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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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, 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, 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
