Associate Professor
Sustainability
Expert on history of business leadership of anti-pollution movements and today’s struggles over how to transition to clean energy
Expertise and Research Interests
- Sustainable Business Strategy
- Business History
- Green Chemistry
- Sustainable Product Design
- Business History and the Environment
- American Environmental History
- Christine Meisner Rosen, Abigail Martin and Alastair Iles. Applying Utilitarianism and Deontology in Managing Bisphenol-A Risks in the United States. Ethics of Chemistry: From Poison Gas to Climate Engineering.
2021 - Christine Meisner Rosen, Abigail Martin and Alastair Iles. Undoing Chemical Industry Lock-ins: Polyvinyl Chloride and Green Chemistry. Ethics of Chemistry: From Poison Gas to Climate Engineering.
2021 - Christine Meisner Rosen, Akos Kokai and Alastair Iles. Green Design Tools: Building Values and Politics into Material Choices. Science, Technology, & Human Values.
2020 - Christine Meisner Rosen, Susie Levy and Alastair Iles. Mapping the Product Life Cycle: Rare Earth Elements in Electronics. Case Studies in the Environment.
2017 - Christine Meisner Rosen, Alastair Iles and Abigail N. Martin. Undoing Chemical Industry Lock-ins: Polyvinyl Chloride and Green Chemistry. HYLE – International Journal for Philosophy of Chemistry.
2017 - Christine Meisner Rosen. Business Leadership in the Movement to Regulate Industrial Air Pollution in Early and Late Nineteenth Century America. Green Capitalism? Business and the Environment in the Twentieth Century.
2017 - Christine Meisner Rosen, Alastair Iles and Abigail N. Martin. Applying Utilitarianism and Deontology in Managing Bisphenol-A Risks in the United States. HYLE – International Journal of the Philosophy of Chemistry.
2016 - Christine Meisner Rosen. What is Business History?. Enterprise & Society.
2013 - Christine Meisner Rosen. Fact Versus Conjecture in the History of Industrial Waste Utilization. Economic Journal Watch.
2012 - Christine Meisner Rosen. Comment: Conceptualizing Hazards. At Work in the World: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on the History of Occupation and Environmental Health.
2012 - Christine Meisner Rosen. The Role of Business Leaders in Community Sustainability Coalitions: An Historical Perspective. Sustainable Communities.
2010 - Christine Meisner Rosen. Business Leadership in the Movement to Regulate Industrial Air Pollution in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century America. Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte / Economic History Yearbook.
2009 - Christine Meisner Rosen. The Role of Pollution Regulation and Litigation in the Development of the U.S. Meatpacking Industry, 1865-1880. Enterprise and Society: The International Journal of Business History.
2007 - Christine Meisner Rosen. Doing Business History in the Age of Global Climate Change. Enterprise and Society: The International Journal of Business History.
2007 - Christine Meisner Rosen. Environmental Sustainability in the Twenty-First Century. Environmental History.
2007 - Christine Meisner Rosen and Christopher C. Sellers. Business and the Environment. Major Problems in American Business History: Documents and Essays.
2006 - Christine Meisner Rosen. The Business-Environment Connection. In “Anniversary Forum: What’s Next for Environmental History?”.
2005 - Christine Meisner Rosen. ’Knowing’ Industrial Pollution: Nuisance Law and the Power of Tradition in a Time of Rapid Economic Change, 1840-1865. Environmental History.
2003 - Christine Meisner Rosen. Industrial Ecology and the Transformation of Corporate Environmental Management: A Business Historian’s Perspective. Inventing for the Environment.
2003 - Christine Meisner Rosen. Product Recovery With Some Byte: An Overview of Management Challenges and Environmental Consequences in Reverse Manufacturing for the US Computer Industry,y. 11 Journal of Cleaner Production.
2003 - Christine Meisner Rosen, Sara Beckman, and Janet Bercovitz. The Role of Voluntary Industry Standards in Environmental Supply Chain Management: An Institutional Economics Perspective. 6 Journal of Industrial Ecology.
2002
At Haas since 1983
1992 – present, Associate Professor, Haas School of Business
2010 – present, Associate Director, Berkeley Center for Green Chemistry
2006 – 2011, Director, American Studies Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Major, L&S.
1983 – 1992, Assistant Professor, Business and Public Policy, Haas School of Business
1983 – Lecturer, Legal Studies Program, UC Berkeley
1982 – 1983, Lecturer, Business and Public Policy, Haas School of Business
1982 – Lecturer, Department of History, UC Berkeley
1979 – Lecturer, Department of City and Regional Planning, UC Berkeley
1976 – 1977, Instructor, Department of History, Princeton University
- 2001 – present, Editorial Board Member, Environmental History
- 2002 – present, Editorial Board Member, California Management Review
- Ad Hoc Reviewer (Journals): Business History Review, Enterprise and Society, Environmental History Review, Economic History Review, Journal of Industrial Ecology, Journal of Cleaner Production, California Management Review
- Ad Hoc Reviewer (Books): Yale University Press, Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, University of Pittsburgh Press
- Member, Business History Conference (BHC)
- Member, American Society for Environmental History (ASEH)
- Member, Society for the History of Technology, American Society for Legal History (SHOT)
Visiting Scholar
Institute of Urban and Regional Development, UC Berkeley
Abel Wolman Award of the American Public Works Association
Awarded for The Limits of Power: Great Fires and the Process of City Growth in America, 1987
Honorable mention, John Hope Franklin Award of the American Studies Association
Awarded for The Limits of Power: Great Fires and the Process of City Growth in America, 1987
- What does a Biden administration mean for businesses, KPCC Airtalk, 11/11/2020
- COVID-19 triggers dip in carbon emissions and pollution, Engineering.com, 04/01/2020
- Energy and Civilization, UGBA 193B – L&S 126
with James Rector and Ahmed Badruzzaman
2020 – present - UC Berkeley Big Ideas Course Program, 2016 – 2019
- History of American Business, UGBA 172, AS C172
1999 – present - Green Chemistry: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Sustainability, Chem – SPH – ESPM – Eng 234
Spring 2011, 2013, 2014 - Ethics and Decision Making in Green Product Design: Business, Science and Policy Perspectives, ESPM 290 – MBA 296.1A
Spring 2012 - Designing Sustainable Materials and Products: Problem Solving for Society and the Environment, ESPM 290 – MBA 290
Spring 2015 - Energy, Sustainability, and Business Innovation, MBA 290 – Eng 298 – Info 290
with Drew Isaacs
2007- 2009