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The Institute for Sustainable Enterprise

The Institute for Sustainable Enterprise. EDUCATION. SERVICE. INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE ENTERPRISE Bringing people together to learn how to live and manage sustainably. Alcoa Howmet, Automatic Switch, Becton Dickinson, Heller Communications Design, Interface, JCP&L.

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The Institute for Sustainable Enterprise

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  1. The Institute for Sustainable Enterprise EDUCATION SERVICE INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE ENTERPRISE Bringing people together to learn how to live and manage sustainably Alcoa Howmet, Automatic Switch, Becton Dickinson, Heller Communications Design, Interface, JCP&L Johnson & Johnson, Morristown Partnership, NJHEPS, Novartis, Philips, Ricoh, Sanofi-Aventis, Wakefern Foods APPLIED RESEARCH Intent: Earn worldwide status as top-20 sustainability institute

  2. Priority Initiatives • Generating sustainability knowledge • Catalyzing sustainability education • Developing sustainability leaders • Enabling local sustainable development • Nurturing sustainable business start ups

  3. Generating Knowledge & Publications • Qualities of highly sustainable firms (HRPJ) • Worldwide sustainability survey (w/ AMA) • Sustainable Enterprise Fieldbook (Greenleaf) • High-engagement workplace impacts (HCM -“Effects of High Involvement Work Systems on Employee Satisfaction…”, “Links among High Performance Work Environment, Service Quality and Customer Satisfaction…”, JCM) • Grant-funded program evaluation –aging in place & disabled telecommuting(RWJ, Kessler) • Conference papers & case studies

  4. Catalyzing Sustainability Education • FDU curriculum innovation • Sustainability modules in UG to Executive courses • International immersion experiences • Service learning courses • K-16 curriculum innovation (NJ Learns project, Cloud Institute for Sustainability Education) • Class instruction modules • Teacher training

  5. Developing Sustainability Leaders Developing executives to be catalysts & leaders for sustainability in their own organizations • Designed/delivering series of AMA Green Leadershipworkshops • Designing/Marketing Post Graduate Programin Managing for Sustainability

  6. Enabling local Sustainable Development • FDU sustainable-campus outreach • Encourage/coordinate student-faculty-administration collaborative initiatives –Green Building, Recyclemania, Climate Challenge, Green Day, Project Move Out, energy-waste reduction • Municipal/town sustainability initiatives • Sustainable Morristown project (Morristown Partnership, Dodge Foundation) • Maplewood? Summit?

  7. Nurturing Sustainable Business Start Ups • ISE Sustainable Business Incubator • Providing management and fundraising expertise to new sustainability-enhancing ventures and social entrepreneurs • Clean technology startups • Not-for-profits • Policy engagement, fundraising, and collaboration with other entities

  8. Organizational Issues • Expanding membership • Increasing fundraising success • Coping with tension between entrepreneurial spirit and formalization pressures • Further strengthening internal FDU support • Completing Business Plan • Constituting/Convening Board of Directors

  9. Conversation • Given today’s sustainability climate and your reading of it: • What excites you? • What is your advice to ISE? • How can we best engage you?

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