MBA Intensive Speakers
Guest lectures are free and open to the public. The Marlboro College Graduate Center is located at 28 Vernon Street, Brattleboro, Vermont.
Friday, June 11, 5:30pm, Room 2East
Aveda Earth and Community Care: A 30-Year Journey in Green Leadership - Chuck Bennett, VP of Earth & Community Care, Aveda Corporation
Aveda has been a values-based, mission-focused brand since its inception in 1978. Translating values and mission into business reality is both opportunity and challenge. Meeting the challenges and realizing the opportunities are what managing for sustainability are all about.
In his role at Aveda since early 2007, Chuck is responsible for leading the company's environmental and community outreach. He guides the company and its affiliated network of salons and retail outlets in taking the Aveda mission to new levels of success globally. He also works closely with parent-company Estée-Lauder's broader development of sustainability and corporate responsibility commitments.
Bennett is a graduate of Northfield Mount Hermon in Massachusetts and Middlebury College in Vermont, as well as a former Peace Corps volunteer.
Previous Presentations
5/14/10 - Lisa Lorimer, former CEO of Vermont Bread Company - Dealing with Tough Stuff Watch
3/25/10 - Dr. Chris Martenson, ChrisMartenson.com - Convergence: Can the Economy As We Know It Survive Resource Depletion? Watch
2/26/10 - Ron Nahser, Managing Director for CORPORANTES, Inc. - What is the "Good Life" in a Finite World? U.S. and China in an Age of Ecological Crisis. Watch
1/15/10 - John Abrams, Cofounder and CEO of South Mountain Company - Sharing Ownership of the Future Watch
12/11/09 - Beyond SRI: The Future of Socially Responsible Investing - Panel discussion moderated by Anders Ferguson (VERIS Wealth Partners), featuing Peter Kinder (RiskMetrics Group, Cary Krosinsky (Trucost), Terry Mollner (Stakeholders Capital) and KC Burton (Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility.) Watch
11/13/09 - Doug Cox, founder of Cox Violins - Place, Art & Health: A Brattleboro Perspective
10/9/09 - Joe Sibilia, CEO of Meadowbrook Lane Capital and CSRWire.com - Authentic Leadership
9/11/09 - Mary Powell, President and CEO of Green Mountain Power - The Courage to Lead
6/12/09 - Kevin Lyons, Chief Procurement Officer, Rutgers University - Greening the Suppy Chain and Purchasing. Watch
5/15/09 - Steve McDonough, CLIMATECheck - Measuring Greenhouse Gas Emissions
3/27/09 - Beth Ginsberg Holzman, CSR Manager, The Timberland Company - Timberland's Commitment to CSR. Watch
2/27/09 - Lynn Benander, founder of Co-op Power - Sustainable Community Solutions to the Energy Crisis.
11/7/08 - Dr. Roger Saillant, former president and CEO of Plug Power, Inc. - Moving from an Unsustainable Path by Changing Our Patterns of Thought.
10/11/08 - Jeremy Grantham, co-founder of the global investment management firm, GMO, and the Grantham Foundation for the Environment - Conference call with MBA students about the current financial crisis on Wall Street.
10/10/08 - Gregor Barnum, director of corporate consciousness at Seventh Generation, Inc. - Is Sustainability enough? Or the Dawning of Regenerative Business-ing Watch
9/17/08 - Solartaxi Visit - Video from Louis Palmer's presentation on the potential of solar power
6/20/08 - Neil Joseph - The Sonnax Story: Entrepreneurship in High Gear
6/9/08 - James Kunstler - The Long Emergency
5/9/08 - Elizabeth Bankowski - Doing Good by Doing Good: making the business case for social and environmental responsibility
5/8/08 - Gwendolyn Hallsmith, founder of Global Community Initiatives - Intentional Cities, Intentional Economies Watch
3/29/08 - Gifford Pinchot, founder of Bainbridge Institute - Open House address.
3/28/08 - Paul Millman, president of Chroma Technology Corp. - Sustainable Jeopardy.
2/22/08 - Alex Wilson, president of BuildingGreen, Inc. - From Green Building to Community Sustainability and Passive Survivability.
1/25/08 - Vermont State Treasurer Jeb Spaulding - Sustainability and State Finance: Strategic Decision-Making and 'Win-Win' Strategies. Listen
