Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise

Learn more about our research, faculty and staff, and the exciting experiential learning opportunities we provide to students.

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Johnson School

Embracing the “Everyone is a Changemaker” Movement

Johnson’s Social Impact Internship Fund enabled Tony Tsao, MBA ’22, to help nonprofit Ashoka further develop its social entrepreneurship network.

Natalie interning for Ecolab from home. In front of her is a table, laptop, notebook, and an Ecolab water bottle.
Johnson School

My sustainability internship quest: Marketing with Ecolab

Natalie Gonzalez, MBA ‘22 writes about her commitment to and her thought process behind finding a meaningful sustainability summer internship.

Mama Said Hand Pies owners Hiroko Takashima and Gabe Flores sitting at a table with a plate of hand pies in front of them and smiling
Johnson School

Mama Said Hand Pies empowers creative passion by adopting a business mindset

Big Red Microenterprise coaches Benjamin Goulet and Devashish Sharma helped Mama Said Hand Pies transition from a farmer’s market stall to a shopfront.

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Johnson School

Dreams and aspirations of becoming a global sustainability advisor

Johnson’s Social Impact Internship Fund enabled Duncan Lee, MBA ’22, to showcase his business and sustainability capability to AccountAbility.

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My Fellow Americans, Let’s Be Better Tourists

“The kind of company you want to pick can show you how they’re measuring the impact of their travel,” Megan Epler Wood, the managing director of the Sustainable Tourism Asset Management Program, tells the New York Times.

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Johnson School

Glamping: The Present (and Future) of Alternative Lodging

How do you help more people experience the magic of camping? “Glamping,” or glamorous camping, is taking the alternative lodging industry by storm.

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Johnson School

Staying true to my passion for sustainability and food systems

Alanna Miyajima, MBA ’21, writes about how her experience at Johnson helped her pivot into a career helping to make food systems more sustainable.

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Johnson School

EpiWell: Pushing the boundaries in diabetes management

As part of the BR Microenterprise program, MBA candidates Tyler Ashcraft and Faraan Khan worked with EpiWell, a local diabetes management company.

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Amid competing priorities, business can be a force for good

SC Johnson Chairman and CEO Fisk Johnson draws on his storied company’s values to navigate between business pragmatism and doing good.