Shon Hiatt / Erb Colloquium
Shon Hiatt Assistant Professor of Management and Organization, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California Co-Sponsor: Ross Strategy View other colloquia events
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Rob Klassen / Erb Colloquium
Rob Klassen Professor, Deans' Office, Operations Management; Associate Dean, Faculty Development and Research, Ivey School of Business, Western University Canada View other colloquia events
Apr 1 – Guy Holburn / Erb Colloquium
Photography Guy Holburn Associate Professor, Business Economics and Public Policy; Director, Ivey Energy Policy and Management Centre; Suncor Chair in Energy Policy, Ivey Business School, Western University Canada Co-Sponsor: Business Economics View other colloquia events
Paul Adler / Erb Colloquium
Paul Adler Harold Quinton Chair in Business Policy and Professor of Management and Organization, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California Co-Sponsor: Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies (ICOS) View other colloquia events
Klaus Weber / Erb Colloquium
Klaus Weber Associate Professor of Management and Organizations, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern Co-Sponsor: Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies (ICOS) View other colloquia events
Simone Pulver / Erb Colloquium
Simone Pulver, UC Santa Barbara Department of Environmental Studies Title: Disproportionality and the Governance of Environmental Pollution Abstract: A key feature of society’s impact on the environment is its unevenness. The late environmental sociologist William Freudenburg termed this pattern disproportionality, which he defined as “the strikingly unequal patterns of privileged access to environmental rights and […]
Phil Howard / Erb Colloquium
Phil Howard, Department of Community Sustainability, Michigan State University Title: Food and Power: How the Largest Firms Shape What We Eat and Drink Abstract: The largest packaged food and beverage makers constantly run into the limited size of our stomachs in their efforts to increase their power. There is only so much we can physically […]
Michael Lenox / Erb Colloquium
Michael Lenox Tayloe Murphy Professor of Business Administration; Senior Associate Dean and Chief Strategy Officer, University of Virginia Darden School of Business Professor Lenox's research has appeared in over twenty-five refereed academic publications and has been cited in a number of media outlets including the New York Times, the Financial Times, and the Economist. In […]
Sara Soderstrom & Todd Schifeling / Erb Colloquium
Sara Soderstrom and Todd Schifeling presented on emerging research based on following the 2016 cohort of fellows in EDF's Climate Corps program. These change agents are tasked with achieving substantial improvements in energy practices at major organizations in about ten weeks. This is an ideal research setting for learning about how to accelerate the changes […]
Kira Fabrizio / Erb Colloquium
Kira Fabrizio came to the Boston University School of Management in 2011 from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. She received her PhD and MA from the University of California at Berkeley’s Haas School of Business and her BA from Wesleyan University. Her areas of interest involve knowledge exploitation, firm strategy, innovation, intellectual property rights, […]
Marian Chertow / Erb Colloquium
Marian Chertow is a professor of industrial environmental management at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. Her research and teaching focus on industrial ecology, business/environment issues, waste management, circular economy, and urban industrial systems. Current research interests are: (1) industrial symbiosis involving geographically based exchanges of materials, energy, water and wastes within networks […]
David Drake – CANCELLED
David Drake, Harvard Business School Co-sponsored by the Ross M&O Seminar Series Title: Carbon Tariffs: Effects in Settings with Technology Choice Abstract: Emissions regulation today is non-uniform, with some regions imposing carbon costs within their borders while many others do not. This gives rise to concerns over carbon leakage---offshoring and foreign entry in response to […]
Ion Bogdan Vasi / Erb Colloquium
Ion Bogdan Vasi, Department of Sociology, University of Iowa Title: Here Comes the Sun. Social Movements, Industry Associations, and Consumer Behaviors in the Residential Solar Photovoltaics Market Abstract: Despite the remarkable breadth and depth of research on social movement outcomes, relatively little attention has been given to the effect of movements on individual actions such […]
Massimo Tavoni / Erb Colloquium
Massimo Tavoni, Department of Management, Politecnico di Milano Title: Modeling the Climate Change Challenge Abstract: Understanding climate change requires a major integration of different disciplines, from social sciences to environmental science to technology. This talk will describe how integrated assessment tools can help model climate change and inform the policy debate. We will discuss the […]
Michael Siegrist (ETH Zurich)/Erb Colloquium
Symbolic Information Causes Biased Decisions In assessing the outcomes of decisions, people often rely on the symbolic information while neglecting other crucial information. People may be especially prone to rely on this information on topics that are subject to social norms, such as environmentally friendly behavior, environmental risks or risks for humans. I present a […]
Tima Bansal/Erb Colloquium (co-sponsored with Ross Strategy)
MAKING SOCIAL ISSUES COUNT: How Businesses Address Social and Environmental Issues in Strategic Decision-Making Pratima (Tima) Bansal, Ivey Business School, Western University (London, Canada) Prior research tends to investigate organizational responses to social and environmental issues after the organization has already responded, often exploring why or how organizations are socially or environmentally responsible. The problem […]
Forrest Briscoe/Erb Colloquium – Co-sponsored with Ross M&O
Stakeholder Ideological Congruence and the Adoption of Controversial Practices Forrest Briscoe is an associate professor of Management and Organization, and a Frank & Mary Jean Smeal Research Fellow, in the Smeal College of Business. He also holds a courtesy appointment in the Department of Sociology. New organizational practices often become yoked to particular ideological positions in society. When […]
Aruna Ranganathan/Erb Colloquium
Leading by Doing: How Female Supervisors Motivate Worker Productivity through Subordinate Scut Work Aruna Ranganathan is an Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Stanford Graduate School of Business Abstract: Using ethnographic, personnel, and field experimental data from an Indian garment factory, this paper investigates whether manager gender affects worker productivity and if so, how. We argue that […]
Mary Hunter-McDonnell/Erb Colloquium – Co-sponsored with Ross Strategy
Take a Stand or Keep Your Seat: Independent Director Turnover following Social Activist Challenges Outside directors play a major role in modern corporate governance by providing firms with valuable human and social capital as well as serving as the primary monitors of managers. Given their influence, researchers have been increasingly interested in understanding what motivates […]
Todd Schifeling / Erb Colloquium
Todd Schifeling will present a study of the evolution of green marketing over the last thirty years that engages with two key questions: i) are green consumer products merely a case of greenwashing? and ii) how have green marketers attempted to earn the trust of skeptical consumers? Co-sponsor: Center for Sustainable Systems
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Panikos Georgallis / Erb Colloquium
Title: “Shine on me: Industry coherence, social movement support, and government endorsement of the solar photovoltaic industry” 3:30pm Location: Ross, R2320 Panikos Georgallis Dow Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Erb Institute; Energy Institute, University of Michigan
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North American Colloquium: Emergent Issues in Climate Politics and Policy on a Warming Continent
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North American Colloquium: Emergent Issues in Climate Politics and Policy on a Warming Continent
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