Alliance for Research on Corporate Sustainability
Alliance for Research on Corporate Sustainability
Conference Program
May 12
5:45 pm | Optional shuttle from the Hilton Doubletree Guest Suites Boston hotel to Harvard Faculty Clubor a pleasant 1 mile walkHarvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA (near Harvard Square) |
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6:00 - 7:00 pm | Welcome Reception |
7:00 - 9:30 pm | Dinner with Keynote SpeakerPost-Copenhagen climate policy and its impact on business |
9:30 pm | Optional shuttle from Harvard Faculty Club to the Hilton Doubletree Guest Suites Boston hotel |
May 13
7:30 am | Optional shuttle from the Hilton Doubletree Guest Suites Boston hotel to Harvard Business SchoolHBS Hawes Hall, Room 101 |
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7:30 - 8:00 am | Continental breakfastHBS Hawes Hall, Room 101 |
8:00 - 8:30 | IntroductionsMike Toffel (Harvard) and Mike Lenox (Virginia)HBS Hawes Hall, Room 101 |
8:30 - 10:00 | Paper Session 1: Corporate GovernanceChair: Andrew King (Dartmouth) Micro-processes of positive organizational deviance: The board of directors as a sense-making filter Social responsibility of business beyond profits HBS Hawes Hall, Room 101 |
10:00 - 10:15 | Research SketchesResearch sketches are short presentations (4 minutes) where presenters sketch their research question and approach and present some central findings, using either no slides or at most two slides. They are scheduled to encourage informal discussions during the breaks that immediately follow. † indicates research that will also be presented in the poster session on Thursday evening. † The cross-national transfer of low-income business models: Institutions and the global growth of commercial microfinance, 1998-2007 † Embeddedness of environmental cultural change in a multinational corporation † Corporate social responsibility and shareholder wealth - A longitudinal mixed-models analysis (poster) † Consumer perceptions of corporate responsibility activities: The CSR halo effect HBS Hawes Hall, Room 101 |
10:15 - 10:45 | BreakHBS Hawes Hall, Room 101 |
10:45 - 12:15 | Paper Session 2: Non-market StrategyChair: Eric Orts (Penn) Interstate externalities and corporate environmental performance in the electric utility sector Corruption and environmental standard certification: The countervailing impacts of policy-specific and general corruption HBS Hawes Hall, Room 101 |
12:15 - 12:30 | Research Sketches† Benefiting from social innovation: Implications for sustainability, organizing and public policy Strategic alternatives and influence opportunities: When managers expect to benefit from public policy † Policy drivers of the direction of innovative activity: An examination of renewable energy incentives in driving innovation † Environmental institutions in emerging markets: How effective are they? HBS Hawes Hall, Room 101 |
12:30 - 1:30 | Lunch |
1:30 - 3:00 | Paper Session 3: Divergent PerspectivesChair: John Maxwell (Indiana) Sense and sensibility: Testing the effects of attention structures and organizational attention on financial performance Is leasing greener than selling? HBS Hawes Hall, Room 101 |
3:00 - 3:15 | Research SketchesISO 9000 systems as a mediator between international and domestic pressures and the adoption of proactive environmental practices by Chinese firms Whether it's green or brown, buy local: Exploring the acquisition choice of manufacturing firms The role of motivation on environmentally driven operations performance Key drivers in the market for remanufactured products: Empirical evidence from eBay HBS Hawes Hall, Room 101 |
3:15 - 3:45 | Break |
3:45 - 5:15 | Paper Session 4: Operations and Supply Chain ManagementChair: Glen Dowell (Cornell) Efficiency meets responsibility: Configuring an accountable and responsible supply chain Competition under product take-back laws: Individual or collective systems? HBS Hawes Hall, Room 101 |
5:15 - 5:30 | BreakHBS Hawes Hall, Room 101 |
5:30 - 6:30 HBS Spangler Hall, Williams Room |
Poster Session & ReceptionThe poster session will feature work by the following individuals, in addition to those indicated with † in the Research Sketches. External stakeholder engagement: Transforming corporate social responsibility from principled rhetoric to theoretically grounded practice
From Green to Clean: Industry emergence and the institutional framing of cleantech in North America
Legitimacy in the solar energy sector: The role of entrepreneurs and environmental organizations
Red-blooded aliens: A re-examination of foreign firms' corporate environmental performance
Are members of Business for Social Responsibility more responsible?
Policy drivers of the direction of innovative activity: An examination of renewable energy incentives in driving innovation
HBS Hawes Hall, Room 101 |
6:30 - 8:30 pm HBS Spangler Hall, Williams Room |
Dinner with Keynote SpeakerIntroduction: Andrew King (Dartmouth) Keynote speaker: Auden Schendler, Executive Director of Sustainability, Aspen Skiing Company HBS Hawes Hall, Room 101 |
8:30 pm | Optional shuttle from Harvard Business School to the Hilton Doubletree Guest Suites Boston hotelHBS Hawes Hall, Room 101 |
May 14
7:30 am | Optional shuttle from the Hilton Doubletree Guest Suites Boston hotel to Harvard Business SchoolHBS Hawes Hall, Room 101 |
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7:30 - 8:30 am | Continental breakfastHBS Hawes Hall, Room 101 |
8:30 - 10:00 | Paper Session 5: Institutional and Social ProcessesChair: Tima Bansal (Western Ontario) The evolution of corporate sustainability agendas: An interaction ritual perspective Dialogue and field-level organizing for sustainability HBS Hawes Hall, Room 101 |
10:00 - 10:15 | Research SketchesA triptych inquiry: Rethinking sustainability, innovation and financial performance Collective environmental advantage: Toward a theory of industrial symbiosis † The "chemical commons" problem: Are firms that use the same toxic chemical bound to a shared fate? An industry level view of environmental performance HBS Hawes Hall, Room 101 |
10:15 - 10:45 | BreakHBS Hawes Hall, Room 101 |
10:45 - 12:15 | Paper Session 6: Information Disclosure and ValuationChair: Lori Bennear (Duke) Sustainability and the dynamics of green building News media as a channel of environmental information disclosure: Evidence from an EGARCH Approach HBS Hawes Hall, Room 101 |
12:15 - 1:00 | LunchHBS Hawes Hall, Room 101 |
1:00 - 2:30 | Paper Session 7: Industrial Symbiosis -- Coordination Within and Between FirmsChair: Tom Lyon (Michigan) Turning waste into by-product Building a network: Processes and consequences of network orchestration HBS Hawes Hall, Room 101 |
2:30 - 2:45 | Concluding RemarksHBS Hawes Hall, Room 101 |
3:00 pm | Optional shuttle from Harvard Business School the Hilton Doubletree Guest Suites Boston hotelHBS Hawes Hall, Room 101 |