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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]