Our Mission
ARCS serves as a vehicle for advancing rigorous academic research on corporate sustainability issues. ARCS provides data, tools and networking opportunities to researchers who are developing greater understanding of the opportunities and limits of policies and strategies to create sustainable businesses.
LEED Certification = Greenwashing?
A few weeks ago, my students and I discussed a local drug company's new LEED platinum building. The building was the first to be given the highest level of certification for environmental performance by the US Green Business Council. By building it, the drug company received voluminous and tremendously positive press coverage. And yet, the more my class and I... More Comments (5)
2009 Page Prize Announced
Professor Andrew Hoffman of the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business recently received the 2009 Moore School of Business Page Prize for Sustainability Issues in Business Curricula for his course Green Construction & Design. Harvard Business School Professors Michael Toffel and Forest Reinhardt also won for their course, Business and the Environment. Honorable mentions were given to professors at... More
Introduction to the Alliance for Research on Corporate Sustainability
Faculty Director Michael Lenox and Managing Director Erika Herz of the Alliance for Research on Corporate Sustainability (ARCS) discuss how... More
3rd Annual ARCS Conference
May 9-11, 2011
The 3rd Annual ARCS Conference will take place May 9-11, 2011 at The University of Pennsylvania Wharton School. The Call... More
Ivey PhD Sustainability Academy 2010: Markets & Movements for Sustainability
November 4-9, 2010
The Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario will convene the third annual PhD Sustainability Academy... More
Alliance for Research on Corporate Sustainability