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Sustainability 

Centres Workshop 

London Ontario Canada • April 16-18 guide 

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sustainability 

centres

Sustainability Centres 

4 The Academy for Business in Society (EABIS) 

5 Auckland University of Technology, Sustainability Research Cluster (SRC) 

6 Audencia Nantes School of Management, Institute for Global Responsibility and Entrepreneurship (IRGE) 

7 Bocconi University, Center for Research in Organization and Management (CROMA) 

9 China Europe International Business School, 

Siemens Centre for Sustainability and Supply Chain Management 

10 Concordia University, David O’Brien Centre for Sustainable Enterprise (DOCSE) 

12 Cornell University, Center for Sustainable Global Entreprise (CSGE) 

13 Dartmouth College, Allwin Initiative for Corporate Citizenship 

14 École nationale supérieure des mines de Saint-Étienne, 

Sustainable Performance, Innovation and Change in Enterprise (SPICE) 

15 Emerging Markets ESG 

16 Erasmus University, Greening RSM (GRSM) 

17 Harvard University, Business and Environment Initiative (BEI) 

19 HEC Montréal, Interdisciplinary Research Group in Sustainable Development (GRIDD) 

20 Loyola Marymount University, Sustainability and Urban Ecology Center 

21 McGill University, Marcel Desautels Institute for Integrated Management (MDIIM) 

23 Narotama University, Centre for Sustainability and Business Innovation Studies 

25 North-West University, Bench Marks Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) 

27 Northwestern University, Ford Center for Global Citizenship 

28 San Francisco State University, Center for Ethical and Sustainable Business (CESB) 

29 São Paulo Business School (EAESP), Centre for Sustainability Studies (GVces) 

30 Tecnológico de Monterrey, Centre for Sustainability and Responsibility (CSR) 

32 UC Berkeley, Center for Responsible Business 

33 Université du Québec à Montréal, Social Responsibility and Sustainable Development Research Chair 

34 University of Amsterdam Business School (ABS) & Partnership Resource Centre (PRC) 

35 University of British Columbia, ISIS Research Center 

36 University of Calgary, Strategy and Global Management Area (SGMA) 

37 University of Capetown, the Bertha Centre for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship 

38 University of Granada, ISDE - Innovation, Sustainability, and Development - Research Group 

39 University of Guelph, Sustainable Commerce @ Guelph 

40 University of Lethbridge, Sustainable Growth and Resilience Building 

41 University of Massachusetts, Center for Sustainable Enterprise and Regional Competitiveness 

42 University of Michigan, Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise 

44 University of Nottingham, International Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility (ICCSR) 

45 University of Ottawa, Sustainability Centre 

46 University of St. Gallen, oikos 

47 University of Stellenbosch Business School, Centre for Corporate Governance in Africa 

49 University of Waterloo School of Environment, Enterprise and Development (SEED) 

50 University of Victoria, Centre for Social and Sustainable Innovation 

51 University of Virginia, Darden School of Business 

53 University of Virginia, Alliance for Research on Corporate Sustainability (ARCS) 

54 Wilfrid Laurier University, CMA Centre for Business & Sustainability 

55 World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) 

56 Western University, Building Sustainable Value Research Centre 

58 Western University, Network for Business Sustainability (NBS) 

59 Centre for Resettlement, Rehabilitation and Corporate Social Responsibility (CRRCSR), 

Xavier Institute of Management 

62 York University, Centre of Excellence in Responsible Business (COERB) 

Guide to Sustainability Centres 3

The Academy for Business in Society (EABIS) 

Brussels, Belgium 

Mollie Painter Morland (PhD) currently serves as the Academic Director of EABIS. 

Mollie is a tenured Associate Professor in Business Ethics at De Paul University in 

Chicago and Associate Director of DePaul’s Institute for Business and Professional 

Ethics. Mollie is also a visiting professor in France at ESCP Europe (Paris), IAE (Aixen-Provence) 

and EDHEC (Lille). She is the author and co-editor of a number of 

books, like “Business Ethics as Practice: Ethics as the Everyday Business of Business 

”(Cambridge University Press, 2008) and “Leadership, Gender and Organization”, 

co-edited with Patricia Werhane (Springer, 2011) 

Organizational Structure: 

EABIS has over 120 members and reaches 3,500+ businesses through affiliated networks. Gilbert Lenssen 

is President and Chair of the Management Board, and Viscount Davignon Chairs the Supervisory Board. The 

governance system also includes a General Assembly, as well as Academic and Business Network Boards. The 

coordination office in Brussels is at the centre of EABIS activities, led by the Director General, Simon Pickard. The 

Director General is supported by two full-time directors, four full-time staff members, one part-time staff-member, 

two part-time regional directors, two part-time associate research directors and one research program manager. 

Mission: 

The Academy for Business in Society is a unique global network of leading business schools, companies and 

thought leadership institutions, committed to mainstreaming sustainable business enterprise in business research, 

policy research, management education, executive learning and development. 

Main Activities: 

EABIS is a reference point for organizations seeking access to leading edge thinking and practice in corporate 

responsibility, sustainability and governance. EABIS connects academics, corporate members and thought leaders 

by organizing events such as conferences, workshops, or webinars and coordinating inter-institutional research 

projects. The outputs of these initiatives include books, special issues of journals, textbooks, case material, 

practitioner handbooks, newsletters and teaching materials. EABIS actively drives the integration of sustainability in 

management curriculums and executive education. It also works actively towards the mainstreaming of sustainability 

within corporate practice and informing policy development. 

www.eabis.org/ 


Sustainability Research Cluster (SRC), 

Auckland University of Technology 

Auckland, New Zealand 

Dr. Helen Tregidga, a Senior Lecturer at Auckland University of Technology, is co-leader 

of the Sustainability Research Cluster (SRC). Dr. Tregidga’s research interests relate to 

the interface of business, society and the natural environment. Her specific expertise is in 

corporate “sustainability” reporting and discourse analysis. Her key focus is in questioning 

whether sustainability reporting enhances society’s pursuit of sustainability. Currently 

she is working on an externally funded project, which extends her previous work on the 

analysis of corporate environmental discourse to that of social movement organizations 

who oppose corporations on environmental issues. Helen contributes to curriculum 

and teaching on sustainable enterprise and is a judge of the local/national Sustainable 

Business Awards. 


The SRC is led by a steering committee, currently Dr. Helen Tregidga (Accounting) and Vernon Rive (Law). Members 

of the SRC are drawn from across the university and membership currently consists of 35 academics and PhD 

candidates. 

Mission: 

“Researchers across Auckland University of Technology engaging in high quality sustainability-related research which 

is interdisciplinary, cross-faculty, and externally funded”. To achieve this mission the cluster has three aims: 1) to 

increase sustainability-related research activity 2) to enhance reputation for sustainability-related research and 3) to 

ensure research activity is sustainable. 


The SRC is focused on research and the facilitation of sustainability-related research across the university. Activities 

undertaken are therefore directed towards networking, information sharing and establishing relationships with policy 

bodies and industry to ensure research is connected and influential. 

Activities include, but are not limited to: 

• Holding regular networking events for both staff and postgraduate students. Informal networking is seen as 

essential to encourage discussions on complex and interdisciplinary issues and allows members to identify 

possible collaborative research opportunities and partners. 

• Conducting regular seminars or workshops with academic and or industry/policy appeal and relevance. These 

seminars provide opportunities for cluster members to share their own research with others, and also for 

members to benefit from international visitors or local policy/industry representatives. 

• Acting as a distributor of information. Many events occur across the university and the wider community which 

are of interest to sustainability researchers. The SRC maintains an internal website and email service which 

informs members of upcoming events. 

In addition to these activities, and as a growing research group, the SRC is currently developing two areas. The 

first is building on our appeal and value to postgraduate students who we recognize as important sources of new 

ideas and energy. The second is developing our online presence. This will enable us to improve on our current 

communication activities and expand these to include online discussions and links to relevant materials. 

www.aut.ac.nz/study-at-aut/study-areas/business/research/research-centres/sustainability-research 


Institute for Global Responsibility and Entrepreneurship 

(IRGE), Audencia Nantes School of Management 

Nantes, France 

André Sobczak is professor and associate dean for research at Audencia Nantes 

School of Management where he has founded the Institute for Global Responsibility 

and Entrepreneurship. His interest in relations between business and society has 

resulted in various publications in academic journals such as the Journal of Business 

Ethics, Business Ethics Quarterly or Business and Society as well as a textbook on the 

management of global responsibility. In 2007, he received the European Faculty Pioneer 

Award from the Aspen Institute and the European Academy for Business in Society, in the 

‘‘European Rising Star’’ category, for his work on the development of the notion of global 

responsibility. 


IRGE’s executive director is André Sobczak, its two academic directors are Julie Bayle-Cordier and Claire 

Champenois and its managing director is Aline Polipowski. Furthermore, IRGE relies on the staff of Audencia’s 

research office. 

Mission: 

IRGE’s mission is to promote responsible management by embedding the principles of corporate social responsibility 

and sustainability in all activities of Audencia: research, education, stakeholder dialogue and the school’s internal 

management. 


In the field of research, IRGE contributes to the development of academic publications in the field of Global 

Responsibility by Audencia’s faculty. With this aim, it organizes regular research workshops or conferences in order to 

give faculty members the opportunity to exchange with their colleagues and favour co-operations. Several doctoral 

students are currently working within IRGE. 

In the field of teaching, IRGE prepares Audencia’s students to integrate economic, social and environmental issues in 

their strategies, decisions and operations as future managers by deploying three teaching strategies: 

(1) Mandatory courses on global responsibility in all programs (2) Optional courses on global responsibility (3) 

Mainstreaming global responsibility in all disciplines. 

IRGE works closely with companies and other stakeholders committed to the principles of global responsibility. 

It organizes regular roundtables for local managers and other stakeholders to disseminate newest results from 

research. In 2008, IRGE launched a collection of global responsibility booklets to share innovative practices analyzed 

by faculty and students of Audencia. 

Finally, IRGE manages the strategic partnership concluded between Audencia and WWF-France that defines 

concrete actions aiming at reducing the school’s environmental footprint. 

www.audencia.com/research/institute/instituteforglobalresponsibilityandentrepreneurship/ 


Center for Research in Organization and Management 

(CROMA), Bocconi University 

Milan, Italy 

Maurizio Zollo is the Dean’s Chaired Professor in Corporate Strategy and Sustainability 

at the Management and Technology department of Bocconi University and director of 

the Center for Research in Organization and Management (CROMA). He also has a parttime 

chair appointment at the Vienna School of Economics and Business (WU), Strategy 

and Innovation department. He is currently president elect of the European Academy 

of Management (EURAM), after having served as editor of the European Management 

Review. His research work aims to understand how business organizations evolve and 

managers can guide evolutionary processes through the combined use of strategic 

initiatives, socialization processes and knowledge management techniques. It thus focuses 

on the management of corporate development processes, from strategy implementation 

(acquisitions and strategic alliances) to organizational learning and corporate sustainability 

practices. 


The Center for Research on Organization and Management (CROMA) was created in June 2008 by a group of 15 

scholars in the Management Department of Bocconi University, all internationally recognized for their contributions in 

their areas of research activity. 

Mission: 

CROMA was founded to be a reference point for cutting-edge, multi-disciplinary and collaborative research in 

organization and management. In addition to seeking research breakthroughs, it is organized to provide corporate 

managers with novel concepts, proven analytical tools and new perspectives to transform the challenges of an 

increasingly globalized economic and social context into sustainable growth opportunities. 


The centre aims to conduct large-scale, collaborative and multi-disciplinary research focused on a small set of 

fundamental managerial issues, with the explicit objective to influence in a significant way both the academic debate 

and management practice. 

The areas of expertise and interest of CROMA researchers span across several divisions of the Academy of 

Management as well as operations research. The most important ones are: 

• Competitive and corporate strategy 

• Organization theory and design 

• Sustainability 

• International management 

• Entrepreneurship 

• Operations and innovation management 

At the same time, CROMA researchers are committed to engage in collaborative research focused on crossdisciplinary 

themes which address fundamental managerial issues. 

The core of CROMA’s activities consists of a small set of large-scale, international, collaborative and multi-disciplinary 

research programs selected, with the explicit objective to influence in a significant way both the academic debate and 

management practice. The themes emerged as central to the research interests and competencies are: 

• The micro-foundations of strategic decision-making and organizational behaviour, including the cognitive, 

emotional and identity traits of individuals 

• The macro-foundations of organizations: the role of business in society, sustainable development and firm vs. 

institutional governance 


• The development of creative insight, related to the founding of novel ventures as well as the generation of 

innovative ideas and of strategically relevant intuitions 

• The management of organizational knowledge, the enhancement of learning processes and the development 

of human capital 

• The management of relationships and networks, the dynamics of reputation and the development of social 

capital 

• The management of growth initiatives and corporate development processes, the limits of corporate growth 

and its long-term sustainability 

• The management of deliberate and evolutionary change, of adaptation processes, and the achievement of 

sustainability in economic, environmental and social impacts 

www.croma.unibocconi.it 


Siemens Centre for Sustainability and Supply Chain 

Management, China Europe International Business School 

Shanghai, P.R. China 

Thomas Callarman is Professor of Operations Management and Director of the Siemens 

Centre for Sustainability and Supply Chain Management and the CEIBS Centre for Automotive 

Research at the China Europe International Business School in Shanghai, China. He spent 

the previous 25 years at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona, USA where he was 

Associate Professor of Supply Chain Management and held several administrative positions. 

His research interests are in supply chain management, especially in supply management and 

manufacturing. His research is currently focused on the automobile industry in China and on 

sustainability in supply chains, especially in China. 


The centre consists of a director, an administrative assistant, two full-time research assistants 

and affiliated faculty. The affiliated faculty can come from CEIBS or any other institution, 

depending on the research needs. 

Mission: 

The overarching goal of the centre is to build an entity that conducts academic research and education activities in line 

with other departments of the school. The objectives of the centre are: 

1. To increase the visibility of sustainability and supply chain management toward CEIBS students, Siemens 

employees and society at large 

2. To integrate sustainability as part of the MBA curriculum 

3. To create and disseminate knowledge related to sustainability and supply chain management through research 

and teaching 


• Knowledge Creation (Research and Development): 

The centre will develop a team of researchers who will work closely with colleagues within the school and with 

research centres and networks in China and around the world. Cooperation, partnering and networking will 

guarantee access to global state-of-the-art knowledge on issues constituted by the centre’s research agenda. 

The centre will develop teaching materials including cases, multi-media packages, technical notes or papers 

written for MBA or EMBA participants or for executive education in general. 

• Knowledge Transfer (Education and Training): 

Knowledge transfer will take place primarily through education and training by offering courses to existing CEIBS, 

MBA and EMBA programmes, by expanding School offerings in EDP, and by designing courses specifically for 

the members. The centre will contribute to existing MBA and EMBA programs by enriching courses already 

offered and/or by developing courses with the aim to offer sustainability as an integral part of existing curricula 

• Knowledge Sharing (Conferences and Networking): 

The centre will share its knowledge through the organization of at least one conference or workshop per year, as 

well as participation at relevant external academic and industry associations. The value of such activities should 

be highly acknowledged as successful empirical research in business administration hinges on good industry 

partnerships. Such relationships are likely to create visibility and ultimately serve as a source for further funding. 

• Knowledge Dissemination (Publications and Website): 

This activity aims at a broader diffusion of the centre’s output, as to enhance its influence beyond the limits of 

its physical location and contribute to its visibility beyond China and Europe, among the many think tanks and 

research centres active around the world. 

Furthermore, the centre will share its production on its website. Another objective of the website is to serve as an online 

research portal for scholars in the sustainability and SCM fields. 

www.ceibs.edu/siemens/ 


David O’Brien Centre for Sustainable Enterprise (DOCSE), 

John Molson School of Business, Concordia University 

Montreal, Quebec, Canada 

Andrew Ross is a Program Coordinator at the David O’Brien Centre for Sustainable 

Enterprise, where he manages multiple programs and projects including the Sustainable 

Investment Professional Certification (SIPC) and the Sustainable Internship Program (SIP). 

Ross has a Master’s of Science (MSc) degree in Geography & Environmental Studies 

from Concordia University, where his research focus was on climate change and climate 

modeling. Sustainability is at the core of his interests now, particularly in the business 

world. He believes there is a serious urgency towards climate change and considers 

sustainability to be an opportunity for competitive advantage for businesses around the 

world. 


The David O’Brien Centre is directed by Dr. Paul Shrivastava and has two full-time staff members. There are over a 

dozen research associates (professors and grad students) working closely on sustainability issues within DOCSE. In 

addition, the centre works with the practitioners and professionals to help embed sustainability into organizations. 

Mission: 

The mission of the David O’Brien Centre for Sustainable Enterprise (DOCSE) is to be the leader in developing 

business practices that support corporate social responsibility, environmental health and safety, environmental 

management, community, and greening activities in a holistic and systemic way. 

The centre focuses its efforts on guiding organizations toward holistic sustainable strategies that are rooted in 

innovation and enterprise development. 

DOCSE has three main goals: 

1. Advancing scholarly research and developing practical solutions for creating sustainable enterprises 

2. Integrating sustainability into teaching, learning and student activities 

3. Outreach initiatives to embed sustainability in organizations and communities 

It accomplishes these goals through three over-arching programs: 

1. Research on sustainable enterprise 

2. Curriculum and student support 

3. Outreach to organizations 


Research: DOCSE supports research, training and outreach initiatives that will assist organizations in becoming 

sustainable. DOCSE’s research agenda includes design and development of sustainable enterprise, organizational 

responses to global climate change, corporate social responsibility and performance, environmental management 

systems, management of environmental and technological crises, psychological, social and cultural change towards 

sustainability, and ecopreneurship. These outlined sustainability initiatives are encouraged among our faculty and 

students as proactive measures to create business approaches that incorporate sustainability. In other words, 

DOCSE assists organizations in understanding and developing systemic and integrated sustainability strategies. 

Courses and Curriculum: With the help of faculty interested in sustainability, DOCSE has developed and continues 

to develop themed new courses on sustainability, sustainable investing, online courses on sustainable management 

and MBA courses on global climate change. These courses give our students an opportunity to gain some expertise 

in areas related to sustainable enterprise. 


The Sustainable Investment Professional Certification (SIPC): DOCSE in cooperation with Finance and Sustainability 

Initiative Montreal has created the Sustainable Investment Professional Certification Program (SIPC). This program 

offers basic sustainability training to business professionals with 70 to 80 hours of self-study curriculum material, 

online study guidance, certification testing, culminating in the Sustainable Investment Professional Certificate. SIPC is 

an approved provider program for continuing education credit from the CFA. 

Distinguished Speaker Series: Hearing leading scholars and thought leaders in any field inspires researchers to 

consider greater possibilities in their own research. To assist with the inspiration of our faculty and students, DOCSE 

has established the Distinguished Speaker Series. Our goal is to consistently bring in top scholars in all aspect of the 

field of sustainable enterprise, who are able to speak to both academic researchers and practicing managers. 

The Sustainable Internship Program: The JMSB Sustainable Internship Program is a collaborative program 

developed by the David O’Brien Centre for Sustainable Enterprise (DOCSE) and the JMSB Career Management 

Services (CMS).The objective of the JMSB Sustainable Internship Program is to give undergraduate and graduate 

students at the John Molson School of Business the opportunity to gain valuable and related hands-on experience 

within the domain of sustainability. The internship program also provides valuable student support for corporations 

seeking to make the world a better place. 

http://johnmolson.concordia.ca/en/faculty-research/research-centres/david-obrien-centre-for-sustainable-enterprise 


Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise (CSGE), 

Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, 

Cornell University 

Ithaca, New York, USA 

Dr. Mark Milstein is Director of the Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise and Senior 

Lecturer of Management & Organizations at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School 

of Management at Cornell University. He teaches, conducts research, and is a frequent 

speaker on the topics of strategy, organizational change and innovation related to business 

and sustainability. As an applied academic, since 2006 alone, Mark has overseen more 

than 70 sustainability consulting engagements with more than 50 different firms on a 

diverse range of topics, including renewable energy and carbon markets, life sciences and 

sustainable agriculture, health care and hospitality management, as well as finance and 

international development. Dr. Milstein’s writing has appeared in Science, FACTS, Academy 

of Management Executive, Sloan Management Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, 

Environmental Finance and Value; as well as various edited books and teaching cases. 


CSGE’s director is Mark Milstein and its associate director is Monica Touesnard. Additional staff members include 

managing director of market creation strategies (Dr. Erik Simanis), senior program manager for SGE-China (Xiaojian 

You), program coordinator (Amanda Simpson) and an acting program manager for SGE-Asia (Japan and Korea). There 

are other Johnson and Cornell faculty associated with the centre. 

Mission: 

CSGE’s mission is to train managers and business leaders who seek competitive advantage through sustainable global 

strategies. We work to ensure Cornell is world-class academic institution which produces and disseminates relevant 

knowledge for managers seeking innovative, profitable business opportunities which address global sustainability 

challenges and help transform the impacts of private enterprise on the world. 


The centre is focused on an interdisciplinary, applied agenda guided by the idea that challenges such as climate 

change, ecosystem degradation and poverty are unmet market needs which have the potential to be addressed 

by the private sector through business innovation and entrepreneurship. The centre leverages strong global alumni, 

professional and social networks; Cornell expertise in agriculture, architecture, hospitality and labor relations; as well 

as university strengths in engineering, human ecology, veterinary medicine, health care and entrepreneurship. We seek 

to address under-emphasis of the critical role of business model development, financial and capital market decision 

processes, and the institutional, economic, cultural and social components of entrepreneurship which too often hinders 

the successful incubation and establishment of new, sustainability oriented markets and enterprises. 

The centre oversees Johnson’s SGE curriculum, conducts applied research projects, and manages various programs 

and activities from mentorship of student clubs to the organization of conferences. Programs include our awardwinning, 

performance learning SGE Immersion program, launched in 2006; and the Environmental Finance & Impact 

Investing Fellows program, launched in 2011, which is part of our focus on the intersection of finance and sustainability. 

Our market creation strategies program builds on capabilities for applying business principles, engaging private 

sector networks and transferring knowledge to better align the interests of managers and business leaders who 

seek competitive advantage through sustainable global strategies with the goals of the aid community to harness the 

private sector market mechanisms as a catalyst for development. We possess extensive field experience for managing 

and directing student and professional teams that work with local developing country community and private sector 

partners to develop and implement business strategies which are run by and serve low income and at-risk populations. 

www.johnson.cornell.edu/Center-for-Sustainable-Global-Enterprise.aspx 


Allwin Initiative for Corporate Citizenship, 

Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College 

Hanover, New Hampshire, USA 

Professor Andrew King is a leading scholar of business strategy with special domain 

expertise in environmental performance and innovation. His research has been credited 

with changing both private and public policy. Dr. King has long been involved with 

institutions supporting research and teaching on business and environment. He is 

a cofounder of the Alliance for Research on Corporate Sustainability. Previously, he 

supported MIT’s Technology, Business, and Environment Program, and he founded both 

the Organization for Scholarship on Industry Self-Regulation and the Stern School’s 

Business and Environmental Program. Dr. King has received a Marvin Bower Fellowship at 

the Harvard Business School and an Aspen Institute Faculty Pioneer award. 


Allwin Initiative for Corporate Citizenship is overseen by a faculty director, executive director and an external advisory 

board. We have two associate faculty directors, faculty directors for specific programs, a program administrator and 

student leaders of special events. 

Mission: 

Established in 2001, the Allwin Initiative for Corporate Citizenship is a centre at the Tuck School of Business that 

works to ensure the changing issues at the intersection of business and society are a key component of our MBA 

education and a part of Tuck’s broader scholarly activities. 


We offer students learning inside and outside the classroom by hosting distinguished visitors, developing projects 

for academic credit, providing opportunity to make an impact locally and globally, offering financial support for 

internships and jobs in the nonprofit and public sectors, supporting new cases and courses, and enabling faculty 

research. 

www.tuck.dartmouth.edu/initiative 


Sustainable Performance, Innovation and Change in Enterprise 

(SPICE), National Institute of Science and Technology, 

École nationale supérieure des mines de Saint-Étienne 

Saint-Étienne, France 

Dr Christian Brodhag is Civil engineer and PHD in physical science, professor at Henri 

Fayol departement of National Institute of Science and Technology of Saint-Etienne in 

sustainability and social responsibility. He was Interministerial Delegate for Sustainable 

Development by French government (2004-2008), in charge of National sustainable 

development strategy. He took part to ISO 26000 elaboration and he is presently 

Coordinator of the Francophone Organizing Committee for Rio 2012. He is involved 

in the development of the French labeling scheme of higher education on sustainable 

development (CGE/CPU). Author of books and articles, including a Dictionary on 

Sustainable Development, he is conducting several research projects on sustainable 

development and corporate social responsibility implementation, and on information 

system and cognitive process developments of innovation. 


The School of Mines is attached to the Ministry in charge of industry and is thereby oriented to support industrial and 

societal change. Research activities are oriented towards large companies, SMEs and territories, at the intersection 

of technology, economic, institutional, environmental and social issues. It trains engineers who are destined to 

lead companies, especially in industry. The Henri Fayol Institute on “methods and advanced tools of industrial 

performance” is based on management, information and engineering sciences. The central theme of the SPICE 

team is analysis and implementation of innovation processes, for a global performance of organizations to meet 

sustainable development and various stakeholders’ interests. 

Mission: 

The SPICE department has training and outreach activities and is focused on action/research directed toward 

the development of tools and methods, in coherence with international standardization, and implementation of 

information systems, processes and networks of innovation. 


1. The study of social responsibility in SMEs in terms of innovation and value creation. By crossing the central 

issues identified in ISO 26000 with an approach of creating shared value, it aims to develop a tool for strategic 

thinking and prediagnosis for SMEs and an information system for sharing best practices and development 

network of innovation and stakeholders for their capitalization and dissemination. 

2. Method development, implementation and evaluation of different innovation process. Management of industrial 

engineering projects as factors of change and knowledge transfer between prime contractor and project 

manager. Territorial upward innovation and the accompanying of change in lifestyles and consumption patterns 

through the deployment of in vivo incubators of sustainable lifestyles. The Integrated Cluster of Excellence as 

mechanisms for strengthening capacity of developing countries (applied to the Energy Sector in West Africa). 

3. Valuing Human Performance in the overall context of social responsibility, and impact on the current training of 

generalist engineers. A historical approach is conducted based on the work of Henri Fayol and the evolution of 

the engineer role in the twentieth century. 

4. Transitions and business cooperation in the framework of model changes, as the transition from product to 

service (servicisation). 

www.emse.fr/en/ 


Emerging Markets ESG 

Haverhill, New Hampshire, USA 

Geoffrey Mazullo is Principal of Emerging Markets ESG, a consultancy established in 2010, 

and Adjunct Professor at the School of American Law (SAL) – Gdansk, Poland; SAL - 

Wroclaw, Poland; and SAL – Kharkiv, Ukraine. Following studies of diplomacy, economics 

and political science in Washington, DC; Krakow, Poland; Berlin and London, Mr. Mazullo 

worked as a corporate governance analyst, first with Institutional Shareholder Services 

(ISS) and later with Investor Responsibility Research Center (IRRC). In 1992 he served as 

a corporate governance advisor to the Russian Privatization Center. Thereafter, he worked 

on capital market development projects in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Moldova and 

Russia. From 2001-2009 he directed the Partners for Financial Stability (PFS) Program, a 

regional financial sector development program in Central and Eastern Europe, for which he 

designed, launched and conducted two semi-annual surveys of listed companies in Eastern 

European emerging markets: Investor Relations Online (2001-2009; 2011-) and Reporting 

on Corporate Social Responsibility (2003-2009). Since 2006 Mr. Mazullo is chair of the 

evaluation committee of the NASDAQ OMX Baltic Market Awards. 


Emerging Markets ESG undertakes consulting, research, survey and training projects for a range of clients, including 

academia, business, finance, governmental institutions, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), professional 

organizations, regulatory authorities, trade associations and training institutions. Through its website, Emerging Markets 

ESG engages with a global network. Geoffrey Mazullo has been an Adjunct Professor at the School of American Law 

(SAL) – Gdansk, Poland since 2004; the SAL – Wroclaw, Poland since 2009; and the SAL- Kharkiv, Ukraine since 2012. 

Mission: 

Emerging Markets ESG is a consultancy dedicated to the analysis, benchmarking, development and promotion of 

reporting on environmental, social and governance (ESG) indicators in emerging markets. The Emerging Markets ESG 

internet portal serves as an archive for innovative research, a depository for information about projects undertaken, a 

calendar of upcoming events and a network to brainstorm about ideas as well as exchange information. The common 

themes of all these activities are to identify best practice in ESG reporting in emerging markets and to promote the 

adoption of international standards in financial as well as extra-financial (ESG) reporting in emerging markets. 


Geoffrey Mazullo teaches corporate governance and CSR at the SAL – Gdansk; SAL – Wroclaw; and SAL - Kharkiv, 

Ukraine. In addition, he has designed and conducted the first training on socially responsible investment (SRI) in several 

European emerging markets, including Poland, Romania and Serbia. 

In November 2010 Emerging Markets ESG published the inaugural interview in its weekly expert interview series, 

“Five Questions about SRI.” Now in its second year, the goals of Five Questions about SRI are fourfold: to collect a 

catalogue of examples of SRI in practice in emerging markets; to raise awareness about SRI in emerging markets; to 

reflect on what SRI in emerging markets means to practitioners; and to enable SRI practitioners in emerging markets to 

network with peers around the world. 

Semi-annually Emerging Markets ESG publishes an Updated Database of Contacts in the Field of SRI. The most 

recent edition of the database was published on December 30, 2011. This 13th edition of the database, with current 

information as of December 30, 2011, contains 1,429 organizations and 657 conferences/events divided among the 

following 15 categories: Academia (55 institutions); Awards and Prizes (28); Companies – Listed Companies (424); 

Conferences and Events (657); Exchanges (17): Financial Institutions (196); Governmental Organizations (69); Indices 

(56); Media (78); Networks (69); Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) (232); Private-Public Partnerships (12); 

Professional and Trade Associations (77); Rating and Research (103); and Standard-Setting Organizations (13). The 

updated database includes institutions from 70 countries on six continents. 

www.emergingmarketsesg.net 


Greening RSM (GRSM), Rotterdam School of Management, 

Erasmus University 

Rotterdam, The Netherlands 

Joey Johannsen is the Project Manager Greening RSM, an employee of Rotterdam 

School of Management, Erasmus University. Joey’s 20+ years’ experience of 

project and office management is applied to driving and organizing, initiating and 

communicating sustainability projects and activities for the entire business school. 

Days involve meeting with student leaders, employees and faculty members to plan 

an effective calendar of events; collaborating with the Erasmus facilities bureau, IT, 

catering, and service teams to strategize how to most effectively reduce the campus 

environmental footprint, impact waste streams; and assure the campus lives up to 

the Grey Pinstripes rankings of being a sustainable campus. In her off-campus time, 

Joey engages in freelance photography, social media and teaches workshops in 

Contemplative Photography. 


At the apex of the greening structure is the Steering Group (SG) of Greening RSM. The aim of the SG is to set strategic 

directions and to regularly assess the progress made. The SG convenes four times a year. Since Greening RSM implies 

a variety of aspects, including teaching, research, facilities, and relations with internal and external stakeholders, the key 

decision-makers of these areas are members of the SG. Greening RSM employs a Coordinator and a Communications 

Manager (each one day/wk), a Student Assistant (10 hrs/wk), and a Project Manager (three days/wk). Volunteer 

employees and students are members of four working groups: Facilities, Communications, Teaching and Research. 

These working groups meet every six weeks to generate action plans for implementation in-between meetings. A 

Student Committee, also answerable to the Steering Group, meets every two weeks during the academic calendar. 

Mission: 

Greening RSM aims to achieve the lasting commitment of the RSM Community – academic, managerial and support 

staff, as well as present and former students of Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University – to the 

performance of environmentally sustainable business operations. 


Greening RSM is determined to make RSM a global environmental leader among business schools by: 

• infusing the possibilities of and constraints on the natural environment into the relevant disciplines of all RSM 

curricula, so as to raise awareness among students and inspire them through teaching to perform environmentally 

sustainable business operations throughout their careers 

• creating a hub to facilitate RSM researchers to perform interdisciplinary research in the field of environmental 

sustainability, so that it becomes a key area of RSM research 

• reducing the overall environmental footprint of business-relevant behaviour of the RSM Community to 

environmentally sustainable levels, in particular by minimizing the consumption of natural resources and the 

production of waste streams, as well as by maximizing the valorisation of waste produced 

• raising awareness, inspiring and stimulating the RSM Community to behave in environmentally sustainable ways 

through the communication of environmentally benign actions and RSM’s environmental performance to the 

RSM Community and external stakeholders 

We have a student body of approximately 7,500 students and our main work is to infuse environmental sustainability 

and social responsibility into the curriculum of these future business leaders. We ask students to question facts as they 

are presented, critically-assess assumptions and accept leadership roles. 

http://greeningrsm.ning.com/ 


Business and Environment Initiative (BEI), 

Harvard Business School, Harvard University 

Boston, Massachusetts, USA 

Ron Peracchio is the founding Director of the Business and Environment Initiative at 

Harvard Business School, having assumed his role in September 2010. He joined HBS in 

1995 and has served as Co-Director of Student and Academic Services and Associate 

Director and Acting Director of MBA Career Services. Ron was also the Director of 

Career Services and Alumni Relations at Boston College’s Carroll Graduate School of 

Management. In addition to his academic experience, he has held several corporate 

positions including Staffing Manager for Lucent Software Products Group, Consultant for 

Accenture, and Airframe Design Engineer for United Technologies Corporation’s Sikorsky 

Aircraft. Ron earned an MBA degree from Boston College and a B.S. in Mechanical 

Engineering from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. 


BEI’s faculty chairs are Professors Rebecca Henderson and Forest Reinhardt. The director is Ron Peracchio and 

Brittany Shea recently joined the team serving as coordinator. There are more than 60 HBS faculty members in the 

BEI interest group; about 20 of them are actively involved. There are more than 230 MBA students in the Energy and 

Environment Club and several related Executive Education Programs. 

Mission: 

The Business and Environment Initiative at Harvard Business School seeks to deepen our collective understanding 

of the environmental challenges confronting business leaders and to help them design effective solutions. We aspire 

to help leaders create the economic and political institutions that will enable firms and societies to thrive while 

maintaining the physical and biological systems on which they ultimately depend, and support them in putting into 

place the organizations that will translate this understanding into practice. 


Research, Course Development and Curricular Innovation 

• Support faculty in developing innovative courses, cases, books, teaching notes and other materials. Identify 

and fill important conceptual gaps and opportunities in both the MBA and Executive Education curriculum and 

deliver outstanding educational programs. 

• Host BEI faculty research seminar series to enhance research across disciplinary boundaries and engage a 

wide group of faculty in exploring areas in which there are significant environmental implications for business 

practice 

• Sponsor academic research conferences 

• Create course modules for Harvard Business School Publishing related to business and the environment to 

promote case usage 

MBA Program 

• Support Admissions in attracting the strongest MBA students interested in business and the environment by 

participating in outreach and yield activities 

• Partner with Career and Professional Development to deliver comprehensive educational career programming 

designed for students interested in business and the environment. Enhance efforts to provide summer and 

permanent environmental job opportunities for current students. 

• Partner with the student Energy and Environment Club to host highly respected practitioners and/or academic 

speakers 


Executive Education 

• Support focused Executive Education offerings related to business and the environment and include 

environmental content in custom programs and comprehensive general management programs 

Alumni Engagement 

• Capitalize on Harvard Business School’s convening power to attract thought leaders who further environmental 

business practices by working with External Relations to host alumni conferences, speakers, and receptions 

• Partner with HBS Green Business Alumni Association to create a mentorship program which connects alumni 

with current MBA students 

• Support External Relations in their alumni fundraising efforts related to BEI 

Global Community 

• Work with other Harvard Schools and global universities, deepen our understanding of their related activities, 

share our work and seek high-leverage opportunities to collaborate 

• Support Harvard Business School and Harvard University’s campus sustainability efforts 

• Maintain an active and effective web presence and incorporate messages within school-wide communication 

vehicles. Publicize HBS’s environmental research agenda and activities. 

http://www.hbs.edu/environment/ 


Groupe de Recherche Interdisciplinaire en Développement 

Durable (GRIDD), Interdisciplinary Research Group in 

Sustainable Development, HEC Montréal 

Montréal, Québec, Canada 

Luciano Barin Cruz is an assistant professor at HEC Montréal. He holds a PhD from 

Jean Moulin Lyon 3 University. He teaches courses on corporate social responsibility 

and sustainable development in the Bachelor, MBA and Master degrees. His main 

research interests are corporate social responsibility, sustainable development and 

social enterprises. His work has already been published at Journal of Business Ethics, 

Management Decision, M@n@gement, Learning Organization and others. 


Under the direction of Marlei Pozzebon and Pierre-Olivier Pineau, GRIDD-HEC is composed by professors from 

five different departments (Management, Management Science, International Business, Applied Economy and 

Accounting). Their research projects are grouped in three strategic research axes: energy and development; 

organizational performance and sustainable development; information technology and sustainable development. 

GRIDD-HEC’s activities result in scientific publications; media interventions and knowledge transfer (seminars and 

conferences as well as executive education). 

Mission: 

• To develop theoretical and applied knowledge on sustainable development management and corporate social 

responsibility 

• To be a platform for HEC Montréal researchers interested in the topics of sustainable development and 

corporate social responsibility 

• To be a platform for managers, researchers and students interested in innovative solutions for a transition 

towards a sustainable society 


• Organization of research seminars and conferences 

• Participation in research grants application in the local, national and international levels 

• Publication of a working paper collection 

• Provider of scholarships to MSc and PhD students 

http://expertise.hec.ca/gridd/ 


Loyola Marymount University 

Los Angeles, California, USA 

Ivan Montiel is an Assistant Professor of Corporate Sustainability at Loyola 

Marymount University. Prior to joining the LMU faculty, Ivan taught at The 

University of Texas and California State University. His research interests include 

how organizations can design socially responsible and sustainable strategies 

while remaining competitive. His research has been published in Strategic 

Management Journal, Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, Journal 

of Business Ethics, Policy Studies Journal, Business & Society and Organization 

& Environment. Ivan is a member of the Academy of Management and the 

International Association for Business & Society. 


Our university has a multidisciplinary team of faculty, staff and students, “The Environmental Stewardship 

and Sustainability Committee” where issues of campus sustainability such as environmental footprint, 

waste management and renewable energy supply are discussed. Our goal is to learn more from other 

universities and research centres with more experience on the matter as well as establish potential 

research and teaching 

collaborations with centres worldwide. 

Mission: 

Loyola Marymount University is currently working towards the creation of a Sustainability and Urban 

Ecology Center. The goal for the centre is to bring together scholars from different disciplines such as 

engineering, biology, political sciences or business to discuss and share knowledge on sustainability 

issues in large megacities such as Los Angeles. 


The College of Business Administration emphasizes corporate sustainability education both at the 

undergraduate and MBA levels. 

At the undergraduate level, we are currently offering a course elective on Corporate Sustainability where 

students work with local companies such as Malibu Compost, Gelson’s Markets and the Green Truck 

to help them evaluate their environmental and sustainability programs. This “consulting project” with real 

companies has proven to be very effective in teaching and useful for the companies we partner with, 

a win-win experiential learning process. In Fall 2012, we will also offer a new course on values, ethics 

and sustainability that aims to bring together the disciplines of business ethics, managerial values and 

leadership (micro individual aspects of business) with sustainability strategies (the macro organizational 

aspects of business). 

We are also in the process of launching a Global Sustainability and Social Responsibility program in Bonn, 

Germany where students will spend six weeks over summer to learn more about global sustainability 

issues and the role of businesses in solving these challenges. At the MBA level, we currently offer an 

elective course on environmental strategy. This course invites local companies with a sustainability 

mission to interact with our MBA students. The college is also in the process of revising the MBA 

curriculum to include a one-unit course on corporate sustainability. Our MBA students have established 

their own Net Impact chapter and 

organize events with local organizations and companies to share ideas around becoming more 

sustainable in Los Angeles. 


Marcel Desautels Institute for Integrated Management 

(MDIIM), Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University 


Dr. Steve Maguire was appointed as the inaugural Director of the Marcel Desautels 

Institute for Integrated Management in August 2011. He holds the Desautels Chair in 

Integrated Management; is an Associate Professor of Strategy and Organization in 

McGill’s Desautels Faculty of Management; and is also an associate member of the McGill 

School of Environment. Dr. Maguire is an internationally recognized academic in the 

field of organization studies, where he has made significant contributions in the areas of 

institutional entrepreneurship and organizational discourse. Empirically, his primary research 

focus is on institutional and technological change driven by the emergence of new risks 

to human health and the environment. He is known as an expert on the precautionary 

principle and chemical risk management; and was appointed in 2007 to the Government of 

Canada Chemicals Management Plan’s “Challenge Advisory Panel” which advised Health 

Canada and Environment Canada on the screening of some 200 high-priority substances. 


The director of the MDIIM oversees all its academic activities and is assisted in overseeing its strategic and 

administrative activities by a managing director. The director is assisted in overseeing activities related to the “Social 

Well-Being” thematic priority by an integrating director, currently appointed part-time. A full-time project coordinator 

provides helps with implementing projects across each of the thematic portfolios. A Faculty Fellowship program and 

a Student Fellowship program provide opportunities for faculty members and students from Desautels and other 

McGill units to become formally affiliated with the MDIIM as Institute Fellows in order to conceptualize and implement 

teaching, research and outreach projects related to its five thematic priorities. 

Mission: 

The MDIIM’s mandate is to develop an integrated approach to management – one that breaks down disciplinary 

barriers, embraces multiple perspectives and encourages holistic, context-sensitive thinking about organizations. 

The MDIIM defines integrated management as management that constructively faces the tensions of competing 

perspectives on value in order to formulate and implement strategies that transcend rather than accept trade-offs. 

Through interdisciplinary (1) curriculum development (2) research and (3) outreach activities, the MDIIM will foster 

innovation that creates value as defined from multiple perspectives. 

The MDIIM currently focuses on five thematic priorities, two of which are “phenomenon-driven” in that they represent 

constituting phenomenon of integrated management: value(s) protection through (1) robust metrics and risk 

management; value(s) creation through (2) innovation. 

Complementing these are three “value-driven” thematic priorities in that they represent values that the MDIIM believes 

must be integrated with considerations of economic value in organizational decision-making: (3) health (4) social wellbeing 

and (5) sustainability. 

These map, loosely, to the levels of individuals (health, i.e. a life), communities (social well-being, i.e. lives) and 

broader ecosystems in which they are embedded (sustainability, i.e. life). 


The MDIIM organizes its activities around three pillars of teaching, research and outreach. 

• Teaching 

The MDIIM champions greater degrees of integration within existing Desautels programs; develops new 

integrated management courses and programs within Desautels; and partners with other McGill units to 

develop interdisciplinary courses and programs that span multiple faculties and schools. 


• Research 

The MDIIM, through its academic personnel, conducts, coordinates and facilitates compelling research 

on topics relating to its five thematic priorities. It scopes out and develops opportunities for large-scale, 

collaborative inter-faculty research programmes. 

• Outreach 

The MDIIM regularly organizes events – such as guest lectures and speaker series – around themes of 

integrated management that are of interest to McGill students, staff and faculty, as well as the general public. 

www.mcgill.ca/desautels/beyond-business/integrated-management 


Centre for Sustainability and Business Innovation Studies, 

Narotama University 

Surabaya-East Java, Indonesia 

Dr. Dewi Fitriasari is the Head of the Centre for Sustainability and Business Innovation 

Studies (CSBIS) and a lecturer at the Accounting Department of Narotama University, 

Indonesia. She has a keen interest in embodying different perspectives into sustainability 

studies and applications. Her interests have resulted in a published thesis that evaluates 

sustainability reporting from economic, social and cultural perspectives as well as working 

papers with colleagues from knowledge and communication management, strategic 

management and accounting. She received her doctoral from Aarhus University, Denmark 

in 2011. 


The Head of CSBIS is Dr. Dewi Fitriasari. CSBIS has a vice director and two secretaries. CSBIS is responsible for 

developing related education materials and research within the university. It develops strategic partnerships to 

develop sustainability education and research in Indonesia. 

Mission: 

To develop knowledge and technology that can support the principles of sustainability in terms of economy, social 

justice and the environment through the adoption of interdisciplinary research and education that is based on 

stakeholder involvement. 


The centre was launched on October 10, 2011 as a non-profit centre at Narotama University, Surabaya, Indonesia 

and is a partner of the National Center for Sustainability Reporting (NCSR) for East Java. During 2011 until today, the 

centre conducts the following activities: 

Research Activities: 

The centre is currently hosting three research activities. They are as the following: 

1. Building the concept of sustainable development education in higher education from the perspectives 

of stakeholders. The research is conducted by cooperating with the Faculty of Economics, Narotama 

University. The first draft of the research has been presented in the 23rd International Congress on Social and 

Environmental Accounting Research, University of St. Andrews, U.K. 

2. The Role of Board of Commissioners’ and Directors’ Finance and Sustainability-Related Competencies in 

Advancing Sustainability Accounting in Companies. The research is a joint research with the National Center 

for Sustainability Reporting (NCSR) Indonesia. We plan to present the first draft in an international conference. 

3. The database of safe products. The applied research is a joint research with the Association of Indonesian 

Web Industry. The purpose of developing the database is to provide information about safe materials for 

various products that small- to medium-sized Indonesian companies are interested in producing. 

Teaching Activities: 

• The centre is cooperating with the Accounting Department of the Faculty Economics, Narotama University, 

to formulate an international accounting book that incorporates sustainability principles and accounting. 

The book will be obligatory for the undergraduate students of the Accounting Department who take the 

international accounting class. 

• The centre has the MoU to develop a curriculum for sustainability education with the National Center for 

Sustainability Reporting, Indonesia. 


• The centre is applying for an internal and national funding for finishing the book in 2012. 

• The centre provides a GRI certified training for companies in Indonesia, in cooperation with the National Center 

for Sustainability Reporting (NCSR) Indonesia. 

Outreach Activities: 

• In 2011, the centre conducted a free seminar with a local community (FRESH Surabaya) and the Association 

of Indonesian Web Industry to introduce the principles of sustainability. 

• The centre is applying for internal and national outreach funding to introduce sustainability reporting for small 

to medium-sized Indonesian companies. The event will be conducted in mid-2012. 

• The centre is developing a sustainability training for Indonesian skilled workers who will be sent to foreign 

countries. The training will be conducted in 2013. An MoU is in development. 

http://csbis.narotama.ac.id/ 


Bench Marks Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility 

(CSR), North-West University 

Potchefstroom, South Africa 

Prof. Freek Cronjé is associate-professor in sociology at the Potchefstroom Campus of 

North-West University in South Africa, and was chair of the department until 2010. Since 

then, he is the director of the Bench Marks Centre for CSR at the same university, also 

at the Potchefstroom Campus. Most of his research is conducted under the “umbrella” 

of sustainable development. His specific research interests are migration studies and 

corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the mining sector. Prof. Cronjé is currently involved 

– with the Bench Marks Foundation (an international NGO based in Johannesburg) – as 

one of the lead researchers in an extensive research project on CSR and sustainability 

issues in the SADC mining environment. Except for CSR research in the mining sector 

of South Africa, the centre recently finished CSR research projects in Zambia (copper – 

2008), Botswana (diamonds – 2009) and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (gold 

– 2010 and copper – 2011). Flowing from the research work, Professor Cronjé delivered 

numerous peer reviewed articles and contributions in edited books as well as conference 

presentations (nationally and internationally). He also acts as supervisor/promoter for a 

substantial number of Masters and PhD students in the field of CSR. Prof. Cronjé is also 

currently the president of the South African Sociological Association (SASA). 


The newly established centre currently comprises of the director, prof. Cronjé, an administrative assistant, two 

full-time researchers, a research fellow, one post-doctoral fellow, and a couple of contract researchers. The Bench 

Marks Foundation (previously mentioned) is a partner in the centre. In an organizational sense, the centre is hosted 

within the Faculty of Arts. 

Mission: 

• Stimulate and conduct high-quality innovative research and training on corporate social responsibility 

• Provide the space for dialogue amongst various stakeholders, in particular government, civil society and the 

private sector 

• Create synergy between basic and applied research (“theory/policy and practice”) 

• Create a specific research focus in CSR at the Potchefstroom Campus of the North-West University in South 

Africa 

• Learn from the studied experiences of communities that are living through and experiencing actually existing 

CSR-CSI programmes and initiatives, with a view of changing it to benefiting people and the planet, contrary 

to only enhance profits 

Derived from the vision and the mission, the centre will be uniquely informed by the following guiding principles and 

approaches: 

• Seek to study the rights of citizens and corporations with the understanding that if corporations are to be 

beneficial and accountable to communities at large, they cannot enjoy more rights than citizens 

• To study the role of corporations in society and its impacts on democracy, power of citizens, organized civil 

society, the environment, the economy and the role of governments 

• To study the operations as well as the differential impacts of CSR on communities and owners of the 

corporations in an inclusive and participatory manner with all stakeholders and across disciplines and different 

economic development models 

• Conducting collaborative research with communities by centre staff, research fellows and students; this will be 

done in collaboration with external practitioner experts from within the structures of corporations, civil society, 

trade unions and communities 


• Policy and “Praxis Dialogues”: conferences, dialogues and workshops will be convened that will bring together 

leading practitioners, academics, communities, corporations, government, civil society organizations, trades 

unions and the media; the aim will be to study and deliberate on the actually existing experience of CSR, within 

the perspectives of ensuring that the values and principles of justice, democracy and informed participation 

becomes a practice and culture within corporations 

• Promoting a culture of a “learning organization” which will facilitate the creation of a participatory management 

for future generations, as well as those of today 


The centre is proud to focus in a specialized way on the core business of any university, namely research, teaching 

and community engagement. 

Research wise, the flag ship project of the centre is the SADC (Southern Africa Development Community) Mining 

Project where different developmental and sustainability issues in the mining sector in SADC are being studied and 

analyzed, for example migration, generational collaboration and acculturation, corporate social responsibility (CSR), 

corporate social investment (CSI), social entrepreneurship, governance issues, stakeholder dialogue, and power 

relations and dynamics within the SADC mining sector. 

The Bench Marks Centre for CSR is currently in the process of finalizing a substantial project through SIDA (Swedish 

International Development Agency) on specific CSR issues (supply chain and social entrepreneurship) in South Africa, 

Botswana and Namibia. The centre is also investigating collaboration opportunities within the global south; in this 

regard an Africa/India project is in the planning process. 

On teaching, the centre offers a course work Masters in Development with a CSR curriculum, as well as a PhD 

in Development with a CSR curriculum. The centre also has three accredited short courses on CSR; two more 

advanced ones and a basic course, for among others, community leaders. 

Most of the centre’s research projects also have a community engagement dimension. In this regard the focus is on 

community development, social entrepreneurship and ownership, community participation, the development of selfreliance 

and the importance of a human-centred approach towards development. 

To further and strengthen the work of the centre, solid networks and partnerships in South Africa, Africa and in the 

international arena were being established over the last few years. 

www.nwu.ac.za/content/p-fassr/Vis.html 


Ford Center for Global Citizenship, 

Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University 

Evanston, Illinois, USA 

Jean Egmon is the executive director of the Ford Business Network, a division of the 

Ford Center for Global Citizenship and a research faculty member in the Kellogg School 

of Management’s Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences department. She is 

also the president of Third Angle, Inc. Jean’s work focuses on spotting and leveraging 

interdependencies and mutual interests across business networks to spark exponential 

growth and manage risks. This means synthesizing information and motivations from 

diverse sources that enables companies and organizations to identify and meet multiple 

needs of multiple stakeholders simultaneously, thereby creating greater exponential 

growth for the whole business system, while managing obvious and blind-side risks. 

She then works with companies to design strategies, marketing approaches and 

organizational environments that create a pull for participation and investment across 

their networks in and outside their companies. 


Focus areas in research, teaching and collaborative outreach networks Include: 

Complex social systems, conflict and cooperation, crisis and reputation management, ford business network, global 

health initiative, language and politics, online democracy, political economy, values based leadership 

Mission: 

The centre draws on a diverse array of Kellogg and Northwestern faculty and researchers to investigate the role of 

business and its interaction with the social and political environment. The centre’s mission is to address – through 

research and teaching – the challenges faced by corporations that have become the main agents of global, social 

and political change. Our scholars are dedicated to an interdisciplinary approach that combines ethical, strategic and 

organizational concerns. 


• Interdisciplinary research, bringing together researchers from social psychology, ethics, organizational behavior, 

accounting, political economy, economics, management strategy, medicine and public policy 

• Teaching – MBA, custom executive education, open enrollment executive education 

• Global Health Initiative 

• Ford Business Network collaborations and Innovation Labs 

http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/research/fordcenter/ 


Center for Ethical and Sustainable Business (CESB), 

College of Business, San Francisco State University 

San Francisco, California, USA 

Dr. Murray Silverman is a co-director and founder of the Center for Ethical and Sustainable 

Business in the College of Business at San Francisco State University. He began teaching 

MBA courses in environmental sustainability in 1995, assisted in the development of 

the university undergraduate Environmental Studies program, was the initial catalyst in 

the development of the university’s first campus-wide Sustainability Committee and was 

instrumental in the development the MBA Emphasis in Sustainable Business. 

Professor Silverman has published more than 20 scholarly articles in journals such as 

Business, Strategy & the Environment, Electricity Journal, Environmental Business Journal, 

Management Review, Journal of Small Business Management and the Journal of Business 

Ethics. He is also an avid case writer, having published 10 cases in leading textbooks 

for use in strategic management, business and society, and environmental management 

courses. Two of his cases placed in the OIKOS Sustainability Case Competition. 


The CESB structure has not been finalized. Presently, we have designated three co-directors, Murray Silverman, 

Mark Starik and Tom Thomas. We have seven full-time faculty in the College of Business teaching only sustainability 

related courses. These faculty comprise our core group. 

Mission: 

Our vision is to be the S.F. Bay Area business community catalyst for ethics and for social and environmental 

sustainability. Our mission is to advance business ethics and sustainability through excellence in research, education 

and engagement with Bay Area businesses and their stakeholders. 


• Ethics Week: In the fall semester, the college focuses a full week on topics related to social, ethical and 

environmental issues. Speakers and panel discussions are scheduled and are open to students, faculty and 

the community. In addition, all faculty in the COB are asked to focus at least one class session that week on 

ethical, social or environmental topics related to their discipline (accounting, finance, marketing, etc.) 

• Annual Speakers Series: Each month during the academic year, the CESB brings to the downtown campus, 

executives from Bay Area businesses, non-profits and government to speak about their experiences on topics 

relating to business ethics and sustainability. 

• Conferences: For this spring (2012) we developed and will be hosting a conference for west coast faculty 

on the topic of benefit corporations and separately we will be hosting a conference for the Corporate 

Responsibility Officers Association. 

• Case Writing Initiative: The initiative includes a variety of efforts to promote and support the development of 

business sustainability case studies, by 1) fostering collaboration among leading sustainability case writers 

who teach at business schools in the S.F. Bay Area 2) providing incentives and support to help faculty develop 

and apply case writing skills and to publish in the area of business sustainability. 

http://cob.sfsu.edu/cob/sustainable-center/ 


Centre for Sustainability Studies (GVces), São Paulo Business 

School (EAESP), Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV) 

São Paulo, Brazil 

Renato J. Orsato is a professor of São Paulo School of Management and academic director 

of the Centre for Sustainability Studies at Getúlio Vargas Foundation (FGV) in São Paulo, 

Brazil. From 2004 to 2010 he worked as lecturer and senior research fellow at the INSEAD 

Social Innovation Centre, Fontainebleau, France, where he is currently a visiting scholar. As a 

researcher and educator, in the past 15 years he taught at MBA and Executive Programs at 

INSEAD and HEC (France), Lund University (Sweden) and University of Technology Sydney 

(Australia), and worked with public organizations and private businesses in more than 20 

countries. He is the author of Sustainability Strategies (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), finalist of 

the Academy of Management 2010 ONE Book Award, translated into Chinese, Arabic and 

Portuguese. 


The Centre (GVces) has an organizational matrix structure. There is a total of nine sustainability programs: (1) 

Sustainable Production (2) Corporate Sustainability (3) Global Sustainability (4) Sustainable Finance (5) Education and 

Sustainability (6) Local Development (7) Página 22 Magazine (8) Sustainable Consumption and (9) Innovation and 

Sustainability in the Value Chain. Additionally, there are four transversal lines of action that run in parallel to the above 

programs: (a) Education (b) Research and Publications (c) Political Articulation and (d) Mobilization and Communication. 

Mission: 

“Continuously expand the frontiers of knowledge, contributing to sustainable development within the scope of both the 

public and the private sectors.” 


GVces develops applied research, which helps the bridge-building between universities, governments, businesses and 

civil society. For instance, as a result of the study about the existing sustainability indexes, the Corporate Sustainability 

program developed the Business Sustainability Index for the Brazilian stock exchange. The program has developed the 

methodology for the Exame Magazine Sustainability Guide – an annual sustainability ranking of companies operating in 

Brazil. The Sustainable Finance program developed social and environmental standards for investment products and 

services offered by financial institutions in Brazil. Through research and engagement, the program seeks to highlight the 

role of the financial sector in fostering a green economy. 

GVces also developed action research in remote communities, such as the one of Juruti (Pará, in the Amazon 

riverbank) and Jirau (Rondônia), subjected to large-scale infrastructure projects. The Global Sustainability program 

focuses on strategies and tools that allow corporations and governments to move toward a low carbon economy. 

Among the projects are the Companies for Climate (34 member companies) and the Brazilian Program for the GHG 

Protocol. 

GVces had an important role in terms of the implementation of the GHG protocol in Brazil, as the organization 

was responsible for the adaptation of the protocol to the Brazilian national context. GVces worked with WRI in this 

endeavor, in collaboration with the Brazilian Ministry of Environment, the Brazilian Business Council for Sustainable 

Development (CEBDS), World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and 27 founding companies. 

One of the outcomes of this project included the first online tool developed by GHG Protocol Program for the 

preparation and dissemination of inventories of GHG emissions from participating companies. 

Moreover, Climate Watch is another initiative within the Global Sustainability program, promoting access to information 

on climate change in Brazil and abroad, playing a proactive role in public policymaking and in participatory processes 

for the inclusion of the issue in the national and international agenda. 

http://eaesp.fgvsp.br/en/TeachingandKnowledge/studycenters/gvces 


Centro Responsabilidad Social Empresarial (CRSE) 

[Centre for Sustainability and Responsibility (CSR)], 

Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus San Luis Potosí 

San Luis Potosí, Mexico 

Oliver Laasch is director of the Center for Sustainability and Responsibility at the 

Monterrey Institute of Technology. He also serves as an academic coordinator for the 

Masters Program in Responsible Management at Steinbeis University in Berlin. 

Oliver is co-leader of the United Nations PRME Working Group on Executive Education, 

editor of the PRME Book Collection and lead author of the first PRME textbook to be 

published. Oliver has published to mainstream responsible management in scientific 

journals such as in Business Communications Quarterly for which he serves on the 

editorial board. 

As a trainer, coach and consultant in responsible business, Oliver has collaborated with 

more than 100 businesses from small entrepreneurs to multinational corporations. He has 

taught full courses on sustainable development and leadership, social entrepreneurship, 

environmental economics, social- and cause-related marketing, sustainable innovation, 

ethics management and international norms in responsible business. 


CRSE is an independent department inside the university´s humanities, ethics and citizenship division. The centre 

is organized in a network structure grouped around the centre director, one coordinator and 10 student assistants. 

Expert collaborators from academia and practice are hired for projects. The pool of experts involved so far consists 

of approximately 30 individuals worldwide. CRSE will soon work in a new international scheme in collaboration with 

Steinbeis University, Berlin, Germany. 

Mission: 

CRSE was founded with a double purpose. The first purpose is to promote responsible business practices nationally, 

in Mexico and regionally in the state of San Luis Potosí. The second purpose is the provision of responsible business 

contents for students in order to support their moral development and to increase their international competitiveness 

in the labour market. 

A new mission has been drafted, following the centre’s shift in activities to a more global level: “Be an international 

centre of excellence in responsible management, which connects international academics, and practitioners to jointly 

excel in responsible management.” 


CRSE´s main activities can be subdivided into three main lines of action: publication, consulting and teaching. 

Publications: CRSE has been involved actively in the publication of several books, mostly related to responsible 

business in practice and to topics related to responsible management education. CRSE edits the Principles of 

Responsible Management Education (PRME) book collection and heads the development of the first PRME 

textbook. 

Consulting: CRSE has worked with small, medium and big businesses to shape their responsible management 

activities. Activities include incubation of social and environmental entrepreneurs, mentoring of managers and 

consulting for the solution of concrete responsible management challenges. CRSE offers a bi-annual “diploma 

program” which consists of 90 hours of executive education on responsible management practices. 


Teaching: CRSE offers a capstone course on responsible business, which is compulsory for bachelor students of all 

degree programs. CRSE also offers various elective subjects such as social marketing, social entrepreneurship and 

sustainable innovation. In June/July 2010, CRSE offered an international summer school in responsible management, 

with three fully accredited courses, which attracted 60 internal and external students. CRSE coordinates and 

conducts the e-learning courses of the master program in Corporate Responsibility Management of Steinbeis 

University in Berlin, which represent approximately one-third of the program’s credits. 

Future Activities: In mid-2012 the CRSE will be transferred to a new international scheme. It will focus on the 

establishment of an international network for practitioners and academics and the development of international study 

and consulting offers, in a blended offline-online scheme. In the course of this transformation, the centre will move its 

physical location to Steinbeis University Berlin, while keeping a basic affiliation with the Tecnológico de Monterrey and 

maintaining a presence in Mexico. 

https://sites.google.com/site/crsev4/announcements elcentroparaeldesarrollodelaresponsabilidadsocialempresarial 


Berkeley Center for Responsible Business, 

Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley 

Berkeley, California, USA 

Jo Mackness is Executive Director of the Center for Responsible Business (CRB) at 

the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business. Before joining the centre, Jo served as 

the Corporate Responsibility Integration Leader at Ernst & Young, where she worked 

to embed social and environmental responsibility into core firm activities. Prior to 

EY, Jo was a human capital consultant working in the US and the UK, primarily 

serving professional services and financial services firms on transactions, corporate 

governance and executive compensation issues. Jo is a Haas MBA alumna and holds 

an undergraduate degree from UCLA. Former chair of the board, Jo serves as a board 

member for Net Impact. 


Jo Mackness serves at the executive director and Kellie McElhaney serves as the faculty director. The CRB has 

a program manager, marketing manager and part-time administrative support. The centre also has an executive 

in residence (from Dow Chemical) and several associated visiting and lecturing faculty members. The CRB has 

both an Alumni Advisory Board and Senior Advisory Board (made up of leaders from the centre’s corporate 

partner firms as well as several experts in the field). 

Mission: 

To promote sustainable business leadership through the CRB’s key stakeholders: students, faculty and 

companies. 

• Students: inspire and equip future business leaders to use sustainability as a way to differentiate their 

careers and drive value in their organizations 

• Faculty: support multi-disciplinary faculty in incorporating sustainable business into their teaching and 

research 

• Companies: engage companies in developing fresh perspectives on and new approaches to sustainable 

business leadership 


CRB has received global critical acclaim — most recently in January 2011 by The Financial Times that rated 

Haas No. 2 in the world for MBA programs in corporate responsibility. Experiential learning opportunities 

including the CRB’s flagship consulting course, Strategic CSR and Projects, give students unique experience 

and the ability to influence corporate responsibility strategy and implementation with major firms such as Apple, 

Ernst & Young and Southwest Airlines. The CRB encourages students who want to delve even deeper into 

corporate responsibility efforts to apply for a CR Fellowship. The CRB brings thought leaders in corporate 

responsibility and sustainability to engage Haas students via the Peterson Series of lectures, workshops 

and innovative events. The CRB also partners with companies like Target and Levis on innovative case 

competitions. The CRB works with corporate partners (e.g. Levis, HP, Dow, Chevron, Walmart, ING) on a range 

of different activities designed to achieve new insights in the area of corporate sustainability including: student 

consulting engagements, faculty research projects, case studies and multi-stakeholder symposiums. The CRB’s 

core teaching faculty bring significant corporate expertise to deliver courses in the areas of socially responsible 

investing to sustainability metrics. 

The research faculty affiliated with CRB come from a diverse set of colleges on campus and address issues of 

environmental sustainability through the Sustainable Products and Solutions Program and Sustainable Finance 

via the Moskowitz Research Program and the Haas Socially Responsible Investment Fund. 

http://responsiblebusiness.haas.berkeley.edu/ 


Social Responsibility and Sustainable Development 

Research Chair, Université du Québec à Montréal 


Dr. Corinne Gendron is lawyer, chairholder of the Social Responsibility and Sustainable 

Development Research Chair, and professor in the Department of Strategy, Social and 

Environmental Responsibility of the École des sciences de la gestion (Université du 

Québec à Montréal). Author of a dozen books and articles, she is conducting several 

research projects on sustainable development and corporate social responsibility. She 

also acts as an expert in various organizations, companies and administrations, and she’s 

received each year as a visiting professor at numerous universities abroad. Her latest 

book, Regulation Theory and Sustainable Development: Business Leaders and Ecological 

Modernization, was published by Routledge in 2011. 


Assisted by students of graduate and postdoctoral fellows, professors and researchers of the Chair are leading 

several projects funded by large organizations to support federal and provincial research in partnership with multiple 

civil societies’ stakeholders (business, trade union groups, NGOs). 

Mission: 

The Chair’s mission is to contribute, through development and dissemination of knowledge, basic and applied 

research and training managers to build a humane economy for sustainable development. For this purpose, the 

Chair pursues three complementary objectives: research, training and outreach. 


Research revolves around three main axis. 

• Corporate Social Responsibility. This topic has been of outstanding importance in the era of economic 

globalization, while many hope it will impact large multinational firms’ actions. The Chair is interested in 

defining, shaping, providing content and institutional frameworks for corporate social responsibility. Research 

on social responsibility ultimately affects the very definition of the enterprise as a mode of social organization in 

a society for sustainable development. 

• Sustainable Development. As part of several projects, researchers of the Chair are looking at the regulation 

changes regarding the consolidation of a global framework for economic governance and the rise of 

global environmental problems. This regulatory framework is shaped by the diffusion of a new concept of 

development, sustainable development, which society’s actors are trying to implement. 

• New Social and Economic Movements. In addition, researchers are interested in new social and economic 

movements using the economy for social protests (ethical investment, consumerism, etc.) by analyzing the 

tensions between commercial imperatives and ethical objectives through these movements. 

http://www.esg.uqam.ca/en/research/description/social_responsibility.php 


University of Amsterdam Business School (ABS) and 

Partnership Resource Centre (PRC), University of Amsterdam 

Amsterdam, The Netherlands 

Ans Kolk is full professor at the University of Amsterdam Business School. Her research 

areas are in corporate social responsibility and sustainability, especially in relation to the 

strategy and management of international business firms and international policy. Specific 

topics have included climate change and energy; poverty and development; bottom of 

the pyramid and subsistence markets; partnerships; codes of conduct and non-financial 

reporting; stakeholders and governance. She has published many articles in international 

reputable journals, as well as book chapters, and books. In 2009, she received the Aspen 

Institute Faculty Pioneer European Award (Lifetime Achievement Award) (akolk@uva.nl; 

http://www.abs.uva.nl/pp/akolk). 


At the University of Amsterdam Business School, sustainability broadly defined (corporate governance, corporate 

social responsibility, environmental, social and ethical aspects of business) is integrated in the teaching and research of 

the academic departments (accounting; finance; international strategy and marketing; HRM/organizational behaviour). 

In this way it is embedded in both teaching and research programs. We participate in various (inter)national network 

organizations, inter alia the Partnership Resource Centre in the Netherlands. 

Mission: 

In general ABS aims to offer an inspiring, broadly oriented and thoroughly international academic environment where 

both staff members and students can develop their capacities to optimum effect. It seeks to emphasise an openminded 

and tolerant attitude, a strong engagement between business and society, the importance of innovation and 

entrepreneurship and, throughout, a commitment to the scientific study of the business world. Collaboration with 

relevant partners to further sustainability in business is part and parcel of this approach. 


These include research, teaching and outreach. Our research on sustainability and corporate responsibility 

encompasses people, planet and profit. Topics that are covered include business and energy/climate issues 

(innovation, emission trading, interactions with policy); consumer behaviour and sustainability/CSR; online media and 

social marketing; corporate social responsibility in international supply chains, and in the context of development; 

partnerships; green innovation and green products; sustainable entrepreneurship; environmental and social accounting 

and reporting; transparency and communication; accountability, auditing and verification; codes of ethics; corporate 

governance; the role of stakeholders, shareholders and investors; ethical leadership. 

Research output consists of academic publications but often also more managerial articles which translate into 

outreach to practice. There are frequent interactions with companies, governmental and non-governmental actors, for 

collecting data as well as discussing results, informally and formally (e.g. memberships of boards and committees). 

Research topics are embedded in teaching at the bachelor, master and executive levels. 

In addition to participation in academic networks (e.g. on the social and environmental aspects in management 

and business – SEABUS – and on transnational climate governance), ABS is also active in the academia-businessgovernment-society 

interface. For example, we organized academic conferences, at the request of the Global 

Reporting Initiative, as part of their large GRI Global Conference on Sustainability and Transparency in both 2008 and 

2010 (this conference attracts more than 1,000 participants from business, consulting, policy and society). We are also 

active in the framework of the European Academy of Business in Society in several ways. At the national level, there is 

involvement in the Partnership Resource Centre, as we have done extensive research on partnerships (a few projects 

of these in the framework of PRC), and engage in many events to spread our insights. 

http://www.abs.uva.nl/abshome/home.cfm 

http://partnershipsresourcecentre.org/ 


ISIS Research Centre, 

Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia 

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 

James Tansey is the executive director of ISIS, a research centre at the Sauder School 

of Business and is an associate professor at the University of British Columbia’s Sauder 

School of Business. James co-founded Offsetters in 2005, and currently sits as its 

CEO. Research by James covers a number of areas, including the social impacts and 

acceptability of new technologies including stem cells and biobanks. Recent research 

has focused on emerging international markets for carbon exchange, social determinants 

of health in developed countries and the governance of biotechnology and genomics in 

Canada. In 2010, James was recognized by Business in Vancouver magazine as one of 

the city’s Top 40 Under 40 and was selected as a Pacific finalist in the Clean Tech category 

at the prestigious Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year® 2010 Awards. 


Dr. James Tansey is the executive director at the ISIS Research Centre, its managing director is Joanna Buczkowska 

and the centres’ director of strategy is Chris Kantowicz. There are an additional four full-time staff each specializing 

on one of three core research themes: low carbon economy, social economy, and economic development with 

First Nations. ISIS is focused on leveraging business tools to advance social innovation and sustainability, through 

research, incubation and application. 

Mission: 

Our mission is to develop and incubate viable solutions through applied research to pressing social and 

environmental challenges facing the world. 


The ISIS team focuses on three key research areas: First Nations economic development, the low carbon economy 

and the social economy. These themes represent key priorities within the British Columbian (and global) economy, 

and leverage the expertise of the ISIS team. Over the past year we have partnered with a number of First Nations, 

including Nanwakolas Council, Gitga’at and Nisga’a. Recent projects ranged from seafood feasibility studies, energy 

opportunity assessments, tourism strategies, forest tenure opportunities,and economic development governance 

plans. We take great pride in seeing our work being used to inform and support decision-making throughout these 

communities. 

ISIS has been very active in the low carbon economy with contributions to the UBC University Sustainability Initiative 

and our Climate Intelligence Program in partnership with the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions. We are proud to 

have informed the public debate in this area and have helped translate high quality research into practice. In this area 

ISIS was involved in several innovative projects in the province including the Ecosystems Services in the Great Bear 

Rainforest, the QUEST Case Study on South East False Creek Neighbourhood Energy Utility, and the Clayoquot 

Sound First Nations: green and culturally appropriate housing. Additionally, we continued our ongoing work in the 

field of Commercial Green Real Estate focusing on the financial aspects of the industry. 

Our work in the social economy has advanced in partnership with organizations in Canada that are seeking 

to progress social sustainability, including Ashoka Canada, LIFT Partners, PLAN and the Province of BC. Our 

projects range from studies on the development of a social procurement toolkit to social cohesion and community 

development to social innovation. In addition we have contributed to initiatives such as the BC Advisory Council 

on Social Entrepreneurship, which over the past year has explored local opportunities related to social enterprise 

structures, social parameters in BC, and general growth and understanding of social innovation in the province. 

http://www.sauder.ubc.ca/isis/ 


Strategy and Global Management Area (SGMA), 

Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary 

Calgary, Alberta, Canada 

Dr. Jim Dewald is Associate Dean (Graduate Programs), Associate Professor of Strategy and 

Global Management and Academic Director of The Real Estate Education Studies Program 

(REESP). He is responsible for the MBA programs and teaches graduate-level strategy and 

leadership. Prior to pursuing an academic career, Jim held CEO positions in the real estate 

development and civil engineering industries, and is currently on the board of Boardwalk 

REIT, the Real Estate Development Institute and the West Campus Development Trust. The 

Alberta Real Estate Foundation recognized him as a “Thought Leader” in 2011, due largely 

to his standing as an industry leader in the development and promotion of sustainable 

communities. Jim’s research has focused on incumbent response to disruptive innovations, 

exploring the cognitive influences in strategic decision-making. 


The SGMA encompasses REESP, the International Resource Industries and Sustainability (IRIS), in collaboration with 

the Institute for Sustainable Energy, Environment, and Economy (ISEEE). The Chair of SGMA is Dr. Alain Verbeke, 

who is a Fellow of ISEEE. Under Dr. Verbeke’s leadership, IRIS is led by Academic Director Dr. Joseph Arvai and Dr. 

Dewald is the incoming Academic Director of REESP, a new research and teaching initiative in the funding stage. 

Combined, SGMA, ISEEE, IRIS and REESP have research, teaching and community engagement directives focused 

on issues of sustainability, ethical leadership, and corporate social responsibility. 

Mission: 

The mission of REESP is developing through an Advisory Committee, however the key contributions are targeted 

to connecting industry, faculty and students in the pursuit of research, teaching and community engagement that 

provides societal and multi-generational benefits. 

The mission of IRIS is “to create and disseminate leading-edge sustainability research through publications, teaching 

and various forms of outreach to industry and community audiences.” 

The mandate of ISEEE is “to develop cost-effective solutions to the environmental challenges of energy production 

and use.” 


ISEEE provides graduate degree programs in Energy and Environment Systems Specialization, and interdisciplinary 

research linking natural science and social science researchers from all faculties within the University of Calgary. 

ISEEE is highly active in information dissemination, including the Cenovus Distinguished Speaker Series, the ISEEE 

Expert Series, and the ISEEE Energy and Environment Systems Seminar Series. In addition, there are a series of 

formal events throughout the year. IRIS features a monthly seminar series, a PhD/graduate research program, an 

interdisciplinary Masters of Science in sustainable energy, a Global Energy and Sustainable Development (GEMS) 

MBA specialization and Executive Briefings. Under the guidance of SGMA, IRIS and ISEEE, the Haskayne School of 

Business MBA and PhD programs have excelled in developing and delivery education focused on sustainability and 

ethical leadership. 

http://haskayne.ucalgary.ca/research/research-centres/IRIS 

http://www.iseee.ca/ 


The Bertha Centre for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship, 

Graduate School of Business, University of Cape Town 

Cape Town, South Africa 

Dr. Eliada Nwosu is a Senior Lecturer at UCT’s Graduate School of Business and faculty 

member of the Bertha Centre for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the GSB. At 

the GSB she provides teaching on entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship. Nwosu’s 

research looks at the structural embeddedness of social and small-scale entrepreneurship 

in the African emerging markets – specifically South Africa – via the strategic use and 

entrepreneurial value of their social networks. Implications of her work involve innovation 

of network-based business models, entrepreneurial strategies and enabling ecosytems for 

social change as well as the identification of start-up “social” capital for emerging enterprises. 

Emerging lines of research include exploring the governance of social entrepreneurial 

networks purposed to strategically further a social movement. She currently serves on the 

Steering Committee of the African Social Entrepreneurship Network of the Western Cape and 

provides voluntary consulting to various emerging social enterprises in the Western Cape. 


The Bertha Centre is directed by Dr. Francois Bonnici and resides within the UCT Graduate School of Business, led by 

Prof Walter Baets. Its establishment is supported by the Bertha Foundation. The centre hosts seven faculty members 

from the Graduate School of Business, five MBA Bertha Scholars, several adjunct faculty members, and the continual 

involvement of researchers and practioners within and beyond the business school – both locally and internationally. 

Mission: 

The Bertha Centre aims to stimulate creative and collaborative thinking in entrepreneurs, managers and leaders to 

develop innovative and sustainable models for solving some of society’s and the planet’s toughest challenges, as well as 

instilling corporate managers with insights and skills to build better, bolder business in emerging markets. 


The Bertha Centre and affiliated faculty run a new stream on the full-time MBA program called the Social Innovation 

Lab. The Social Innovation Lab provides an immersion in social innovation thinking, which exposes participants 

to practical ways to effect positive change and asks each candidate to develop and begin to experiment with an 

innovation plan that responds to pressing societal and/or environmental challenges. It aims to foster an inherent sense 

of agency and equip candidates with a broad set of capabilities to be effective social and environmental innovators 

across all sectors of non-profit, hybrid social enterprises, business and government. The Social Innovation Lab has 

a strong action focus and provides an opportunity to integrate the components of the 3rd and 4th terms of the MBA 

(electives, company analysis, research reports) to strengthen persona, professional and societal paths of transformation. 

Furthermore the Bertha Centre offers five fully and partially paid competitive Bertha Scholarships for those MBA 

candidates who are working on market-based and business solutions to social and environmental challenges in 

emerging markets, and Africa in particular. Bursaries are currently being considered for sponsoring of doctoral research 

as well. 

Bertha Centre’s research covers various aspects of social innovation with a business lens. Particular areas of research 

carried out by affiliated faculty includes SRI and impact investment; social entrepreneurship and network-based models; 

sustainable enterprise; and organizational development for social innovation. 

Finally, the Bertha Centre will run outreach programs for training, coaching, and supporting of socially innovative and 

entrepreneurial activity, focusing on scalable ventures with intentional development impacts. 

http://www.gsb.uct.ac.za/s.asp?p=389 


ISDE – Innovation, Sustainability, and Development – 

Research Group, University of Granada 

Granada, Spain 

Alberto Aragón-Correa is a full Professor of Management at University of Granada (Spain). 

He has been a visiting scholar at University of California at Berkeley and Los Angeles (USA) 

and a guest professor at ETH-Zurich (Switzerland) and Rotterdam Erasmus University (The 

Netherlands). 

His research interests include different connections between strategic management, 

natural environment, and sustainability. He has published papers in multiple top tier journals 

such as Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, British 

Journal Management, California Management Review, Long Range Planning, Journal of 

Environmental Management, Ecological Economics, among others. He has also published 

and edited different books regarding the topics of business strategies and environment. 

Alberto leads the Innovation, Sustainability, and Development Research Group (ISDE) at 

University of Granada. This research group includes 23 full scholars sharing a common 

interest on management and natural environment. He is also one of the academic 

coordinators of the Group of Research on Organizations and Natural Environment 

(GRONEN), and Professional Development Workshop Chair of the Academy of 

Management’s Organizations and Natural Environment Division (ONE). 


ISDE’s director is Dr. Alberto Aragón-Correa. The ISDE team includes about 25 full- time scholars who share interest 

in sustainability research and teaching management at University of Granada, four PhD students funded by the 

group and one administrative assistant. ISDE’s primary audiences are researchers and practitioners (managers and 

policy-makers). ISDE is one of the biggest research groups in Europe focusing sustainability issues. 

Mission: 

Our goal is to create knowledge to improve a balanced development including economic, social and environmental 

dimensions. Our interests are mainly focused on research projects demanding analytical expertise and oriented 

towards the analysis of the role of firms, organizations and management on the equilibrium between economic and 

environmental progresses. 


ISDE activities include a broad group of research developments. Our topics of interest include the connection 

between environmental issues and a broad range of management topics, such as: innovation, international 

management, stakeholders’ management, human resource management, among others. The vast majority of the 

ISDE projects are competitively funded by: the Spanish Ministry of Research, the Spanish Ministry of Education, 

and the regional government of Andalucia (“excellence research projects”). Some research projects and contracts 

are also funded by private prestigious research foundations (e.g. BBVA Foundation), specific organizations, or firms. 

We always try to create solid bridges between a top-quality research and business reality. Therefore, we develop 

our projects thinking about how useful they can be for researchers, public and private agents, governments, private 

organizations and directors. ISDE also organizes training activities of formation, diffusion and sensibility. Finally, ISDE 

members are particularly active collaborating with international networks of scholars, such as the Group of Research 

on Organizations and the Natural Environment (GRONEN) and the Academy of Management’s Organizations and the 

Natural Environment Division (ONE). 

http://isde.ugr.es 


Sustainable Commerce @ Guelph, 

College of Management and Economics, University of Guelph 

Guelph, Ontario, Canada 

Rumina Dhalla is an Assistant Professor, Organization Studies and Sustainable Commerce 

in the Department of Business, College of Management and Economics, at University of 

Guelph, Canada. She received her PhD from Schulich School of Business, York University, 

Canada. Her research focuses on organizational identity and reputation and their influence 

on organizational strategies, sustainability and corporate social responsibility, and she 

teaches related courses in graduate and undergraduate programs. She is the recipient 

of major grants from Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council for Canada 

for sustainability-related initiatives. She has also accumulated over 20 years of industry 

experience, mostly in the Canadian banking industry. 

Dr. Elizabeth C. Kurucz is Assistant Professor of Organizational Behaviour and Sustainable 

Commerce at the College of Management and Economics, University of Guelph. 

Elizabeth’s research explores the connection between organizations and societal change 

through engaging a complexity perspective of organizations as it relates to sustainability. 

Her current research is primarily focused on: the potential for multi-sectoral collaboration 

to catalyze social learning for sustainability; the social construction of sustainability and 

how individual interpretations of sustainability facilitate or inhibit organizational change; 

the connection between transformative learning and sustainability; and the role of applied 

sustainability research centres in fostering generative interactions between practice, 

research and education for sustainability. Most recently she is co-author (with Barry 

Colbert and David Wheeler) of Reconstructing Value: Leadership Skills for a Sustainable 

World (Forthcoming, December 2012, Rotman/UTP) based on insights over the past 

decade from research involving hundreds of practitioners across business, government 

and civil society sectors, all of whom have been working to integrate sustainability within 

their organizations. 


Sustainable Commerce @ Guelph is a network of researchers within the College of Management and Economics who 

are engaged in collaborative research in sustainable commerce in diverse topics including sustainable consumption, 

social responsibility, organizational reputation, diversity, unemployment, tobacco, technology, pollution and housing. 

Mission: 

The vision of the College of Management and Economics (CME) is to develop and be leaders for a sustainable 

world. Our mission at CME is to provide a transformation research, learning and social environment that encourages 

critical reflection, personal growth, community engagement and global awareness, and promotes comprehensive 

understanding of both traditional and emerging themes in management and economics. We foster social and ethical 

responsibility and prepare graduates for leadership roles that will improve the effectiveness of their organizations and the 

well-being of people around the world. 


At Sustainable Commerce @ Guelph, we are committed to inspire and create personal and professional leaders for 

sustainable and ethical enterprise by embedding issues of corporate social responsibility and sustainability in our 

research and teaching in our undergraduate and graduate programs. 

We aim to explore what CSR/sustainability means in an organizational or business context and what our students can 

do to become leaders who inspire change and contribute to the growing shift in the role of business in society and the 

impetus for local and global sustainable and ethical businesses. 

http://www.uoguelph.ca/cme/about-cme 


Sustainable Growth and Resilience Building (planning stage), 

Faculty of Management, University of Lethbridge 

Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada 

Dr. Rossitsa Yalamova’s research expertise in systems approach to the problem of 

sustainability will contribute a new research niche of emerging strength in an area of 

critical priority. Rossitsa applies complex systems hierarchical structure and dynamics 

methodology developed in her previous research to a level involving global sustainability 

problems. She has also added her research expertise in natural sciences to establish 

collaborations among researchers in different areas of sustainability. Her goal is to 

bring together researchers not only from the University of Lethbridge, but also from 

the agricultural research station, Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Water Institute for 

Sustainable Environment, colleagues from the Global Sustainability Summer School 

in Brunei etc. to encourage system thinking and collaborative effort not only in finding 

solutions to complex problems, but also the implementation of policies and practices 

that will foster sustainability in all aspects of human activity. 

Mission: 

To encourage system thinking and collaborative effort not only in finding solutions to the complex problems inflicted 

by the rapidly diminishing carrying capacity of the Earth, but also the implementation of policies and practices that 

will foster sustainability in all aspects of human activity. 


The global socio-economic system in its determination for growth is challenged by problems arising from negative 

externalities and unintended consequences of human activities in every sphere of their existence interwoven in 

a complex dynamical system. It is evident that growth not only entails social and political costs but may lead to 

catastrophic consequences as we approach not only physical, but also ecological, biological, cultural limits. But even 

as we try through technology to improve the carrying capacity of the planet we must be aware that complexity and 

self-organization in the system means that tiny initiating events can lead to avalanches of unintended consequences 

that could precipitate collapse of the system. In this sense addressing the issue of growth requires understanding of 

the topology and dynamics of the whole complex system. As Peccei foretold in the 1970s, management of change, 

management of interdependence and management of complexity are all crucial for maintaining sustainable growth at 

a dynamic equilibrium “to survive and to acquire a better quality of life in the age of man’s empire.” Making progress 

toward sustainable development demands that we get international decision-making right; the contentious state of 

climate change thinking as it strives to gain urgent priority status is an example of how such processes require more 

than a massing of facts. Sustainable development requires focusing on the underlying economic, demographic, 

political and environmental factors that currently limit adaptive capacity and increase vulnerability to climate change. 

http://www.uleth.ca/management/ 


Center for Sustainable Enterprise and 

Regional Competitiveness, University of Massachusetts 

Boston, Massachusetts, USA 

Benyamin Lichtenstein Ph.D. is Associate Professor of Management and a Research Fellow at 

the Center for Sustainable Enterprise and Regional Competitiveness (SERC), Research Director 

for the Entrepreneurship Center at U-Mass Boston, and is convener for the Sustainability 

Collaborative at U-Mass Boston. In addition to his Clean Tech Entrepreneurship course, he 

is pursuing a research project on the emergence of sustainability and authoring a new book 

for Oxford University Press on Organizational Emergence. Benyamin also finds joy playing the 

clarinet, and being with his artist-wife Sasha and their two children, Simeon and Moriah. 


SERC is an interdisciplinary centre housed in the College of Management. SERC was founded and is directed by 

David Levy, who also serves as the Chair of the Management/Marketing Department at the college. About 15 faculty 

are affiliated with the centre. SERC has just hired a full-time lecturer who will serve as a half-time staff person. SERC 

collaborates closely with other departments and colleges on campus and with other institutions. 

Mission: 

The mission of the SERC is to spur the development of a vibrant and sustainable low-carbon regional economy that 

serves as a model to the world. We pursue this mission by engaging in cutting-edge, interdisciplinary research on the 

linkages between sustainability and firm-level and regional competitiveness; by developing and delivering educational 

programs that provide the skills needed for workforce development to support a sustainability transformation; and by 

engaging in outreach and service to the larger community. 


• SERC developed and co-runs a graduate and undergraduate Certificate in Clean Energy and Sustainability, and 

extended the Environmental Management specialization within the MBA program. 

• Research on Corporate Responses to Climate Change: an International Comparative Analysis. Drs. Levy 

and Haigh are collaborating with Oxford University and the U. of Western Sydney on a project funded by a 

AUD300,000 three-year award from the Australian Research Council to examine corporate strategies in several 

energy-intense sectors. 

• Research on Making the Leap from Local to Global: A Study of How Firms Address Global Sustainability Issues. 

Dr. Haigh is currently examining how US firms address global sustainability issues in ways that are successful for 

the firm and contribute to resolving the broader issue. 

• Research on building competitive clean tech clusters in dynamic global value chains. In light of recent 

concerns that China might dominate new clean energy markets, we are studying emerging patterns of regional 

competitiveness for clean energy and related sectors at different stages in the value chain. 

• Pursuing a large-scale project on Workforce Development in the Clean Economy 

Examples of recent outreach events: 

1. A workshop on Carbon Leadership Strategies for the Financial Sector 

2. The Carbon Negative workshop series in collaboration with UMass Amherst 

3. A panel to address the prospects for “green jobs”, regional competitiveness and the role of “green education” 

4. A gala dinner featuring keynote speaker Gina McCarthy, a graduate of UMass-Boston and currently the EPA’s 

Assistant Administrator for Air and Radiation. In this capacity, she directs EPA’s policy on climate change. 

5. A panel event featuring Dan Reicher, Director of Climate Change & Energy Initiatives for Google 

6. An annual green jobs fair 

7. An exclusive screening of the documentary CarbonNation, hosted by the film’s producer 

8. A panel on green chemistry, in conjunction with the Green Chemistry Center 

http://www.umb.edu/serc/ 


Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise, 

University of Michigan 

Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA 

Professor Thomas P. Lyon, Dow Chemical Professor of Sustainable Science, Technology 

and Commerce, Ross School of Business and School of Natural Resources and 

Environment. Professor Lyon’s current research deals with the interplay between corporate 

strategy and public policy, including corporate environmentalism, electric utility investment 

practices, natural gas contracting, innovation in the health care sector and the introduction 

of competition in regulated industries. His book Corporate Environmentalism and Public 

Policy was published by Cambridge University Press in November 2004. Professor Lyon 

serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Regulatory Economics, and his research 

has been published in such journals as the RAND Journal of Economics, the Journal of 

Law and Economics, the Journal of Public Economics, the Journal of Economics and 

Management Strategy and the Journal of Law, Economics and Organization. 

Rick Bunch is Managing Director of the Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise, 

a partnership between University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business and School of 

Natural Resources and Environment. Previously with The Aspen Institute, he supported 

teaching and research on CSR topics in Chinese business schools. From 2003 to 2005, 

he was Executive Director of Bainbridge Graduate Institute, the first independent graduate 

school of sustainable business. From 1996 to 2003, Bunch was Director of Business 

Education at World Resources Institute, where he helped business schools teach and 

research sustainability topics and launched the biennial Beyond Grey Pinstripes report. 

Student Participants: 

Ethan Schoolman: I am a doctoral student in sociology at the University of Michigan with wide-ranging interests in 

political, cultural and environmental sociology. For my dissertation, I am investigating alternative forms of political 

participation, focusing on the conditions under which people incorporate ethical and political views into decisions 

about what to buy and where to shop. I have also published on the interdisciplinary structure of sustainability 

science and related fields and on environmental inequality in developing countries, in particular China. I am currently 

the Qualitative Research Coordinator for a longitudinal study of undergraduate attitudes and practices related to 

environmental sustainability on the campus of a major public research university. Prior to beginning my doctorate at 

U-M, I obtained an M.A. in Politics from Princeton and a B.A. from the University of Chicago. I have also worked as 

a fundraiser for non-profit groups, a housekeeper in backcountry Alaska, a reporter and a field assistant in a study of 

bird populations. 

Sunmin Kim: Sunmin is a doctoral scholar at the Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise at the University of 

Michigan. She is pursuing a joint PhD in Strategy (Ross School of Business) and Environmental Engineering (College 

of Engineering) and is interested in studying corporate sustainability strategy in the paper industry. She examines 

how targeted environmental performance creates value for firms, from “greening” of the supply chain and also shifts 

in the industry-wide value system due to interactive and strategic forces. This is done by extending the theoretical 

framework of the natural-resource-based view of the firm to valuation concepts and toolsfrom engineering and 

complex systems. 

Outside her doctoral research, she is broadly interested in the role of corporations and higher education in today’s 

societal sustainability challenges. She is actively involved in several outreach and professional activities to help bridge 

the gap between not only different disciplines oncampus, but also between practitioners, corporate leaders and 

academics. To highlight, she is the Outreach co-director of Michigan Energy Club, where she initiated and now run a 


weekly newsletter highlight campus-wide sustainability and energy-related issues. She is also a conference blogger 

for the Rio+20 events through the oikos Foundation student reporters program. 

Sunmin received her B.S. in Biological Engineering at Cornell University, with a minor in Mechanical Engineering. 

At Cornell, she worked at the Biofuels Research Lab, and developed a lithographic parylene lift-off method for 

optimizing biofuels production at the enzyme-substrate level. She was also a National Science Foundation Research 

Experience for Undergraduates (NSF REU) scholar at University of Texas, where she helped develop a novel 

microcontact printing technique for optical microscopy applications, resulting in a patent and journal publications. 


The Erb Institute is a partnership between the Ross School of Business and the School of Natural Resources and 

Environment. Faculty Director, Professor Andrew J. Hoffman, and our two other core faculty members, Tom Lyon and 

Tom Gladwin, have endowed chairs and dual appointments in both Ross and SNRE. The staff includes managing 

director Rick Bunch and four other full-time staff. The Institute is funded mostly from returns on its endowment. We 

have a 12-member Strategic Advisory Council of senior sustainability practitioners who advise on high-level and 

forward-looking issues of content and strategy. We also have a 35-member External Advisory Board of practitioners 

who support and advise the MBA/MS program and students. 

Mission: 

The Erb Institute is committed to creating a socially and environmentally sustainable society through the power of 

business. Building on nearly two decades of research, teaching and direct engagement, the Institute has become 

one of the world’s leading sources of innovative knowledge on the culture, technologies, operations and governance 

of business in a changing world. The institute’s impact is realized most powerfully through our vibrant global network 

of students and alumni who are the transformative change agents in business, government and the non-profit 

worlds. 


The Erb Institute, originally established in 1993 as the Corporate Environmental Management Program, brings 

together the resources of the University of Michigan’s highly rated business and environment schools in teaching, 

research and outreach initiatives. Our flagship education offering, the three-year, dual degree MBA-MS program, 

produces graduates equipped with strong management skills and the environmental science and policy depth 

needed to look into the future and develop market-based solutions to pressing social problems. The program counts 

about 100 current students and 250 alumni going back to 1995, working on a broad range of sustainability issues in 

a variety of industries and functions around the world. Three core Institute professors teach and conduct research 

on strategy, organizational and economic topics in sustainable enterprise, and about 40 other U-M professors serve 

as Institute affiliates with relevant research interests. The Institute has two post-doctoral researchers on staff and has 

a strong record of placing its post-docs in tenure-track academic positions. 

We also conduct a variety of outreach activities. Each year, we host one or two major research conferences that 

bring together top academics and practitioners to explore topics such as Social Science Perspectives on Climate 

Change, and the issues surrounding ecolabels, standards and certifications. We publish reports and newsletters 

and conduct media outreach around our research areas, also maintaining an active social media presence. The Erb 

Colloquium brings ten to 15 distinguished academics to UM every year to present their current research, and the Erb 

Speaker Series hosts a regular stream of leading practitioners to discuss current issue in practice. 

http://erb.umich.edu/ 


International Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility (ICCSR), 

Nottingham University Business School (NUBS), 

University of Nottingham 

Nottingham, United Kingdom 

Jeremy Moon is Professor and founding Director of the International Centre for Corporate 

Social Responsibility (2002 to ) and was Deputy Director of Nottingham University 

Business School (2006 to 2010). Current teaching includes the MBA Integrative Module 

Sustainable Decisions and Organisations. 

Jeremy is co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of CSR (Oxford, 2008), co-author of 

Corporations and Citizenship (Cambridge, 2009) and co-editor of the Cambridge series, 

Business, Value Creation and Society. Publications include Academy of Management 

Review, British Journal of Management, Journal of Business Ethics, Business Ethics 

Quarterly, Business and Society, Corporate Governance: An International Review, 

Journal of Management Studies, Economy and Society, Organisation Studies. He won a 

Beyond Grey Pinstripes Faculty award for preparing MBAs for social and environmental 

stewardship (2005). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts. 


The ICCSR, founded in 2002, has a Director (Moon), a further nine core academic staff, affiliates in the Malaysia and 

China campuses, a Business Development Manager (Maggie Royston) and two administrative staff. In addition it has 

about a dozen Visiting Professors and Fellows. It has a practitioner Advisory Panel. 

Mission: 

The mission of the ICCSR is to contribute to CSR knowledge and practice through teaching and research. CSR is 

broadly defined embracing business ethics, responsibility, accountability and sustainability, and is evaluated from 

multi-stakeholder and international perspectives. Through its teaching and research, the ICCSR engages with the 

worlds of policy and practice. 


• Teaching: The ICCSR runs an MBA (CSR) and MSc (CSR) designed to contribute to the development of CSR 

professionals, and is currently preparing to launch an MSc in Managing for Sustainability. It mainstreams CSR in 

the School through a core BA Management “Business Ethics” module and a core MBA ‘Sustainable Decisions 

and Organisations’ module. It offers bespoke and open access Executive CSR Education. 

• Research: The ICCSR contributes to CSR research through publications with leading journals and publishers. 

About twenty PhDs have been completed. Current Centre projects include “CSR Impact” (through a European 

Commission project), “Integrating Sustainability into Business Education”, “CSR in Asia” and “CSR rankings”. 

• Engagement: The ICCSR has engaged with numerous partners to investigate key issues of responsible 

business. These include business associations (e.g. Business in the Community), companies (e.g. Boots, 

Halcrow, The Commercial Group), SRI organizations (e.g. FTSE4Good), professional organizations (e.g. the 

Association of Certified Chartered Accountants, Chartered Institute of Management Accounting), NGOs (e.g. 

Charities Aid Foundation), and international agencies (e.g. International Labor Organisation). It holds an annual 

conference or symposium (in the UK, Malaysia or China), an annual Christmas lecture and an annual Film Series, 

Doing the Business, in partnership with the Broadway Cinema. 

http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/business/ICCSR/ 


Sustainability Centre (tentative name), 

Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa 

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada 

David Wright combines an Engineering PhD from Cambridge University, UK, with his current position as Full 

Professor in the University of Ottawa, Telfer School of Management to provide a business perspective on Information 

and Communications Technology, ICT, including its use to mitigate and adapt to climate change. 

Dr. Wright provides undergraduate and graduate courses in Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental 

Entrepreneurship. He is the author of five books and his recent publications are in the areas of Smart Grid, Corporate 

Social Responsibility, Environmental Entrepreneurship and Wireless E-Commerce. Dr. Wright is cited in Who’s Who 

in the World, Who’s Who in Canadian Business, Who’s Who in Science and Engineering and Who’s Who in Finance 

and Business. 


The Telfer School of Management has identified “sustainability” as a strategic area of development. A group of six 

to eight professors lead by David Wright is working on the development of a graduate program in sustainability and 

ultimately the establishment of a “centre”. 

Mission: 

Teaching, research and collaboration inside and outside the university related to sustainability. 


1. Energy Use and Climate Change 

This research addresses both mitigation and adaptation approaches to climate change. Mitigation involves 

investigation of ways in which energy use can be reduced or switched to a different time of day so as to reduce the 

greenhouse gas emissions resulting from energy consumption and electric power generation. Adaptation involves 

coping with the effects of climate change that are already affecting. Current projects include: 

• Location and scheduling of datacentres to reduce emissions from electric power generation 

• Policy analysis for management of Canada’s coastal communities, fisheries and aquaculture 

2. Sustainable Management 

Sustainable Management is an interdisciplinary field that focuses on the triple-bottom line. Researchers investigate 

questions about how organizations could, both separately and collaboratively, achieve a sustainable balance among 

profit, social needs and environmental needs. Current projects include: 

• Analysis of pricing differentials between new products and products that use post-consumer content 

• Managing human resources and cross-cultural collaboration in international sustainable development projects 

and NGOs 

• The impact of entrepreneurial orientation and other factors on SMEs’ sustainability and development of 

sustainability measurement scales for SMEs 

• Designing a sustainable business model for managing a wireless telehealth network in rural Peru 

3. Sustainable Marketing 

Sustainable Marketing addresses a range of sustainability issues related to promotion, pricing, product design and 

development, and distribution. Current projects include: 

• Study of various issues and concerns related to green products/organic food/local food consumer behaviour, 

plus the development of sustainable marketing strategies and models 

• Identifying and analyzing the marketing strategies that are most often utilized and are most effective in 

achieving financial self-sufficiency in social entrepreneurship organizations 

http://www.telfer.uottawa.ca/en 


oikos, University of St. Gallen 

St. Gallen, Switzerland 

plus 35 chapters in 20 countries 

Dr. Jost Hamschmidt is Academic Director of oikos, an international NGO promoting 

sustainability research and teaching in management education. His research interests 

include sustainability, strategy and collaborative entrepreneurship. Jost received a PhD in 

Management from the University of St. Gallen (Switzerland) and has been a visiting research 

scholar at UC Berkeley and Harvard Business School. He has co-edited several volumes in 

the field of Sustainability, Entrepreneurship and Strategy. 

In line with his oikos activities he is lecturing at the University of St. Gallen within the CEMS 

Master in International Management Program (CEMS-MIM). 

Student Participant: 

Priya Bala-Miller is the Director of International Programs at the Shareholder Association for Research and Education 

(SHARE). SHARE is a Canadian leader in responsible investment services for institutional investors. Prior to joining 

SHARE, Priya worked with UN agencies and international NGOs as an advocate for corporate social responsibility 

and sustainability. She has published numerous policy reports on these themes, and published peer-reviewed papers 

in the Consumer Policy Review and Journal of Sustainable Finance and Investment. Currently, Priya is also a Liu 

Scholar and doctoral student with the Department of Political Science at the University of British Columbia. Her 

research, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), focuses on understanding 

the impacts of shareholder engagement in conflict-affected areas and emerging markets. Priya is a member of 

the Canadian Business Ethics Research Network (CBERN) and UN-Principles for Responsible Investment (UN- 

PRI) Academic Network, and a Research Associate at the Carleton Centre for Community Innovation at Carleton 

University. In a voluntary capacity, Priya enjoys her role as a Director for the Coalition of Universities for Responsible 

Investment (CURI). 


Oikos is an action-oriented organization that operates through a broad network. Headquartered in St. Gallen, 

Switzerland (President: Alexander Barkawi; Managing Director: Eissa Khoury; Academic Director: Jost Hamschmidt; 

Student President: Dawid Wroblewski), we have currently a staff of five full-time equivalents including six oikos PhD 

Fellows working on international key projects. Primary audiences are faculty, PhD- and undergraduate students, as 

well as practitioners (both managers and policy makers). Oikos presently includes 38 voluntary student chapters 

in 20 countries – about 1,000 student members and about 100 senior faculty members are actively involved in our 

annual programs. The oikos programs are financed by corporate partners, foundations and fees. 

Mission: 

To transform management and economics education and research to ensure the development of engaged 

responsible citizens who create a sustainable world. 

Main activities: 

Oikos members aim to be provocative, influential, enterprising and collaborative. Our action-learning student 

projects (e.g. oikos Model WTO, oikos Winterschool) strenghten entrepreneurial student leaders. Our academic 

projects include the international oikos PhD Fellowship Program, the oikos Global Case Writing Competition (with 

tracks in Corporate Sustainabilty and Social Entrepreneurship) and a series of five annual international Young 

Scholars Academies on Entrepreneurship, Development and Inclusive Markets, Finance, Organizational Theory and 

Economics. We partner with other organizations (e.g. ANDE, Ashoka, caseplace.org, CEMS, UN PRI, UNDP GIM, 

The Hub, WTO) in different disciplines and provide co-learning platforms for worldclass faculty, aspiring emerging 

researchers, thought leaders in business and policy as well as management students across the globe. 

www.oikos-international.org 


Centre for Corporate Governance in Africa, 

University of Stellenbosch Business School, South Africa 

Cape Town, South Africa 

Daniel Malan is a Senior Lecturer in Ethics and Governance at the University of Stellenbosch 

Business School (USB) and Director of the Centre for Corporate Governance in Africa 

at the USB. His focus areas are corporate governance, business ethics and corporate 

responsibility. He is a member of the following initiatives: the World Economic Forum’s Global 

Agenda Council on Values in Decision Making, the International Corporate Governance 

Network’s Integrated Business Reporting Committee and the Anti-Corruption Working 

Group of the United Nations Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME). 

His educational qualifications include a Masters degree in Philosophy as well as a Masters 

degree in Business Administration (MBA), both from the University of Stellenbosch in South 

Africa. He lives in Stellenbosch with his wife and two daughters, where he is the residential 

head of Wilgenhof, the oldest university men’s residence in Africa. 


The centre comprises a chairperson (Prof. Bob Garratt), director (Daniel Malan), research manager (Anna Yortt), 

visiting research fellows and an administrative assistant (Sunelle Hanekom). Our advisory panel members are: Sir 

Mark Moody-Stuart (former chairperson of Anglo American and chairperson of the board of the UN Global Compact 

Foundation), Prof. Ollie Williams (Notre Dame University and member of the UN Global Compact Foundation Board), 

Judge Mervyn King (chairperson of the King Committee on Corporate Governance and chairperson of the Global 

Reporting Initiative), Stephen Davis (director of the Millstein Center for Corporate Governance and Performance at 

Yale University), Prof Martin Hilb (head of the Center for Corporate Governance at the University of St Gallen), Paul 

Lee (director of Hermes Equity Ownership Services) and Eon Smit (former USB director). The Centre’s visiting senior 

research fellows are Thina Siwendu (lawyer and corporate governance consultant), Lynn McGregor (an experienced 

board director, consultant, and author of “The Human Face of Corporate Governance”), Dr Victor Prozesky (partner 

at Heidrick & Struggles), Deon Botha (corporate governance specialist at the Public Investment Corporation), 

Achieng Ojwang (National Business Initiative) and Cornis van der Lugt (independent consultant and formerly from 

UNEP). 

Mission: 

The mission of the centre is to develop both the compliance and the performance aspects of directors’ attitudes, 

knowledge and skills, as well as the link between corporate governance, business ethics and total organizational 

performance 


The Centre has four major focus areas: 

• Responsible Investment: The centre has collaborated with the Public Investment Corporation of South Africa 

on the development of a Governance Rating Matrix for South African companies. Over the last four years 

the centre has assessed the environmental, social and governance performance of listed South African 

companies. With the assistance of the Hanns Seidel Foundation the matrix was adapted in 2011 to focus on 

the performance of state-owned enterprises. In 2010, the centre was appointed as the local research partner 

of UK-based EIRIS, to conduct research on South African companies for inclusion in the Johannesburg Stock 

Exchange’s Social Responsible Investment Index. 

• Board leadership: The centre conducts colloquia under the leadership of Lynn McGregor, where topical 

issues are discussed by directors. A recent sponsorship received from Vodacom will enable the launch 

of a chairman’s forum in the second half of 2012. The centre was also identified by the Global Corporate 

Governance Forum as a possible regional centre for corporate governance in Sub-Saharan Africa. 


• Integrated reporting: The centre has partnered with UNEP and Deloitte on a new publication, Making 

Investment Grade: the Future of Corporate Reporting. The publication will be launched in New York and 

Johannesburg in May 2012 and made available at the UN Global Compact’s Corporate Sustainability Forum, 

before the Earth Summit Rio+20. The publication will present opinion pieces and interviews with international 

thought leaders about the future of the rapidly developing field of corporate reporting. The publication will 

explore key decision points that will determine the future evolution of reporting, in particular sustainability 

reporting, annual reporting and integrated reporting. The Centre is also represented on the International 

Corporate Governance Network’s Integrated Business Reporting Committee. 

• Values and ethics: The centre is represented on the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council for 

Values in Decision Making, as well as the United Nations Principles for Responsible Management Education’s 

anti-corruption working group. 

http://www.governance.usb.ac.za/ 


School of Environment, Enterprise and Development 

(SEED), Faculty of Environment, University of Waterloo 

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada 

Dr. Neil Craik is the Director and Associate Professor of Law in the School of 

Environment, Enterprise and Development (SEED). Dr. Craik’s teaching and research 

interests are broadly in the areas of public and regulatory law, with a focus on innovative 

regulatory structures and instruments in international and Canadian environmental 

law. His current research examines the role of procedural obligations in governance 

structures addressing transboundary and global commons environmental issues. 

Professor Craik has particular interests in the intersection of international and domestic 

environmental policy, North American climate governance, and environmental impact 

assessment. He is the author of three books, including The International Law of 

Environmental Impact Assessment: Process, Substance and Integration (Cambridge 

University Press, 2008), and numerous journal articles, largely focusing on environmental 

law, policy and governance. 


The School of Environment, Enterprise and Development was created in 2009 in order to consolidate undergraduate 

and graduate programs in environment and business, international development, local economic development and 

social innovation generation within a single academic unit in the University of Waterloo’s Faculty of Environment. 

SEED has approximately 800 students, fifteen full-time faculty members and nine staff members. Several universitylevel 

research centres are associated with SEED, including the Waterloo Institute for Social Innovation and Resilience 

and the Waterloo Institute for Complexity and Innovation. 

Mission: 

SEED develops the knowledge, tools and expertise to realize a sustainable world. SEED strives to be a recognized 

nationally and internationally by students, researchers, and the business and policy communities as a leading 

academic institution for integrating business and development activities with environmental and social objectives. 


The School offers two undergraduate programs: a Bachelor of Environmental Studies (B.E.S.) in Environment and 

Business and a B.E.S. in International Development. It also offers a graduate program granting a Masters in Local 

Economic Development (M.A.E.S.), a Masters in Environment and Business (M.E.B.), a Master in Development 

Practice (part of the global MDP network) and a Graduate Diploma in Social Innovation Generation. SEED will be 

offering a research degree (masters) in sustainability management commencing in 2013. 

http://www.seed.uwaterloo.ca/ 


Centre for Social and Sustainable Innovation, 

Gustavson School of Business, University of Victoria 

Victoria, British Columbia, Canada 

Monika Winn is a professor of business strategy and sustainability, Francis G. Winspear 

Scholar, and director of the Centre for Social and Sustainable Innovation. Her teaching and 

research target the many aspects of business and sustainability, and her primary research 

interest is on organizational and institutional change related to the challenges of sustainability. 

Recent research streams focus on (1) leveraging social and environmental issues in business 

for progressive strategic action (2) integrating business strategy with nature’s functioning 

principles (3) climate change impacts for business and (4) implications of sustainable “Base of 

the Pyramid” approaches for marketing to the poorest of the poor. 

Her research has been published in such journals as the Academy of Management Review, 

Organization Studies, Business and Society, Journal of Business Venturing, Business 

Strategy and the Environment, British Journal of Management and others. She actively 

collaborates with colleagues in several international research networks, spanning Europe, 

North America and Australia. She has been a contributor to the Greening of Industry Network 

since its beginnings, co-founded and chaired the international Academy of Management’s 

“Organizations and the Natural Environment” group, and has been a champion – informally 

and formally – for the integration of sustainability into Gustavson since the late 1990s. 

Dr. Winn has international teaching experience, including executive education on Corporate Sustainability in Canada, 

the United States and Australia (in the Sustainable Enterprise Academy, the World Bank’s International Finance 

Corporation, University of Queensland) and at the University of California (Santa Barbara and Irvine). 


CSSI has a director, associate director, four faculty chairs – one each for education, operations, research, and 

governance – and one part-time staff coordinator. As the first intrafaculty centre at UVic, it is a functional unit within 

the Gustavson School of Business. 

Mission: 

CSSI supports and enhances the work of Gustavson faculty, staff and students in sustainability and corporate social 

responsibility, inspiring business thought and practice that sustains and enhances quality of life today and across 

generations. The CSSI team acts as a catalyst to cultivate sustainability in all aspects of the Gustavson School of 

Business’s educational programs, from core courses to co-ops to international exchanges. 


• CSSI creates new and optimizes existing communication lines with faculty, staff and students at Gustavson 

and across campus, and with the broader community, to share sustainability and social responsibility resources 

and information from local, national and global sources. 

• We mobilize knowledge to increase sustainability and social responsibility content in Gustavson educational 

offerings and culture. 

• We implement operational measures and tactics to manage the faculty’s carbon footprint – to walk the talk and 

to teach by example. 

• Twenty percent of Gustavson researchers are dedicated to sustainability and CSR. They work nationally and 

internationally with partners around the world. 

• We are an early signatory to the UN Global Compact PRME and use that tool to annually update the 

sustainability and CSR work that is going on in every unit at the Gustavson School of Business. 

http://www.uvic.ca/gustavson/cssi/ 


Darden School of Business, University of Virginia 

Charlottesville, Virginia, USA 

Erika Herz is the Manager of Sustainability Programs at the University of Virginia Darden 

School of Business, and Managing Director of the Alliance for Research on Corporate 

Sustainability (ARCS). She oversees Darden’s sustainability action plan called How We Live 

and How We Learn, which focuses on the curriculum and the operations of the school. 

Darden’s goal is to be a zero waste, carbon neutral enterprise by 2020, and a top ten 

business school for teaching and research on sustainability by 2013. Erika hosts the Darden 

Greenpod, a podcast series featuring interviews with sustainability scholars and business 

leaders. She also serves on the Academic Integration Subcommittee of UVA’s Presidential 

Committee on Sustainability. For ARCS, which advances rigorous academic research on 

corporate sustainability issues by providing data and networking opportunities to researchers, 

Erika manages daily operations, events and web resources, including the annual research 

conference and Sustainability Teaching Summit. Erika was formerly Sustainability Manager 

for UTC Power, a business unit of United Technologies Corp. (UTC) where she focused on 

incorporating sustainability practices into engineering and operations processes. 


Darden’s sustainability and ethical leadership curriculum is strengthened by several research centers housed at the 

School. Each is led by a Faculty Director, an Executive or Managing Director, and an advisory board, with the mission 

to advance both thought leadership and the application of new ideas. 

Mission and Main Activities: 

Batten Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation 

The Batten Institute creates value and transforms society through entrepreneurship and innovation. The Institute’s 

academic research center advances knowledge that addresses real-world challenges and shapes Darden’s 

curriculum, and the Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership offers one of the world’s top entrepreneurship programs. 

The Batten Institute’s Sustainability Initiative – ones of its key strategic pillars – focuses on the mechanisms by which 

entrepreneurship and innovation can simultaneously drive a firm’s market success and discover solutions to societal 

challenges such as climate change. Main activities with a sustainability focus include: 

• The Entrepreneurship Conference 

• Entrepreneurship in Israel Conference 

• Batten Venture Internship Program 

• Sustainability-focused cases and briefings 

Business Roundtable Institute for Corporate Ethics 

The Business Roundtable Institute for Corporate Ethics is an independent entity established in partnership with 

Business Roundtable—an association of chief executive officers of leading U.S. companies with nearly $6 trillion 

in annual revenues and more than 13 million employees. The Institute brings together leaders from business and 

academia to fulfill its mission to renew and enhance the link between ethical behavior and business practice through 

executive education programs, practitioner-focused research and outreach. Main activities with a sustainability and 

ethical leadership focus include: 

• CEO Ethics Seminars 

• Bridge PapersTM which translate the best academic research in the field of business ethics into a form that 

today’s managers can employ easily in their everyday work. 

• Case Studies 

• Project on Public Trust in Business 

• Video resources on teaching business ethics 


Initiative for Business in Society (IBiS) 

Business has an urgent need to tell a fresh story about how it interacts and contributes to society. More importantly, 

the world of commerce must produce and develop a new cadre of leaders who function skillfully in a world so 

complex and global that today’s business executives often find themselves in unfamiliar territory. The recentlylaunched 

Initiative for Business in Society will develop such leaders who understand how business creates value for 

society, and how society creates value opportunities for business. Through a combination of case writing, curriculum, 

external outreach and academic research, IBiS will engage executives who understand the new dynamics of 

business in the 21st century and who, through their example and leadership, make an enormous impact on how 

business is conducted in a global economy with divergent interests and stakeholder demands. Main activities will 

include: 

• Cases and Teaching Materials 

• Courses and Conferences for MBA Students, Executives and Thought Leaders 

• Research 

http://www.darden.virginia.edu/web/Home/ 


Alliance for Research on Corporate Sustainability (ARCS), 

Darden School of Business, University of Virginia 

Charlottesville, Virgina, USA 

Professor Andrew King from the Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College will be representing. 


Alliance of affiliated centers, schools, and universities, overseen by Faculty Director, Managing Director and Board 

of Directors. Participating schools include: Darden School of Business, University of Virginia; Haas School of 

Business, University of California-Berkeley; Harvard University Center for the Environment, Harvard University; 

INSEAD Social Innovation Centre, INSEAD; Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario; Johnson 

School, Cornell University; Kelley School of Business, Indiana University; Kellogg School of Management Ford 

Motor Company Center for Global Citizenship, Northwestern University; Nicholas School of Environment, Duke 

University; Ross School of Business, University of Michigan; Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College; Initiative 

for Global Environmental Leadership, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania; Yale Center for Business and the 

Environment, Yale University; Sloan School of Business, MIT. 

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 foster sustainable business. 


1. ARCS holds one of the premier conferences on Business and Sustainability annually in the month of May. 

The 2012 ARCS Conference is sponsored by Yale’s Center for Business and the Environment, and will bring 

together scholars from a variety of disciplinary and methodological perspectives. The conference is preceded 

by the ARCS Sustainability Teaching Summit – From Classrooms to Boardrooms: Embedding Sustainability 

Research in Curriculum and Corporate Strategy, to showcase and discuss the latest available pedagogical 

approaches, tools and materials to faculty and practitioners. 

2. ARCS sponsors an annual PhD Sustainability Academy to support and guide aspiring researchers. This is held 

every year at the University of Western Ontario Ivey School of Business. 

3. ARCS provides data and processing support to aspiring researchers 

4. The ARCS website offers blogs and research highlights 

5. ARCS sponsored mapecos.com a collaborative website designed to provide an evenhanded view of industrial 

environmental performance 

6. ARCS holds workshops including the 2010 NSF-funded collaboration on Data Needs for Accelerating 

Progress on Corporate Sustainability 

http://www.corporate-sustainability.org/ 


CMA Centre for Business & Sustainability, 

School of Business & Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University 

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada 

Dr. Barry Colbert is Director of the CMA Centre for Business & Sustainability and Associate Professor 

of Policy & Strategic Management in the School of Business and Economics at Wilfrid Laurier 

University in Waterloo. His research is centred on societal learning for sustainability, and the means by 

which organizations align a vision for sustainability, corporate and business strategy, and the strategic 

development of human capital. Barry has served as Adjunct Faculty and taught at the Copenhagen 

Business School, Dalhousie University, McMaster University and the Ontario College of Art & Design. 

He also serves as Board Chair of Sustainable Waterloo, a collaborative non-profit organization focused 

on advancing the environmental sustainability of organizations across Waterloo. 


CMA Centre for Business & Sustainability is housed in the business school at Laurier with 20+ associated faculty across 

the university. It connects to and supports student engagement and action through Laurier’s MBA Net Impact Chapter 

and other student groups. In 2008 the Centre was the originating Founding Partner for Sustainable Waterloo Region, 

and continues to partner with SWR as presenting sponsor of its ongoing series of Educational Forums and Technical 

Workshops for members in the Regional Carbon Initiative and the public. 

Mission: 

The CMA Centre for Business & Sustainability (CMA-CBS) exists to foster sustainable management by developing and 

mobilizing knowledge on the integration of business and a sustainable global society. The CMA-CBS serves as a catalyst 

to bring together faculty researchers, students, and leaders in industry and civil society, in order to build capacity for 

progressive, socially and environmentally engaged management practice. 


The CMA-CBS at Laurier operates as an applied sustainability research centre with five key strategic areas of focus: 

1. Research: 

• Fostering and sharing high quality, cross-disciplinary academic research on sustainability and the role of business 

• Financially support doctoral research 

• Conducting extended project on social learning for sustainability (SSHRC supported) 

2. Teaching/Curriculum: 

• Leading on curriculum renewal to integrate sustainability concepts into the traditional business curriculum 

• New BBA and revamped MBA electives; new BBA Sustainability concentration 

• Research Assistant support to other faculty to develop sustainability focused teaching materials 

• Convened (with U Guelph) a multi-institution workshop on integrating sustainability into business education – 2010 

3. Student Engagement: 

• Raising student awareness and engagement in sustainability issues at Undergraduate, Masters and Doctoral levels 

• Sponsoring ongoing research and practice speakers series 

• Initiated the launch of the MBA Net Impact Chapter, with ongoing support 

• Sponsorship and mentorship for Laurier’s participation in the Aspen Institute’s MBA International Case 

Competition; Laurier team won First Place in 2011 

4. Civil Society Engagement: 

• Working with civil society organizations to further their capacity for effective advocacy on sustainability issues 

• Founded Sustainable Waterloo Region as a CSO spinoff organization 

• Currently engaged with regional civil society through research project on social learning for sustainability 

5. Business Engagement: 

• Fostering dialogue with and among business leaders, to explore jointly effective approaches to meeting social, 

economic and environmental value creation challenge 

• Engage regional business leaders in research projects and ongoing applied research communication forums 

http://www.wlu.ca/homepage.php?grp_id=1685 


World Business Council for Sustainable Development 

(WBCSD) 

Geneva, Switzerland 

Ms Karen Sim is the Project Officer at the President’s Office at the WBCSD. She works 

directly with the President Peter Bakker on various special projects, including developing 

the “MBA of the Future”. She served the Singapore Government for a number of years in 

defence and economic development, before moving to Geneva, Switzerland to join the 

World Economic Forum. Her keen interest in environmental issues and sustainability led her 

to the Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF), where she was a consultant before she joined the 

WBCSD. 


The WBCSD is governed by a Council made up of member company CEO’s or their representatives. This council 

delegates the management of the organization to the Executive Committee. Members of the Executive Committee, 

including the Chairman and four Vice Chairmen, are elected for a two-year period by the Council. Responsibility for the 

day-to-day management of WBCSD affairs lies with the President based at the Geneva headquarters and assisted by 

a staff secretariat. WBCSD’s current President is Mr Peter Bakker. 

The council meets annually to decide on the organization’s priorities and discuss strategic issues connected to 

sustainable development. 

Mission: 

The WBCSD is a CEO-led organization of forward-thinking companies that galvanizes the global business community 

to create a sustainable future for business, society and the environment. 

From its starting point in 1992 to the present day, the council has created respected thought leadership on business 

and sustainability. 

The council plays the leading advocacy role for business. Leveraging strong relationships with stakeholders, it helps 

drive debate and policy change in favor of sustainable development solutions. 


The council provides a forum for its 200 member companies - who represent all business sectors, all continents and 

combined revenue of over $US 7 trillion - to share best practices on sustainable development issues and to develop 

innovative tools that change the status quo. The council also benefits from a network of 60 national and regional 

business councils and partner organizations, a majority of which are based in developing countries. 

By thinking ahead, advocating for progress and delivering results, the WBCSD both increases the impact of our 

members’ individual actions and catalyzes collective action that can change the future of our society for the better. 

An annual Liaison Delegate meeting takes place in each spring in Montreux, Switzerland, providing delegates with the 

opportunity to catch up on the latest sustainable development issues and network with their peers. 

Each fall the council meeting brings together council members (CEOs and equivalent), senior executives and 60 

regional network partners. 

http://www.wbcsd.org 


Building Sustainable Value Research Centre, 

Richard Ivey School of Business, Western University 

London, Ontario, Canada 

Dr. Tima Bansal is the Director for the Building Sustainable Value Research Centre (BSV), a 

professor at the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario and 

Executive Director for the Network for Business Sustainability (NBS). Dr. Bansal’s interest in 

the impact of the sustainability paradigm on business strategy has resulted in over 25 peer 

reviewed academic publications and two books on Business and the Natural Environment. In 

2008, she was awarded the Aspen’s Institute title of Faculty Pioneer for Academic Leadership 

and in 2011 was appointed to the Clean50 for the significant contributions she has made to 

advance the cause of sustainability and clean capitalism. 

Dr. Robert Klassen is a Professor of Operations Management at the Richard Ivey School of 

Business. Robert’s research interests focus on exploring the linkages between operations and 

the natural environment, including international operations. This research has emphasized, 

first, characterizing the pattern of investment in environmental technologies, and second, 

understanding both the antecedents and performance outcomes of these investments. His 

research has been published in Management Science, Journal of Operations Management, 

Academy of Management Journal, and Decision Sciences, among others. He is currently 

serving on the Editorial Review Board for the Journal of Operations Management. Robert was 

the Chair of the Operations Management division of the Academy of Management in 2001, and 

previously served as the Program Chair in 1999. 


Melissa Leithwood: I am a researcher exploring social media for social good. Before joining academia, I worked in the 

luxury lifestyle cosmetics industry for more than seven years in a management capacity at Aveda, conducted marketing 

research for a Fortune 500 pharmaceutical company, and held a post at RBC Financial Group in the Environmental Risk 

Management Group as an analyst. My research passion over the past year has been the focused on social media and 

culture. I was fortunate to have won a research grant supported by the Canadian government to study the role of social 

media networks in generating new products and markets in the goat industry. 


BSV’s director is Dr. Pratima (Tima) Bansal and its coordinator is Penni Pring. BSV’s primary audience are its faculty 

members. Over 40 Ivey faculty contribute journal articles and cases with new courses being developed yearly on 

matters pertaining to the Centre. Our secondary audiences are Ivey students and the Canadian corporate community. 

Mission: 

Ivey’s Building Sustainable Value Research Centre aims to increase the impact of research activity at Ivey. It does so by 

increasing the quality and volume of research, and ensuring that it reaches the community of practice and students. 

The Centre’s members strive to meet two objectives - research organizational issues that simultaneously build private 

and public value across the enterprise and educate students and practitioners in the corporate, non-profit and 

government sectors to understand the intersection of the private and public objectives. 


The Centre founded and hosts the Network for Business Sustainability. The Network aims to bridge the worlds of 

research and practice to advance business sustainability. It is comprised of about 2700 members, of which about 1/3 

are academics and 2/3 are managers. 


The BSV Centre will host the 5th PhD Sustainability Academy in October 2012. This event, organized by Oana 

Branzei, attracts about 15 doctoral students annually to Ivey who benefit from the experience of about 4 senior 

faculty members in the field. 

We will also be hosting our first Ivey Sustainability Conference – Theorizing Organizational Response to Systemic 

Problems in April 2012. This invitation only event brings about 15 leading academics in the field of sustainability 

together to discuss leading research, and attempting to elevate our collective understanding of sustainability issues. 

We also bring in important speakers. This academic year, for example, we brought Craig Kielburger from Me to 

We; Dr. Paul Boothe, Deputy Minister for the Environment; Ezra Levant on Ethical Oil; Andrew Telfer, Manager of 

Sustainability at Walmart; and Andreas Souvlakis of Loyalty One. 

We enjoy working closely with the students at Ivey (Ivey Connects, Ivey Sustainability Club, MBA Sustainability 

Club) who engage with a number of local charities. In 2012, the MBA students held their 2nd annual conference – 

Shifting Today for a Prosperous Tomorrow with keynote speaker, Nick Parker, Founder and Executive Chairman, The 

Cleantech Group. 

http://www.ivey.uwo.ca/sustainability/ 


Network for Business Sustainability, 

Richard Ivey School of Business, Western University and 

Université du Québec à Montréal 

London, Ontario, Canada 

Tima Bansal, Executive Director of the Network for Business Sustainability (NBS) and Director for the Building 

Sustainable Value Research Centre (BSV) will be representing. 

Marie-France Turcotte is professor at the University of Quebec at Montreal (UQAM), 

department of strategy, social and environmental responsibility. She is co-Chair on 

Social Responsibility and Sustainable Development (www.crsdd.uqam.ca) and director 

of the French office of NBS. She received a Ph.D. from the Montreal’s joint program in 

administration based at the University of Québec at Montreal. She had also previously 

obtained university degrees in communication sciences and in biology. Her academic 

work has focused on multistakeholder collaborations, corporate social and environmental 

responsibility, soft regulations mechanisms such as social and environmental certification 

schemes, as well as more generally businesses’ relations with social movements. She has 

published more than 50 articles in international academic journals, book chapters, and 

international academic conferences proceedings papers. 

Pam Laughland is Managing Director for the Network for Business Sustainability. Pam is 

responsible for managing NBS operations and ensuring sufficient funding for organizational 

activities. In her previous role as Knowledge Director, she managed NBS’ knowledge 

strategy and development on topics including the business case for sustainability; climate 

change; stakeholder engagement; socially conscious consumerism; organizational culture; 

and sustainable supply chains. Pam has been with NBS since 2008, and has held research 

positions with the Richard Ivey School of Business at Western University, Statistics Canada 

and the University of Guelph. 

Maya Fischhoff is NBS’s incoming Knowledge Director. In that role, she will develop and 

oversee NBS’s knowledge products (including systematic reviews, executive reports 

for business leaders, and applied guides and tools). Maya received her Ph.D. in 2005 

from the University of Michigan, where she studied the role of employees in corporate 

sustainability efforts. She comes to NBS from Michigan State University, where she helped 

direct the university’s Environmental Science and Policy Program. She has also worked in 

environmental non-profits, business and government. 

Barb Steele works with the NBS team to support their mission of enabling business 

sustainability by fostering collaboration between research and industry. In her 

current role she is working to improve the access and applicability of NBS research and 

tools for business leaders. Barb holds an HBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business, 

and a Masters of Science in Organizational Development and Change from Pepperdine 

University. 


Celine Fiorucci coordinates the French office’s daily activities. She works closely with 

Marie-France Turcotte to carry out the strategic objectives specific to the French office and 

supervises a team of professionals and students in sustainable development. She hold a 

master’s degree business administration specialised in strategy and corporate social and 

environmental responsibility. 

Bushra Tobah is the Business Sustainability Research Specialist at the Network for 

Business Sustainability. She also conducts sustainability research for Dr. Tima Bansal 

around time perspectives. Bushra recently completed her MSc degree at the Richard Ivey 

School of Business and will be starting her Phd in Organizational Studies at The Schulich 

School of Business in the fall. 


Chelsea Hicks: Chelsea currently holds an HBSc in Environmental Science and French and is nearing the completion 

of her Masters in Biology with Environment and Sustainability. Both degrees are from Western University, Canada. 

Although her current research focuses on freshwater pollution, her career interests are in the broader field of 

sustainability. Chelsea has taken a truly interdisciplinary approach to sustainability throughout her education, including 

being an active member of an Ecosystem Health research team and participating in several interdisciplinary courses 

and seminars related to sustainability. Outside her formal education, Chelsea has also found time to develop her 

teaching and communication skills. She was the recipient of Western University’s Great Ideas for Teaching Award in 

both 2011 and 2012. She is currently in process of completing her Certificate in University Teaching and Learning and 

has amassed a variety of teaching and communications experiences. Her experiences include university teaching, 

government communications, and outreach in both primary and high school classrooms. Following the completion 

of her Masters, Chelsea will join the team at Ivey’s NBS, a natural extension of her interest in both sustainability and 

communications. 

Mission: 

A Canadian non-profit established in 2005, the Network for Business Sustainability is a powerful and growing 

network of international academic experts and business leaders. NBS produces authoritative resources on important 

sustainability issues – with the goal of shaping management practice and research. We connect thousands of 

researchers and professionals worldwide who are interested in corporate social responsibility (CSR) and who believe in 

the value of research-based practice and practice-based research. Read more at nbs.net. 


NBS has nine staff. Our head office is London, Ontario where the Managing Director, along with knowledge specialists 

and a communications team, work from the Ivey School of Business. Ivey Professor Dr. Tima Bansal is Executive 

Director. The Director of Strategic Partnerships works from Toronto ON, and our Montreal office is headed up by 

l’Universite du Quebec Montreal Professor Dr. Marie-France Turcotte, along with two knowledge specialists. NBS 

relies on the guidance of a 15-member Advisory Board and a 17-member Leadership Council, a group of Canadian 

sustainability leaders from diverse sectors whose priorities inform NBS’s research agenda. We also appreciate the 

assistance of six Topic Editors, all highly regarded academics. 


Every year, NBS defines industry’s emergent sustainability issues with direction from our Leadership Council. We 

identify the best researchers in the world to study those issues and manage the research process to ensure findings 


are relevant and actionable for industry. We translate the academic studies into practical planning resources for 

business leaders and disseminate them worldwide – for free. These year-long systematic reviews not only provide 

opportunities for business to impact academia and vice versa, but they frame and guide further knowledge pieces 

and tools. To date, NBS has produced nine systematic reviews on sustainability challenges identified by our 

Leadership Council, including: Embedding Sustainability in Organizational Culture; Managing Sustainable Global 

Supply Chains; Developing Effective Environmental Policy; and most-recently, Decision-making for Sustainability. 

Aside from the Leadership Council, NBS has two councils: the Industry Association Council (IAC) and the Small- 

Medium-Enterprises (SME) Council. The IAC is a group of committed leaders dedicated to supporting the sustainable 

business practices of their members. NBS is creating a space for industry associations to work together on 

challenging sustainability issues. The SME Council for Sustainability is a unique initiative where leaders from industry, 

government and the public sector meet to determine small- and medium-sized enterprises’ research and action 

priorities and mobilize knowledge to meet their needs. 

In addition, NBS receives academic guidance from Topic Editors: a group of eight academic leaders in their field who 

review the world’s top scholarly journals to identify the most significant and rigorous sustainability research. NBS 

also receives strategic guidance from its Advisory Board, chaired by Gordon Lambert, Vice-President, Sustainable 

Development, Suncor Energy Inc. 

Finally, NBS hosts and participates in a number of industry events that enable sustainability researchers and 

professionals to exchange research insights and best practices. 

www.nbs.net 


Centre for Resettlement, Rehabilitation and Corporate Social 

Responsibility (CRRCSR), Xavier Institute of Management 

Bhubaneswar, India 

Dr. Subhasis Ray is co-founder and coordinator of CRRCSR and Associate Professor in the 

Marketing and Strategy area at Xavier Institute of Management (XIMB), India. Dr. Ray has 

worked with leading multinationals before joining academics. His primary research interest is 

at the intersection of business, society and sustainability. He has published articles and case 

studies and edited books on corporate social responsibility. 


Large scale industrialization in India is leading to mass displacement, raising issues related to the right model for 

resettling and rehabilitating these displaced communities, ensuring their quality of life. Simultaneously, companies 

are asked to apportion a certain percentage of profit for their CSR towards sustainable community development. 

CRRCSR was set up to address these issues. It was founded by Dr. Subhasis Ray and Dr. Latha Ravindran bringing 

together their expertise in CSR, resettlement and rehabilitation. The centre primarily targets practicing managers 

looking for actionable solutions in sustainability related issues. 

Mission: 

CRRCSR wants to be a knowledge sharing platform for researchers, managers, policy makers and civic society 

members. It promotes dialogues and research for sensitizing stakeholders on the various possibilities of integrating 

business, society and sustainability. In line with the vision of XIMB, CRRCSR promotes business with a human face, 

working for inclusive and equitable growth. 


CRRCSR has three focus areas: teaching, training and research. The Centre has launched India’s first one year 

certificate course on Management of Resettlement, Rehabilitation and Corporate Social Responsibility. The first batch 

of students finished in September 2011. On the training front, CRRCSR/XIMB are part of a consortium of five institutes 

that has been mandated by the Government of India to train more than 200 public sector organizations on the new 

CSR guidelines. On the research front, the centre co-organized the 1st National Conference on CSR: issues in 

implementation from February 9 to 11 at XIMB. It will also co-hosted the 1st International Conference on Resettlement 

and Rehabilitation from April 10 to 12, 2012 at XIMB. The centre is working with more than 15 corporations advising 

them on their R&R and CSR activities. 

www.ximb-crrcsr.tk 


Centre of Excellence in Responsible Business (COERB), 

Schulich School of Business, York University 

Toronto, Ontario, Canada 

Dr. Dirk Matten holds the Hewlett-Packard Chair in Corporate Social Responsibility and is a 

Professor of Strategy at the Schulich School of Business. He is also a Visiting Professor at 

the University of London, the University of Nottingham and at Sabancı University in Istanbul. 

His 14 books and more than 100 articles have appeared in top ranked journals and books. 

He has won numerous international awards including the Carolyn Dexter Best International 

Paper Award of the Academy of Management Conference. He was recently ranked among 

the “Top 100 CSR Leaders” in an independent poll by CSR International. 


COERB’s current director is Professor Andrew Crane. Nancy Sutherland is the Associate Director and there are 

two administrative staff members working for the centre. COERB’s academic staff consists of more than 40 faculty 

members of the Schulich School of Business. COERB has an Advisory Council of currently around a dozen leaders 

from Canadian businesses, government and NGOs. 

Mission: 

The mission of the Centre is to be a global leader in 

Creating and disseminating new knowledge about responsible business; 

Enabling and inspiring managers, policy-makers, students, academics, and consumers to integrate ethics, social 

responsibility and sustainability into the core of their decision-making processes 

Fostering a new generation of business leaders who will be equipped to chart a course towards a more just and 

sustainable society through responsible business 


Our teaching, research, executive development, and outreach activities address two main themes: 

• Ethics, integrity and responsibility in business – we make sense of the exciting new opportunities and complex 

challenges facing managers in multiple stakeholder environments. We offer thought leadership on making social 

responsibility, ethics, and good governance part of a successful and sustainable business strategy. 

• Sustainable enterprise – in striving for a sustainable future, economic goals have to be balanced with wider social 

and environmental goals. We provide robust research-based guidance on the numerous business opportunities 

and growth potential in transforming business practices towards sustainability. By focusing on the opportunities 

and risks posed by this new dynamic business environment, we offer new insight on the delivery of sustainable 

enterprise across private, public and nonprofit sectors. 

The Schulich School of Business is already a world leader in integrating ethics, social responsibility, and sustainability 

into its teaching and research programs. The school has a global reputation for its work in this area, and only a 

handful of elite institutions regularly rank alongside Schulich. In the more recent rankings, Schulich was positioned 

1st in the world by the Aspen Institute for its integration of social and environmental issues in to the curriculum and 

1st in Canada by both Aspen and Corporate Knights. 

Next to various teaching programs at all levels, COERB organizes regular talks, advises faculty on research, provides 

consulting to business and hosts a bi-weekly “Responsible Business Dialogue” speaker series. 

www.schulich.yorku.ca/coerb

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