Malcolm Preston is Global Head of Sustainability Services at PricewaterhouseCoopers, and leads a global team of some 700 sustainability and climate change experts, with over 100 based in the UK. During his career he has advised large multinationals, entrepreneurial start-ups and co-led the firm’s dot.com team through the turn of the century.  He has led the Sustainability & Climate Change team since 2008.

Preston specializes in the measurement and valuation of environmental, social and economic impacts. He leads PwC’s Total Impact Measurement and Management (TIMM) team, delivering projects for numerous clients including SSE plc, TUI Group plc, TomKat Ranch and a number of large Fortune 100 corporates.

Additionally, Preston leads PwC’s thou on the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals and, in particular, the role of the private sector in their achievement. He is actively engaged with numerous UN agencies and other bodies on this subject and is responsible for the development of PwC’s bespoke tool, the SDG Business Navigator.

Preston is also a Faculty Member of the Harvard Executive Education Sustainability Leadership program.

An accomplished speaker, Preston has been featured at numerous events including the BASD and B4E events at Rio +20, at the UN’s Post 2015 MDG Forum, the inaugural Global Business of Biodiversity  conference, the Economist Global Ocean Summits, the Shared Value Initiative, the World Economic Forum, the Commonwealth Heads of Government Business Forum in Malta, UNCTAD XIV in Nairobi, the International Conference on Sustainable Development at Columbia University and the Responsible Business Forum in Singapore, Jakarta and Johannesburg.  

• BS, 1979, Chemistry and Oceanography, University of Southampton, Joint Honours

Decision-Making for Sustainable Business (SSIM-947-5)
The role of business in society is changing with increasing expectations that business will deliver value not just to shareholders, but also to multiple other stakeholders, whilst taking care of and respecting the environment. Corporate management and reporting systems are now required to keep pace with these changing expectations, and corporate Boards need the tools and frameworks to make decisions that take these competing demands in to account. This 5-week course will explore the challenges the C-Suite and the Board Room face in meeting sustainable business expectations and introduce the emerging tools and frameworks available to enable them to manage and report their progress in the 21st century. Through lectures, case studies and simulated situations, students will learn practical tools and frameworks used by business to understand their role in society, how they measure and report impact, how they align their strategy with government policy (through the Sustainable Development Goals) and how to formulate a business case for transformational and sustainable practices.

Field Study (SSIM-498-5)
Field Studies include those opportunities outside of the regular curriculum in which a student is working with an outside company or non-profit organization to address a real-world business challenge for course credit under the oversight of a faculty member.