by Dana Palumbo Over Labor Day weekend, members of Duquesne University’s Net Impact group traveled to Toronto, Canada. Toronto is considered one of the world’s most sustainable cities; in 2018, Toronto ranked …
Category: Outside the Classroom
Duquesne Basketball Game
by Christopher Johnson Recently, I was able to attend my very first Duquesne Women’s basketball game compliments of the Donahue Business Society and Duquesne Program Council. The Dukes were up against the …
Sustaining Art
— Ranbir Gill Art has always played a central role in my life. From canvases lined up in my room, journals filled with dramatic poetry entries, to late night theatre rehearsals. Attending a …
Integrity of Creation Conference
— Bijoy Ghosh Dr. Paul Shrivastava, Chief Sustainability Officer at Penn State, Director of the Sustainability Institute, and Professor of Management at the Smeal College of Business, opened this year’s Integrity of Creation …
National Black MBA Association Conference 2018
by Chris Johnson The 40th Annual National Black MBA Association Conference was an event that not only lived up to the hype eluded to by friends, colleagues and faculty; it exceeded my …
The Tower at PNC Plaza
Designed for innovation, collaboration and employee well-being by Laura Jernegan Being a relatively small city, Pittsburgh’s skyline is unique in the way that all of the major skyscrapers are concentrated in one …
The Scoobi Experience
As I mentioned in my last blog entry (“Kayaking the Rivers”), I’m new to Pittsburgh. I don’t have a car, so I’m still figuring out the best way to get around – …
Students Visit Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens
— Gage Giunta In a little less than a month into our first semester as MBA students, we had our first successful Net Impact event, a tour at Pittsburgh’s Phipps Conservatory and Botanical …
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Kayaking the Rivers
— Kevin Dole, I’m not from Pittsburgh, so after being accepted into Duquesne University’s Palumbo-Donahue MBA Sustainable Business Practices, the first thing I did was look up the city on a map. …
Reflections from the 2018 Aspen Case Competition
The 2018 Aspen Institute Case Competition kicked off with an 80 page case regarding sustainability issues facing Marina Bay Sands, a large hotel and casino in Singapore. Over the 72 hours we …
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