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 […]
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 […]
Climate change is a potential threat to the welfare of mankind and its mitigation is becoming urgent. Nuclear energy, which provides one-fifth of U.S. electricity generation, is currently the leading utility-scale, carbon-free baseload power source in America. But it is expensive, controversial, and regulated in a way that poses challenges to technological innovation. So how […]
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 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 […]
Aron Cramer is the President and CEO of BSR. Aron is an authority on corporate responsibility by leaders in business and NGOs. He advises senior executives at BSR’s 250 member companies and other global businesses, and is regularly featured as a speaker at major events and in a range of media outlets. Under his leadership, BSR […]
President, Sol Economics Eric Leenson is President of Sol Economics , a firm that builds strong links between socially responsible enterprises throughout North and South America. He has been involved in the fields of socially responsible investing (SRI) and business for more than 30 years, serving as the CEO of Progressive Asset Management, the first […]
Erica is Dow Chemical’s “go to” person for sustainability reporting, having worked in a variety of technical, environmental, EH&S, and sustainability roles over the past 10 years with the company. This will be a hands on workshop to learn from a sustainability professional working within one of the world's largest chemical companies. Lunch will be provided; […]
