The Center

As we enter the new millennium, we are realizing that a healthy enterprise-based economy is dependent on a healthy ecology. However effective we may be at creating jobs and generating revenue, we cannot claim a healthy, viable economy unless the environment in which jobs and revenues flow is also ecologically sustainable and socially equitable. Securing a desirable present and future for all of us, our cities, our centers of enterprise, will need platforms of excellence that effectively merge the diverse elements necessary to learn about, develop, test and help implement new enterprise models that are designed to protect, complement and restore the natural capital that is essential for sustainability.

The Stuart Graduate School of Business at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago is strategically positioned to be the platform for a center dedicated to the sustainability of Chicago and Illinois at the enterprise level. Within Stuart as its core, The Center for Sustainable Enterprise can bring the many disciplines resident at the Illinois Institute of Technology together in a collaborative relationship with business corporations, other academic institutions, government agencies and members of the NGO community to identify, develop, communicate, and help implement practical and equitable business strategies that advance the ecological sustainability of the Greater Chicago Area, while fostering our current and future economic viability.

Seminars

Presentation by Ray C. Anderson, Chairman & CEO, Interface, Inc.