Biography
Barbara Dyer is president & CEO of The Hitachi Foundation and Senior Lecturer at MIT’s Sloan School of Management. Ms. Dyer shaped The Hitachi Foundation’s focus on the role of business in society with an emphasis at the intersection of people and profit. The Foundation has been an influential force in the CSR/Sustainability field urging greater emphasis on the firm’s impacts on people and social-value-creation. Signature programs – Entrepreneurship @ Work and Good Companies @ Work – discover and spread lessons from business leaders who are exemplars of social sustainability. At MIT Sloan Ms. Dyer teaches social sustainability and is a member of three faculty groups addressing workforce, sustainability and health care issues.
Ms. Dyer’s career spans the public, private and nonprofit sectors having served as Special Assistant to the Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior followed by more than a decade with the National Governors Association’s Council of Governors’ Policy Advisors and then the National Academy of Public Administration. She is the author of several books and papers and serves as a trustee of Clark University.