<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><h3 style="color: rgb(167, 192, 57); margin: 10px 0px 5px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; font-size: 1.4em; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">Using Data to Disrupt Business as Usual: </h3><h3 style="color: rgb(167, 192, 57); margin: 10px 0px 5px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; font-size: 1.4em; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">Big Data and Sustainability</h3><h4 style="font-family: 'Miso Regular', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.4em; margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Business Stepping Up-- The Lovins Series</h4><h4 style="font-family: 'Miso Regular', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.4em; margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Thursday, March 15, 2018<br>6:30–8:30 pm</h4><b style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">LMHQ, 150 Broadway, 20th Floor, NYC</b><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: center;"><strong><<<<< <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/using-data-to-disrupt-business-as-usual-big-data-and-sustainability-tickets-42987883918" style="color: rgb(167, 192, 57);">TICKETS HERE</a> >>>>></strong><br> </div><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">As President Trump pursues a regressive, isolationist agenda, business is stepping up to address climate change, promote equality and protect human rights, and create economic opportunity. Join sustainability pioneer </span><a href="http://www.bard.edu/mba/people/faculty/index.php?id=987196" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(167, 192, 57); font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"><strong>Hunter Lovins</strong></a><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> for a conversation series with industry experts to explore this shift in progressive business leadership.</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Our March Business Stepping Up conversation will feature JD Capuano, Senior Strategist with Third Partners and Professor of Data, Analytics, and Decisions at Bard's MBA in Sustainability. He will be discussing how big data has transformed business decision making and how companies are using data to measure their progress towards climate change action.</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">JD Capuano is a Senior Strategist with Third Partners, a sustainability consultancy focused on responsible business strategy, data science and marketing. JD works with clients on sustainability strategy and data projects across industries at Fortune 500 and privately-held companies. He does some independent strategy consulting on business process optimization and marketing science. JD co-founded and led Closed Loop Advisors, a data-driven sustainability management consultancy, from 2011 until 2016. Prior to his work in sustainability, JD spent nearly a decade in global business analytics at Schering-Plough (now Merck). At Schering-Plough, his responsibilities ranged from coding and analyzing big data sets to being a dedicated in-house management consultant for VPs in marketing and sales. His career began pioneering a role that maximized use of the internet to grow business at a mid-sized recruiting firm. JD has consulted at an executive level on strategic and operational challenges for over a decade, striking a balance between innovation and practicality while planning and implementing projects. He speaks at sustainability and technology events, has been recognized by Crain’s New York, and his work has been cited in Bloomberg Businessweek. JD has been involved with a number of nonprofit programs focused on the environment and civic engagement.</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Join Bard MBA in Sustainability as we host the Business Stepping Up Series monthly in downtown Manhattan featuring Hunter Lovins in discussion with Bard MBA faculty and alumni who are part of this business revolution.</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: center;">Follow along with <strong>Business Stepping Up</strong> in the monthly <strong>Huffington Post</strong> column previewing that month's event:</div><ul style="padding: 0px; margin: 0em 0px 0px 1em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"><li style="line-height: 1.3em; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0.3em;"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/599216ade4b063e2ae058224" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(167, 192, 57);">Business Stepping Up: The Principles of Sustainable Management</a></li><li style="line-height: 1.3em; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0.3em;"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/599b2165e4b0ac90f2cba8ff" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(167, 192, 57);">Business Stepping Up Episode II: Entrepreneuring a Finer Future</a></li><li style="line-height: 1.3em; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0.3em;"><a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/leading-change-in-organizations_us_5a2eb7c0e4b04cb297c2aedc" style="color: rgb(167, 192, 57);">Leading Change in Organizations</a></li></ul><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Light refreshments provided.</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Limited seating.</span><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: center;"><strong><<<<< <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/using-data-to-disrupt-business-as-usual-big-data-and-sustainability-tickets-42987883918" style="color: rgb(167, 192, 57);">TICKETS HERE </a>>>>>></strong></div><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Sponsored by: Bard MBA in Sustainability.</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail </span><a href="mailto:kboyle@bard.edu" style="color: rgb(167, 192, 57); font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">kboyle@bard.edu</a><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, or visit </span><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/using-data-to-disrupt-business-as-usual-big-data-and-sustainability-tickets-42987883918" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(167, 192, 57); font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;">https://www.eventbrite.com/e/using-data-to-disrupt-business-as-usual-big-data-and-sustainability-tickets-42987883918</a><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><div><font color="#333333" face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 11px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></font><div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div apple-content-edited="true">
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