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October 2022
CPRT Expert Dialogue: The Bridge Alliance: Tapping Ideological, Racial, Generational & Gender Diversity to Renew Civic Space… and How Business Can Help
A CPRT Expert Dialogue with Debilyn Molineaux and Rev. Dr. F. Willis Johnson of The Bridge Alliance Though many business leaders are concerned about the effects of polarization and partisan conflict internally and externally, few are aware of the burgeoning movement to build bridges and renew civic space. Members of the Bridge Alliance, a coalition of over 90 organizations representing over three million Americans, are embracing ideological, racial, generational and gender diversity and collaborating to promote healthy self-governance in our…
Find out more »November 2022
CPRT Expert Dialogue: A Conservative Perspective on Clean Energy Innovation: Implications for CPR Following the 2022 Midterm Elections
A CPRT Expert Dialogue with Tyler Duvelius of the Conservative Energy Network Thursday, November 17, 3-4:15pm ET Tyler Duvelius has built his career bringing conservative viewpoints into the clean energy conversation, working to educate, train, and organize conservative grassroots support for clean energy issues, and actively participating in clean energy policy discussions at the local, state, and federal levels. Please join us for an engaging Expert Dialogue with Tyler where we will explore: How would you describe a conservative approach to clean…
Find out more »December 2022
CPR, Externalities & Fiduciary Duty: Why Investors are Concerned about Corporate Impacts on People & Planet
A CPRT Expert Dialogue with Josh Zinner of ICCR and John Keenan of AFSCME Investors are increasingly concerned about the impacts corporations have on people and the planet, and the risks these can create for businesses, investors, and beneficiaries. Institutional investors in particular worry about “externalities” that can undermine a firm’s financial performance or amplify systemic risks across all portfolios. Given these impacts, some investors view it as central to their fiduciary duty to engage more actively with portfolio companies,…
Find out more »January 2023
Racial and Economic Equity, Inclusion and Long-term Sustainability: The Critical Role of CPR
A CPRT Expert Dialogue with Mahlet Getachew of PolicyLink Over the past few years, business leaders have become more aware of racial discrimination and economic inequity, and how they affect employees, customers, communities and their businesses. Many are now working to create cultures of equity and inclusion, promote economic opportunity and invest in the communities where they operate, yet important questions remain if their efforts are to be effective. Please join us for a timely interactive dialogue with Mahlet Getachew,…
Find out more »February 2023
The Paradoxes of Shareholder Voice: CPR & the Investment Manager Perspective
A CPRT Expert Dialogue with Jonas Kron, Chief Advocacy Officer at Trillium Asset Management Amidst the current debate about ESG and impact investing, fund managers are taking a deeper look at the political activities of the companies they invest in. Some push companies into active advocacy. Others focus on ensuring that political influences are not adding risk, or insisting that firms stay out of politics altogether. Yet all of these strategies raise enormous practical questions. Please join us for our…
Find out more »March 2023
CPRT Expert Dialogue: Better Disclosure: Could a Voluntary Lobby Disclosure Platform Improve CPR While Lowering Reporting Requirements?
An Expert Dialogue with Christine Mahoney of the University of Virginia Despite the enormous burden of current reporting requirements on lobbying activity, there is surprisingly little useful information to enable problem-solving or accountability. Meanwhile, companies now face pressure to report in more depth on the issues they advocacy priorities and their positions on key issues. Lawmakers and their staffs struggle to make sense of the policy landscape and cumbersome comment processes, while constituents are demanding more accountability from their elected…
Find out more »The Battle Over ESG: Profits, Purpose & Politics
We are excited to host a timely discussion about ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) at Ross Business School in March, featuring Elizabeth Doty (Director, Erb Corporate Political Responsibility Taskforce); Bennett Freeman (Associate Fellow of Chatham House and former Senior Vice President of Calvert Investments); Vik Khanna (William W. Cook Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School); and moderated by Erb Institute Faculty Director, Tom Lyon. As the ESG agenda has gained traction and momentum over the last decade, it has attracted inevitable criticism and a backlash—and now even a…
Find out more »December 2016
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 in the trenches that are urgently needed to address climate change. Co-sponsored by Ross M & O
Find out more »October 2016
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 of businesses; (2) industrial ecology in resource-poor, emerging economies; (3) using material flow analysis and other methods to quantify and compare resource flows through urban…
Find out more »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, and environmental policy. In addition, she has received various awards for her scholarly work, including the Crawford Dissertation Fellowship and the Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship.…
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