Join Sustainable Business Pioneers (from SustainAbility, Autodesk, Dow, Levis) + Leading Academics (from MIT, Harvard, UC Berkeley) at ARCS Forum April 29th at Haas Business School

You don’t want to miss this exciting day filled with insightful dialogue between sustainable business leaders doing the work and academics who study it! 

 On April 29th, join corporate sustainability and academic leaders such as Mark Lee (SustainAbility),  Peter Senge (MIT Sloan), Michael Kobori (Levi Strauss) and Emma Stewart (Autodesk) for a lively one-day Forum, bridging corporate responsibility in-practice with the latest academic research on models for driving sustainability.   The Center for Responsible Business (CRB) and the Alliance for Research on Corporate Sustainability (ARCS) are hosting the Forum as a lead-up to the annual academic conference.

Register today so you don’t miss out on a practical and engaging agenda that includes the following sessions:

• Sustainability veteran Mark Lee (SustainAbility) kicks off the morning session with an overview of emerging sustainability trends, based on the annual GlobeScan /SustainAbility survey, which takes the pulse of the most influential thought leaders in the sustainability arena from over sixty countries.

• Michael Hiscox (Harvard) and Dara O’Rourke (UC Berkeley, GoodGuide) discuss and debate new ways of interacting with customers to change consumer purchase/use behavior and strategies for end-of-life recovery with Michael Kobori (Levi Strauss) and Mary Jo Cook (Fair Trade USA).

• Ecosystem-market experts Chris Costello (Bren School, UC Santa Barbara), Andy King (Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth) and Adam Davis (Ecosystem Investment Partners) explore the opportunities, barriers and implications of natural capital markets.

• The final session of the day includes an all-star lineup of both corporate and academic organizational change experts.  Peter Senge (MIT Sloan) and sustainable business leaders from Autodesk, SAP and Clif Bar will identify the most effective approaches to driving sustainability from within.

• The day will culminate with a dinner to close the Forum and open the two-day Research Conference.  Dean Rich Lyons (Haas School of Business) will introduce Neil Hawkins (Dow Chemical Company) and Glenn Prickett (The Nature Conservancy), who will hold an engaging dialogue on their collaborative experiment to incorporate the value of nature into business decisions.

Register HERE.  Click HERE for the current Forum schedule.

Following the Forum, the full Research Conference will dive even deeper into many cutting-edge issues.  Read on to learn more about the conference.

Research Conference, April 30 and May 1, 2013

As part of ARCS’s mission to foster first-rate research and build the community of scholars in the corporate sustainability domain, it holds an annual research conference designed to bring together scholars interested in corporate sustainability strategy and management.

As part of ARCS’s mission to foster first-rate research and build the community of scholars in the corporate sustainability domain, it holds an annual research conference designed to bring together scholars interested in corporate sustainability strategy and management.

Following the Forum, attend the conference to dig even deeper into a wide range of research perspectives and methodologies.  Sessions will include:

• A Participatory Approach To Stakeholder Engagement: Defining a Hierarchy Of Strategic Action:  Lite Nartey, Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina; Sinziana Dorobantu, Stern School of Business, NYU; Witold Henisz, The Wharton School, U of Pennsylvania.

• Pay for Performance:  The Effect of Incentive Provision on Carbon Emissions:  George Serafeim, Harvard Business School; Robert Eccles, Harvard Business School; Loannis Loannou, London Business School; Shelley Xin Li, Harvard Business School.

• Panel Discussion:  Research Collaborations on Corporate Sustainability:  Michael Toffel, ARCS Dataverse, ARCS; Maurizio Zollo, Global Organizational Learning and Development Network (GOLDEN);  Tima Bansal, Network for Business Sustainability.

• Does Corporate Social Responsibility Lead to Superior Financial Performance? A Regression Discontinuity Approach:  Carolyn Flammer, Sloan School of Management, MIT.

Other papers to be presented draw from economics, political science and strategic management on a range of topics:  business/government interactions, stakeholder relationships, voluntary disclosures, sustainable operations and sustainable finance.

Click HERE for the current Research Conference schedule.

Register HERE.