Stuart L. Hart is an American academic, writer and theorist and the founder of Enterprise for a Sustainable World, a non-profit dedicated to helping businesses make the transition to sustainability. A Fortune 100 consultant, Hart is one of the world's leading authorities on the implications of sustainable development and environmentalism relative to business strategy. He is the S.C. Johnson Chair of Sustainable Global Enterprise and Professor of Management at Cornell University's Johnson School of Management; he is also the founder of the school's Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise and the Base of the Pyramid Learning Lab, comprising seven global facilities. Prof. Hart has taught strategic management and founded both the Center for Sustainable Enterprise (CSE) at the University of North Carolina's Kenan-Flagler Business School, and the Corporate Environmental Management Program (CEMP) at the University of Michigan. Prof. Hart has published over 50 papers and authored or edited five books. In 1997, he wrote the seminal article "Beyond Greening: Strategies for a Sustainable World" which helped launch the movement for corporate sustainability. The article won

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's Mckinsey Award for the best article of the year. With C.K.Prahalad, Prof. Hart also wrote the 2002 article "

The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid The concept of ''The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid'' originally appeared as an article by C. K. Prahalad and Stuart L. Hart in the business journal ''Strategy+Business''. The article was followed by a book with the same title that discusses ...

", later expanded into a book of the same name. He is author of the book ''Capitalism at the Crossroads: The Unlimited Business Opportunities in Solving the World's Most Difficult Problems'' as well as several scholarly articles and publications. According to ''

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'', he is "one of the founding fathers of the "base of the pyramid" economic theory".

Education and career

Hart holds a B.A from

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, an M.F.S. from the

Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies Yale School of the Environment (YSE) is a professional school of Yale University. It was founded to train foresters, and now trains environmental students through four 2-year degree programs ( Master of Environmental Management, Master of Environ ...

, and a Ph.D. from

University of Michigan The University of Michigan (U-M, U of M, or Michigan) is a public university, public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States. Founded in 1817, it is the oldest institution of higher education in the state. The University of Mi ...

. After graduating from UM, where he founded the Corporate Environmental Management Program, he took a position at the Kenan-Flagler Business School in the

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, serving as Hans Zulliger Distinguished Professor of Sustainable Enterprise and Professor of Strategic Management. While there, he founded the

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and the Base of the Pyramid Learning Laboratory. In 2010, he held the Samuel C. Johnson Chair of Sustainable Global Enterprise and Professor of Management at the

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. In 2014, Hart joined the Grossman School of Business at the

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to create a new one-year Sustainable Entrepreneurship MBA.

References

External links

Stuart Hart's official websiteStuart Hart's blogEnterprise for a Sustainable WorldStuart Hart's academic websiteHart’s Business Educators Member Profile
Living people American financial economists University of Rochester alumni Place of birth missing (living people) Year of birth missing (living people) Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies alumni University of Michigan alumni SC Johnson College of Business faculty University of Vermont faculty {{US-economist-stub