Business Sustainability Program

Grappling with sustainability?
Confronting challenges due to new market demands?
Need help identifying innovations in the sustainability arena?

The USC Business Sustainability Program can help. We provide training and
education to irms in all sectors seeking cutting-edge sustainability solutions. Our
staff offers a diverse range of skills and expertise, including sustainable business
organization and development, carbon reduction and energy eficiency strategies,
complex systems and industrial ecology modeling, and sustainability indicators.
The USC Center for Sustainable Cities (CSC) fosters research, education, and
partnerships to address the sustainability challenges facing metropolitan regions,
and generates innovative solutions that enhance the natural environment,
economic vitality, and social equity of cities worldwide.

Work with experts at the USC Center for Sustainable Cities to

• Identify opportunities for efficiency gains and cost-savings
• Craft communications for your key stakeholders and clients
• Understand initial costs to leverage sustainability pay offs
• Generate win-win opportunities within your value chain (see SEER Program)
• Develop a long term-strategic sustainability plan
• Stay ahead of fast-changing regulation and market demands
  

Basic Program includes:

• Scoping Analysis of your sustainability needs and opportunities (includes a one-day site visit to your firm)
• One–Day Customized Executive Program for up to 25 managers (held at USC campus)
• Coaching Follow-up to facilitate implementation (max: 25 hours)

CSC Business Program Staff

Hilary Bradbury, Ph.D., Program Director
Sustainable Business Organization and Development
Josh Newell, Ph.D.
Global Supply Chain Management, Resource Strategist
Ray Madachy, Ph.D.
Systems Dynamics Modeling
Mansour Rahimi, Ph.D.
Industrial Ecology, Transportation Systems
Robert O. Vos, Ph.D.
Sustainability Indicators, Regional Industrial Ecology
Jennifer Wolch, Ph.D.
Urban Planning, Metropolitan Development

“At Nike, we’ve learned that eforts to develop more sustainable ways of
producing products and operating globally have also presented business
opportunities. Linking to scholars and universities has been crucial to our
sustainability endeavors. Having come to know leaders at the USC Center for
Sustainable Cities, I recommend that others get to know them too!”
— Darcy Winslow, Director Women’s Division, Nike Corporation