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September 02, 2011 | Comments 0
Thirty-Five Years of Research on Business and the Natural Environment
In his recent blog for Organizations and the Natural Environment (ONE), a community of scholars within the Academy of Management, Andrew Hoffman (University of Michigan) offers a 3-part commentary on Thirty-Five Years of Research on Business and the Natural Environment (B&NE). In it he discusses "the boundaries, historical trajectory and seminal papers of this field of inquiry". Please click below...
May 27, 2011 | Comments 0
Return of the Leviathan: The 2011 ARCS Conference
It turns out that Hobbes may have been right after all. A Leviathan is needed to prevent our lives from being uncomfortable and brief. Or at least that sentiment could be read into many of the papers at the 3rd Annual ARCS Conference, sponsored by the Initiative for Global Environmental Leadership at the Wharton School at the University of...
August 17, 2010 | Comments 1
Of Signals and Stakeholders
In my last post, I reported on the story of one LEED building that wasn't actually so good for the world, and I noted that despite this it garnered a lot of "good will" from the local government. In my classes, I often hear such good will used as the justification for a company's actions. The argument usually comes up...
April 12, 2010 | Comments 6
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...
May 04, 2009 | Comments 0
Research on Business and the Environment Has Come a Long Way
Research in the area of Business and the Environment (B&E) has come a long way in the nearly twenty years I have been at it. It is hard to believe, but this was a very new area when I first started my PhD in the early 1990s. And in my pursuit of doctoral advisors, more than a few professors declined,...
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