Action Learning Sustainability

Multi-solving for decarbonization and healthier living

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Climate tech company BlocPower specializes in residential building electrification, which improves human health and reduces healthcare costs. But no funding exists to link electrification to preventative healthcare efforts. A team of S-Lab students stepped in to help BlocPower make the link.

Mar 1, 2024
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Press Source: TrialSiteNews

How does news impact biotech & pharma stock prices? An MIT maven & inter...

Researchers from MIT Sloan both clarify and analyze historical impacts of news headlines on biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies.

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Alumni Leadership

Rockefeller Foundation President Wants You to Make Big Bets

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Rajiv Shah, president of The Rockefeller Foundation and former administrator of USAID, believes in leveraging the passion of individuals to affect large-scale change in society.

Jan 23, 2024
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Action Learning Sustainability

Working toward a zero-waste-to-landfill goal

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Takeda is a global biopharmaceutical corporation with an ambitious zero-waste-to-landfill goal. BioLife, a subsidiary of Takeda, sought to develop prioritized recycling strategies in support of Takeda’s sustainability pledge and goals. A team of three Sustainable Business Lab (S-Lab) students tackle...

Jan 22, 2024
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Alumni Health Care

Former Quest Diagnostics CEO on the Power of Small Changes

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Steve Rusckowski, SM ’84, former chairperson, CEO, and president of Quest Diagnostics, believes small changes can have a major impact on company culture.

Jan 9, 2024
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Press Source: Medical Xpress

Food-as-Medicine study finds no improvements in type 2 diabetes patients

An intensive food-as-medicine program showed no improvement in glycemic control in patients with type 2 diabetes and food insecurity: MIT Sloan.

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Press Source: STAT

Does food as medicine help patients with diabetes? Here’s what a new cli...

"Randomized clinical trials are key tools for discerning what works best, for whom and why, information that we should all be hungry for."

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