US Embassy Leads Efforts to Shift Botswana NGOs Towards Social Entrepreneurship 

Associate Professor and Chair of Management Programs, Dr. Latha Poonamallee, examines the concept of “social entrepreneurship,” which is replacing traditional non-profit funding models.

Book launch and discussion: Globalism and Localization: Emergent Approaches to Ecological and Social Crises 

Within this discussion, panelist expound upon the connection between local and global phenomenon within their respective fields including social ecology, climate justice, ecopsychology, big history, peace ecology, social justice, community resilience, indigenous rights, permaculture, food justice, liberatory politics, and both transformative and transpersonal studies.

Featuring panelists included: Brian Tokar, Asoka Bandarage, Jeanine Canty, and Professor and Chair of the M.S in Environmental Policy and Sustainability Management Program Dr. Ana Baptista.

Own This! How to Take Back the Internet!

Milano School Professor Trebor Scholz

Zero Waste Project

Donna Maione ’15 is a sustainability design researcher and Parsons faculty member. Through a Faculty Support Grant from the Tishman Environment and Design Center, she led a zero-waste textile workshop as part of an interdisciplinary and collaborative research project.

Read about Donna’s project at the Tishman Environment and Design Center

Milano Recognition Ceremony 2019

Public and Urban Policy Brown Bag Talk | Rail Transit, Displacement, and Gentrification

Indigeneity and the Responsibilities of Scholar Activism

Indigenous Resistance & the Crisis of Mother Earth: Paths to Climate Justice Panel 

Milano Brown Bag Talk | Sustainability in Company Management:The Swiss Experience

Public and Urban Policy Brown Bag Talk | Climate Governance, Urban Experiments and Citizenship: Insights from Mexico City

Public and Urban Policy Brown Bag Talk | Census 2020

Milano Management Brown Bag Talk | Reimagining Social Movements

A Q & A with Faculty Member Mindy Fullilove

Mindy Fullilove, Professor of Urban Policy and Health, sits down to talk about her teaching and her work with our Public and Urban Policy student ambassador.

Environmental Policy and Sustainability Management Brown Bag: Students in Action

Watch as Environmental Policy and Sustainability Management (EPSM) students share their environmental justice and sustainability internship and work experiences.

Featuring Genesis Abreu, WE ACT/Asociación ANDES; Maxwell Barnett, NYC Mayor Office of Sustainability; Cheryl Bennett, Sustainable coffee farm; Daniela Rico, NRDC; and Meike Carmen Willems, National Action Plan for Coffee/Green Commodities UNDP Peru. Chair Ana Baptista, Moderator.

Public and Urban Policy Brown Bag | NYC’s Affordable Housing Plan Under de Blasio and the Limits of Local Initiative in Making Housing Affordable

In this talk, Alex Schwartz, Professor of Urban Policy at Milano and author of, Housing Policy in the United States, provides an overview of the de Blasio plan, placing it in the context of the city’s previous housing programs and the city’s current housing market dynamics. He argues that the shortcomings of the plan in delivering housing affordable to low-income households highlight fundamental limitations in the ability of state and local governments to address the housing needs of low-income residents.

Milano Management Brown Bag Talk | Virtues and the Common Good in Leadership

In this Milano Management Brown Bag talk, Aliza Racelis, Business Ethics professor at the University of the Philippines and Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the New York Institute of Technology, discusses her work and recent book chapter in Business Ethics: A Virtue Ethics and Common Good.

Milano Management Brown Bag Talk | Corbin Hill Food Project

Professor of professional practice and Corbin Hill Food Project founder Dennis Derryck discusses how the Corbin Hill Food Project, a values driven social enterprise, is making the transition from food access to community ownership and wealth creation. 

Milano Management Brown Bag Talk | So You Want to be a CEO?

In this Milano Management Brown Bag Talk, Professor Mark Lipton discusses some of the projects that have most influenced his work and how his research has shifted his own thinking and the ways he tries to influence CEOs to lead with purpose and integrity.

Learn more about the Organizational Change Management graduate program.

Milano Management Brown Bag Talk | An Anarchist Prehistory of Management

In his recent book chapter on the anarchist prehistory of management, Associate Professor of Management Nidhi Srinivas shows that, historically, anarchist ideas held much in common with early management theory, including a shared sensitivity to the challenges of organizing. Rather than two hermetic monoliths, ‘management’ and ‘anarchism’ were initially promiscuous domains, borrowing ideas from each other and encouraging woolliness in how they defined and distinguished who they were and what they did.

Creating an Inclusive Economy: Pathways for Impact Entrepreneurs 

The Impact Entrepreneurship Initiative hosted an inspiring panel discussion moderated by Milano’s Michele Kahane, Faculty Director of the Impact Entrepreneurship Initiative,  featuring Anurag Gupta, Founder and CEO, BE MORE America, Diana Mao, Co-founder and President, Nomi Network, Monisha Raja, Founder and Creative Director, Love is Mighty, and Clayton Banks, Co-founder and CEO, Silicon Harlem. These inspiring impact entrepreneurs shared aspects of their own entrepreneurial journeys as they fielded questions about the challenges of launching social ventures that are attempting to create a more inclusive economy. 

Learn more about the Impact Entrepreneurship Initiative and the Graduate Minor in Impact Entrepreneurship.  

Lifting Up Leadership: Corbin Hill Food Project

Dennis Derryck, Executive Director of the Corbin Hill Food Project at The New School and Professor of Professional Practice at the Milano School of Policy, Management, and Environment; alongside Erica Christensen, were interviewed by the Wallace Center at Winrock International. As part of their Lifting Up Leadership series on how their personal commitment to food sovereignty and equity guides their work at Corbin Hill Food Project. 

New School Live: A Conversation on Race in the U.S. 

Maya Wiley, Vice President for Social Justice at The New School and Henry Cohen Professor of Urban Policy and Management at the Milano School of Policy, Management, and Environment shares an intimate half-hour conversation with a group of students to discuss race in the United States — and why it matters today. This conversation is part of New School Live, a series of interactive online events that open up the New School community to viewers from around the world, who can ask questions and comment on events taking place live and in real time on campus—and learn what it’s like to be a New School student in the process.

Policy Director & Environmental Advocate at Information Technology Industry Council

Alexandria, MS Environmental Policy and Sustainability Management ’16, challenges tradition in order to safeguard earth and its people.

Alexandria | Advocate for Environmental Justice from The New School on Vimeo.

The Urban Policy Lab

Milano’s oldest and largest client-centered course. Students in the lab work in teams to advise clients in government and the nonprofit sector on pressing policy and management issues. Working under the supervision of a faculty supervisor, students research the issue, identify possible solutions, and analyze them. The students present their recommendations to the client in a formal briefing and afterward submit a written report incorporating client feedback.

Milano & NSSR’s Darrick Hamilton Joins Bernie Sanders’ Inequality in America Town Hall

Darrick Hamilton, professor of economics and urban policy at the Milano School and The New School for Social Research, speaks during Inequality in America: A National Town Hall with filmmaker/activist Michael Moore, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, and Sen. Bernie Sanders.

Full Town Hall can be watched here: