literacy, however, mitigates most of these effects.
The Center hosts annual conferences surrounding the energy transition and business impact, hosts roundtables and networking events during NYC Climate week, and more!
The Center provides hands-on learning opportunities for graduate students interested in learning how businesses address environmental and social problems through innovation and enterprise. Click on the map to learn more about the diversity of companies and types of challenges we work on.
My best decision at Johnson was joining SGE. Hands down!
Mikey Arsnow, MBA '19
The SGE program is more than a class, it is a community building exercise. We worked hard but also played hard while learning about win-win solutions for business and the world.
Mercedes Moran Enriquez, MBA ‘20
Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫ’ Land Acknowledgment for the Ithaca Campus
Cornell University is located on the traditional homelands of the Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫ’ (the Cayuga Nation). The Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫ’ are members of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, an alliance of six sovereign Nations with a historic and contemporary presence on this land. The Confederacy precedes the establishment of Cornell University, New York state, and the United States of America. We acknowledge the painful history of Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫ’ dispossession, and honor the ongoing connection of Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫ’ people, past and present, to these lands and waters.
