MIT SDM - System Design and Management

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2020-10-25 09:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | SDM Lecture Hall

Steven D. Eppinger presents, “10 Agile Ideas Worth Sharing”
2020-06-17 12:00 - 17:00 | Webinar
Agile development has created a number of very effective practices through implementation largely in the software…

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2020-03-09 15:22 | Webinar

Webinar: Nicholas A. Ashford, "Sustainable Development at a Crossroads"
2020-01-22 11:00 - 17:00 | Strata Center
Speaker: Nicholas A. Ashford, MIT Professor of Technology and Policy and Director of the MIT Technology and Law Program
Date: February 11, 2020

Slides for this webinar are now available – click here to download.
About the talk: “Sustainable Development at a Crossroads: Challenges for Industrial Growth, Economic Welfare, Employment, and Environment”
The most important barrier to achieving a transformation to a more sustainable industrial system is lock-in or path dependency due to (1) the failure to envision, design, and implement policies that achieve co-optimization, or the mutually reinforcing – rather than compromising – of societal goals (increasing economic welfare, environmental quality, and employment/earning capacity) and (2) entrenched economic and political interests that game (and gain from) the present system and advancement of its current trends. System-wide change requires system-wide thinking and action — and direct confrontation of wrong-headed policies.
About the speaker: Nicholas A. Ashford is Professor of Technology & Policy and Director of the Technology & Law Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he teaches courses in environmental law, policy, and economics; law, technology, and public policy; and technology, globalization, and sustainable development. Dr. Ashford is a faculty associate of the Center for Socio-technical Research in the School of Engineering; the Institute for Work and Employment Research in the Sloan School of Management; and the Environmental Policy Group in the Urban Studies Department. He holds both a Ph.D. in Chemistry and a Law Degree from the University of Chicago, where he also received graduate education in Economics.
Dr. Ashford is the co-author of two important textbooks/readers addressing sustainable development: Technology, Globalization, and Sustainable Development: Transforming the Industrial State (2018, Routledge Press) and Environmental Law, Policy and Economics: Reclaiming the Environmental Agenda (2008, MIT Press) He has also published several hundred articles in peer-reviewed journals and law reviews. More information is available on his faculty website.
