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Professor Stuart L. Hart Practicums Lead Stuart L. Hart is among the world's top authorities on the implications of environment and poverty for business strategy. He is the Steven Grossman Endowed Chair in Sustainable Business at UVM’s Grossman School of Business, and the S.C. Johnson Chair Emeritus in Sustainable Global Enterprise and Professor Emeritus at Cornell University's Johnson Graduate School of Management, where he founded the Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise. Stuart is Founder and President of Enterprise for a Sustainable World, and Founder of the BoP Global Network. He has also held positions as the Hans Zulliger Distinguished Professor of Sustainable Enterprise at the University of North Carolina's Kenan-Flagler Business School, where he founded the Center for Sustainable Enterprise and the Base of the Pyramid Learning Laboratory; and as faculty in corporate strategy at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business where he was the Founding Director of the Corporate Environmental Management Program (now the Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise). Stuart has published more than 100 papers and cases and authored or edited eight books, amassing over 30,000 Google Scholar citations. His article “Beyond Greening: Strategies for a Sustainable World” helped launch the movement for corporate sustainability and won the McKinsey Award for Best Article in the Harvard Business Review in 1997. With C.K. Prahalad, Stuart coauthored the path-breaking 2002 article, “The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid” about how business could profitably serve the needs of four billion people in the developing world. His best-selling book “Capitalism at the Crossroads” was selected by Cambridge University as one of the top 50 books on sustainability of all-time. Stuart was instrumental in developing this program and in establishing partnerships with numerous sustainable business leaders and cutting-edge companies.
Paula Cope Launch Lead Ms. Cope is a full-time lecturer in organization behavior and human resources. Ms. Cope specializes in organization development, team dynamics, change management, and leadership. In addition, she is the Launch Lead and Career Counselor for the Sustainable Innovation MBA Program guiding the students to initiate and launch their career journeys and new ventures. Ms. Cope holds two degrees from the University of Vermont (BS & MEd). In 2012, she was the recipient of the Distinguished Service Award, awarded by the University of Vermont and in 2005 she was named Vermont's Small Business Woman of the Year, awarded by the U.S. Small Business Administration. Ms. Cope is also president of Cope & Associates, Inc., a consulting and training firm in Vermont operating since 1991. Prior to founding Cope & Associates, Inc., Ms. Cope was in non-profit management and later joined TD Bank (formerly TD Banknorth) as Director of Training & Development.
Noelle Sevoian Program Specialist Noelle recently joined The Sustainable Innovation MBA program team as our full time Program Specialist. She holds a M.S. from UVM’s Community Development and Applied Economics program, and a B.S. in International Business and Management from Suffolk University in Boston, MA. Noelle brings over five years of experience as Program Manager for the Working Lands Enterprise Initiative, a VT Agency investment program for Vermont Farm, Food, and Forestry enterprises.