This was the 2^nd annual conference of the Alliance for Research on Corporate Sustainability (ARCS), a consortium of universities that share a strong commitment to research on business and sustainability. The conference brought together scholars from a variety of disciplinary and methodological perspectives interested in advancing research on corporate sustainability, and was hosted by Professor Michael Toffel with the support of ARCS Managing Director Erika Herz and the organizing committee listed below. This event followed the inaugural ARCS conference at University of Michigan that was held a year earlier, in May 2009. The call for papers sought submissions of unpublished working papers focused on business and sustainability issues (both social and environmental) from all disciplines and methodologies.

ARCS Program Committee:

• Mike Toffel, Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Harvard -- Conference Chair
• Tima Bansal, Professor, U Western Ontario
• Lori Bennear, Assistant Professor of Environmental Economics and Policy, Duke
• Glen Dowell, Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations, Cornell
• Dan Esty, Hillhouse Professor of Environmental Law and Policy, Yale
• Andy Hoffman, Holcim (US) Professor of Sustainable Enterprise, U Michigan
• Andrew King, Associate Professor of Business, Dartmouth
• Mike Lenox, Samuel Slover Professor of Business, U Virginia
• Tom Lyon, Dow Chemical Professor of Sustainable Science, Technology and Commerce, U Michigan
• John Maxwell, W. George Pinnell Professor, Indiana
• Eric Orts, Guardsmark Professor, U Pennsylvania