"The students came to us with expertise in a realm that we don’t have a lot of skills in, namely systems thinking. The information flowed in the direction of the company and that was hugely beneficial for us. ..... The work the students did lives on, and will continue to live on, as we continue through this long term solution for recycling cups."

- Sponsor

Program Overview

Leadership Lab (L-Lab) L-Lab tackles the critical issues of global business sustainability. The course combines an overarching way to think about systemic change, an on-site field project experience with leading-edge sustainability initiatives, and personal work in individual leadership capacities. It provides the opportunity to influence complex global sustainability efforts that require both new ways of sensemaking and new ways of collaborating across boundaries. Field projects include major organizations at the forefront of today’s thinking about systemic change and sustainable systems, located locally, nationally, and internationally. Previous years’ classes included projects with such organizations as Nike, Starbucks, BP India, PepsiCo, Oxfam, WWF, and the Cambridge Energy Alliance.