Katherine Burson Associate Professor of Marketing, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan Abstract: Energy consumption is a growing concern, driving legislation requiring manufacturing of more fuel-efficient cars and more transparent scales to convey fuel-efficiency. However, consumers’ understanding of fuel efficiency and its cost when expressed on different scales is unclear. Expanded scales of fuel […]
Mike Toffel Associate Professor of Business Administration, Center for Harvard University Co-Sponsor: Ross Strategy View other colloquia events
Jeff York Assistant Professor, Shane Faculty Scholar, University of Colorado Boulder "It's Not Easy Building Green: How Community Logics Impact the Emergency of Hybrid Market Categories" Abstract: An emerging body of scholarship examines the emergence of market categories, including those that enable environmentally beneficial practices and technologies. The acceptance and growth of such new categories […]
Shon Hiatt Assistant Professor of Management and Organization, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California Co-Sponsor: Ross Strategy View other colloquia events
Rob Klassen Professor, Deans' Office, Operations Management; Associate Dean, Faculty Development and Research, Ivey School of Business, Western University Canada View other colloquia events
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 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 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, 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, 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 […]
