From MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU Mon Nov 3 17:10:09 2008 From: MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU (MIT.WORLD) Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 17:10:09 -0500 Subject: [Mitworld] New: The Campaign and the Media, Sloan panel on Sustainability and Supply Chains Message-ID: <1131710.AJDVAWDA@MIT.EDU> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MIT World - Newsletter - Volume 8 | Number 10 | November 4, 2008 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- - - - View the latest additions to MIT World: - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [A REPORT CARD ON MEDIA COVERAGE OF THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION] There's anxiety, outrage, and some wistfulness in this panel devoted to weighing the strengths and weaknesses of political reporting during the 2008 campaign season, with some mourning the lackof courageous journalism. MODERATOR: Ellen Hume Research Director MIT Center for Future Civic Media PANELISTS: Tom Rosenstiel Director, Project for Excellence in Journalism John Carroll Assistant Professor of Communication, Boston University Ellen Goodman Columnist, The Boston Globe PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "Technology doesn't change human nature; it just services it....The same technology that opens this up to letting anyone be a journalist also opens up to campaigns and people who want to manipulate. The press's role is to be a filter and say, that's a lie, that's not true, and that role has been weakened." -- Tom Rosenstiel EVENT HOST: MIT Communications Forum ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [OPPORTUNITIES IN BUILDING MORE SUSTAINABLE SUPPLY CHAINS] When a global corporation implements sustainability standards, it pays to work closely with supply chains, as these panelists attest. SPEAKER: Richard M. Locke PhD '89 Alvin J. Siteman Professor of Entrepreneurship and Political Science, MIT Sloan School of Management SPEAKER: Fernando Paiz SF '89 Vice President, Wal-Mart Central America SPEAKER: Bonnie Nixon-Gardiner Director, Hewlett Packard Ethical Sourcing PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "We're not the weird esoteric companies, we're mainstream companies doing important work on the issue of sustainability, and doing better financially." -- Richard Locke EVENT HOST: MIT Sloan School of Management ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ authors at MIT The MIT Libraries and the MIT Press Bookstore present Frank Wilczek Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics, MIT 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics The Lightness of Being: Mass, Ether, and the Unification of Forces: Anticipating a New Golden Age ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SPONSORS Office of the President Office of the Provost Office of the Vice President for Research School of Architecture and Planning School of Engineering School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences MIT Sloan School of Management School of Science MIT Alumni Association Industrial Liaison Program Office of the Vice President and Secretary of the Corporation PARTNERS Academic Media Production Services (AMPS), MIT Libraries Departmental Consulting and Application Development (DCAD), MIT Information Services and Technology Akamai Technologies RiverRun Media Send comments to: Publisher MIT World Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Massachusetts Avenue 35-336 Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 MIT World: http://mitworld.mit.edu/ --- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Champy '63, SM '65 Chairman of Consulting Perot Systems Corporation Life Member, MIT Corporation PANELISTS: Richard Samuels PhD '80 Director, Center for International Studies Subra Suresh ScD '81 Dean, MIT School of Engineering Ford Professor of Engineering Professor of Biological Engineering Marc A. Kastner Dean, MIT School of Science Donner Professor of Science, MIT Deborah Fitzgerald Kenan Sahin Dean, MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences David Schmittlein John C Head III, Dean, MIT Sloan School of Management Adele Naude Santos Dean, MIT School of Architecture and Planning PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "We should reach out and touch the world and make ourselves better and smarter. We have a lot to learn and teach about the diversity of a globalizing planet...We want (our students) to step boldly and intelligently into the global market of ideas and commerce." -- Richard Samuels EVENT HOST: The Human Factor ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [GETTING UNSTUCK: HOW TO PROMOTE MORE SUSTAINABLE PRACTICES IN OUR ORGANIZATIONS] SPEAKER: Rebecca Henderson '81 Eastman Kodak LFM Professor, MIT Sloan School PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "Here's the good news: focusing on sustainability gives us the emotional power and moral juice to do these things. In organizations really trying to tackle sustainability, there is a level of excitement and energy that is quite palpable." -- Rebecca Henderson EVENT HOST: MIT Sloan School of Management ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The MIT Energy Initiative George Shultz, PhD '49 Former Secretary of State Distinguished Fellow Hoover Institution, Stanford University Energy: The Past Must Not Be Prologue ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [SPONSORED LINK] SUSTAINABILITY IN YOUR IN-BOX. Get the latest from MIT Sloan Management Review on business and sustainability. Like Rebecca Henderson's exciting ideas on business and sustainability? Subscribe to the MIT Sloan Management Review sustainability e-bulletin. 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There's a revolution afoot to promote R&D to get designers to work on technologies for the other 90%, preferably for those living on $1 or $2 a day." -- Amy Smith EVENT HOST: The Human Factor ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [OPPORTUNITIES IN INFRASTRUCTURE AND BUILT ENVIRONMENT] SPEAKER: Sarah Slaughter, 82, SM'87, PhD 91 Senior Lecturer, MIT Sloan School of Management SPEAKER: Judith Layzer, PhD '99 Linde Career Development Associate Professor of Environmental Policy, MIT SPEAKER: Milton Bevington Domain Director, Building Retrofit Program, Clinton Climate Initiative, Clinton Foundation SPEAKER: Bill Sisson Director of Sustainability, United Technologies Corporation Co-Chair, World Business Council for Sustainable Development Buildings Project PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "We need to stop talking about changing light bulbs and start thinking about the building as a whole, the interdependence of lighting on other systems to make the dramatic changes that are necessary." -- Bill Sisson EVENT HOST: MIT Sloan School of Management ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ THE NEW MIT WORLD New design, new features, all Flash videos ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SPONSORS Office of the President Office of the Provost Office of the Vice President for Research School of Architecture and Planning School of Engineering School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences MIT Sloan School of Management School of Science MIT Alumni Association Industrial Liaison Program Office of the Vice President and Secretary of the Corporation PARTNERS Academic Media Production Services (AMPS), MIT Libraries Departmental Consulting and Application Development (DCAD), MIT Information Services and Technology Akamai Technologies RiverRun Media Send comments to: Publisher MIT World Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Massachusetts Avenue 35-336 Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 MIT World: http://mitworld.mit.edu/ --- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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