Applied Research

The Center is a global leader in pioneering new approaches to business model creation, generating applied research geared toward the development of crucial new managerial skills and capabilities.

The Center’s programs and activities serve a variety of partners: companies, NGOs, multilateral organizations, government entities, entrepreneurs, students, and alumni. All are aimed at helping these partners achieve their goals — whether they are an entrepreneur seeking to create a new business for underserved markets; a business leader looking to commercialize a green technology; a practitioner interested in enhancing his network and knowledge base; an alumni looking to connect with the university; a current or prospective student seeking to enhance their education; or an academic involved in related research.

Sustainable Tourism Asset Management Program (STAMP)

STAMP is developing a global knowledge base, online professional and student training, as well as the research and technichal support for destinations to more effectively manage tourism assets in the face of endemic poverty, ecosystem degradation, climate change, and public health crises.

Built to Hold Venture Design Program

B2H Program, a partnership between Cornell’s Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise and the venture design firm Half-Solved, was created to advance and disseminate a venture design methodology for those building ventures for their actual profits, not their paper profits.

Publications & Research with Impact

The Center’s faculty and researchers look to publish their findings in peer-reviewed journals, books, and practitioner-oriented articles.

Funded Research

Using applied research methodologies, we engage in research that promotes innovation, entrepreneurship, and new market creation strategies for both developed and developing economies.