Center for Sustainable Development & Global Competitiveness

SDGC is comprised of four research pillars to advance sustainable practices across cultures, businesses, industries and economies.

SDGC

Smart and Sustainable Systems

Researching new technologies and approaches to integrate organizational development strategies with leadership practices that will ensure growth and success within a healthy and sustainable natural environment.

SDGC Research

SCIDR

Stanford Center for Innovation and Design Research

The Stanford Center for Innovation and Design Research (SCIDR), also known as "cider," is dedicated to advancing knowledge at the intersections of business innovation, human-centered research, and design thinking.

SCIDR Research

SLTI

Stanford Research Initiative on Long-Term Investing

Studying pensions, sovereign funds, endowments, foundations and family offices to help them better achieve their objectives, while also unlocking much-needed resources for society's critical projects.

SLTI Research

SCIGC

Stanford Center at the Incheon Global Campus

The SCIGC is Stanford’s flagship research center in South Korea, focusing on researching and developing smart city technologies, sustainable urban systems, and supporting global economic competitiveness.

SCIGC Research

Research Highlight

Saudi Arabia: From the Big Push to the Long Push

Building Resilience Beyond 2030

This comprehensive whitepaper, published jointly by the Center for Sustainable Development & Global Competitiveness and the Stanford Research Initiative on Long-Term Investing, presents a long-term, country-level strategy for sustainability-focused investment and policy change in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia beyond the ambitious plans of the Vision 2030. Authored by Dr. Khalid Alsweilem (Visiting Scholar at SDGC), Professor Michael Lepech (Faculty Director of SDGC), Dr. Ashby Monk (Executive Director of SLTI), and Dr. Malan Reitveld (Advisory Boary Member of SLTI), this study was conducted in cooperation with the Decision Support Center (DSC) of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, an internal research center dedicated to supporting policy decisions in the Kingdom.

Saudi Arabia: From the Big Push to the Long Push (6.46 MB)