Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 55.41
Liaison Deborah Steinberg
Submission Date Feb. 18, 2013
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STARS v1.2

Carnegie Mellon University
ER-T2-5: Sustainable Enterprise

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.25 / 0.25 Erika Ninos
Environmental Program Coordinator
Steinbrenner Institute
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Does the institution have a student-run enterprise, such as a cafe, through which students gain sustainable business skills?:
Yes

A brief description of the enterprise:

"Net Impact is a network of emerging business leaders committed to using the power of business to create a better world.”

The Net Impact chapter at the Tepper School of Business has a mission to promote the education and understanding of business ethics and corporate sustainability and responsibility among MBA students and other interested graduate students at Carnegie Mellon University. Net Impact views their organizational mission in terms of the triple bottom line – enhancing people, profit, and environment.

One of Net Impact's ongoing projects, is to sponsor Pro Bono consulting in partnership with the Consulting Club at Carnegie Mellon.Teams of students are working with 10 local organizations in the Pittsburgh area to address specific issues. Projects include business & strategic planning, procurement & operations analysis and marketing planning. Students are working with nonprofit organizations ranging from charter schools to low income senior citizen apartments to social enterprises.


The website URL where information about the sustainable enterprise is available:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

Additional information about other sustainable enterprise programs can be found here:

The Institute for Social Innovation website: http://heinz.cmu.edu/institute-for-social-innovation/index.aspx

Project Olympus website: http://www.olympus.cs.cmu.edu/


Additional information about other sustainable enterprise programs can be found here:

The Institute for Social Innovation website: http://heinz.cmu.edu/institute-for-social-innovation/index.aspx

Project Olympus website: http://www.olympus.cs.cmu.edu/

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