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.
The Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise is excited to announce our new Sustainability Mentors program! Mentors will meet one-on-one with students virtually or in-person to share their sustainability expertise, advise on careers in sustainability, and discuss students’ goals and interests. This is a one-year commitment and mentors should plan to commit at least 8 hours to the program each semester.
If you are interested in becoming a member of our inaugural cohort of Sustainability Mentors, please submit the form below.
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!
Sustainability Fellows Applications Due by November 2 @11:59 pm. Open to 1st-year MBA students. Application Link: https://johnson.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6WLgcFSqEGfHonY Sustainability Fellows: https://business.cornell.edu/centers/sge/students/fellows-program/...
Sustainability Fellows Applications Due by November 2 @11:59 pm. Open to 1st-year MBA students. Application Link: https://johnson.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6WLgcFSqEGfHonY Sustainability Fellows: https://business.cornell.edu/centers/sge/students/fellows-program/...
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.
