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EU climate change expert speaks to MBA students at Duquesne
On the heels Pittsburgh’s selection to the 100 Resilient Cities, Pittsburgh hosted a planning meeting for the initiative. One of the speakers, Piero Pelizzaro from Italy, was a former colleague of...
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Summer Clients
We are pleased to announce clients and challenges for the MBA Sustainability capstone practicum this summer. In this 8-week consulting engagement, students conduct primary research and work on-site...
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#FlashBackFriday Sustainable Ballers!
Flash Back Friday! Back to the spring semester when a group of students rallied together to find a way to relieve the stresses of life. The solution? Intramural Coed Basketball! With the obvious...
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Congratulations are in Order!
Duquesne’s Graduate Net Impact chapter is excited to announce that we have achieved GOLD chapter status this year! Although the statists aren’t out yet for 2015, less than 17% of the over 300 Net...
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The Corporate Cup
On Saturday July 18, 2015, a group of students were sponsored by their client to participate in the first annual Huntington Bank Corporate Cup to help raise money for Pelotonia Cancer Research. The...
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Check out Rebecca Bykoski Class of ’14
Check out Rebecca Bykoski’s interview with TribLive on the Sustainable Pittsburgh Restaurant program she designed! Rebecca is a 2014 graduate of the Duquesne SMBA program and is a current member on the...
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Duquesne MBAs Intend to Power Pittsburgh like Doc Powered the DeLorean: W2E!
In “Back to the Future II” (1989), Doc raids Marty’s garbage and turns it into fuel for his DeLorean. No longer science fiction, converting waste to energy (W2E) is the absolute cutting edge of...
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IDEO Design Thinking Workshop
It was incredible how much knowledge we gained about breakthrough innovation! Our MBA Sustainability Cohort participated and competed a training session on Design Thinking from IDEO. For those of you...
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MBA Sustainability Ranked Among Global Top 10 for 2015!
The recently released “Better World MBA 2015 Ranking” from Corporate Knights adds another top 10 ranking for Duquesne’s one-year full-time MBA emphasizing sustainability. This program has been ranked...
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Why Pittsburgh is an Ideal Place for Young Talent
“Pittsburgh has a hunger for new, younger, educated employees,” according to Laura Fisher, the Senior Vice President for Workforce and Special Projects of the Allegheny Conference. One reason why...
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Game On! This is How our Generation will Create Positive Impact
“Be the change you want to see in the world” is a quote from Ghandi, and represents the essence of the 2015 Net Impact conference in Seattle. The Net Impact chapter officers of Duquesne were fortunate...
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From France to Frankfurt…
2016 will see the MBA Sustainability cohort travel throughout Europe! We will be arriving in Paris, and then off to ICN Business School in Nancy, France. After Nancy, we will head to Strasbourg,...
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Sustainability Headlines of 2015
Friend of the program Andrew Winston, who is the author of Green to Gold and has spoken at Duquesne many times, has recently released an article in the Harvard Business Review that highlights the top...
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Leadership and Life
Jack Ouellette is current chairman, previous president and former CEO of American Textile, a multinational company that manufactures protective and allergen barrier bedding products. He’s also a...
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Student Spotlight – Rajany Mathew
Before Duquesne: Rajany served as a Peace Corps Volunteer for 27 months in the beautiful island of Madagascar. From 2013 to 2015, she worked as an Agri-business volunteer, which involved working with...
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Net Impact Mixer at the Science Center
Members from across campuses in the Net Impact community met to explore the wonderment and knowledge inside the Carnegie Science Center. The 21+ Night was the stage for a meeting of minds, and some...
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Six Thinking Hats & The Hedgehog Concept
In the first topic seminar of this semester, two of the sMBA students, tackled two intriguing issues. The first of which, the Six Thinking Hats concept, introduced the idea of creating a balanced group...
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Sustainable Design Centers Consulting Projects this Semester
Designing an urban oasis in cooperation with Phipps Conservatory, developing an innovative restaurant concept in conjunction with Eat’N Park, and identifying best practices in financing sustainable...
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You Can Negotiate Anything…
Recently, two members of our MBA Sustainability cohort lead a discussion about the craft of negotiating. Throughout their lesson, they covered different outcomes that result from negotiation, and these...
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UptoUs Duq Team Raises Awareness and Turns Heads
With an unconventional approach to attract attention, using a MoneyMachine to spark people’s interest, Duquesne’s UptoUs competition team held an awareness event at the Union that featured a Money...
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