|
Ivey
Business School joins Tuck, Duke &
Harvard in alliance
LONDON,
ON, June 10, 2009 - As environmental
issues have grown in complexity and
scope, there is growing interest from
both the public and private sectors in
corporate sustainability – the creation
of viable business enterprises operated
in a manner that protects the natural
environment, and future economic and
societal development.
To
accelerate the advancement of knowledge
on corporate sustainability, a diverse
coalition of schools and institutions at
leading universities has formed the
Alliance for Research on Corporate
Sustainability (ARCS).
Founding
ARCS members include University of
Western Ontario's Richard Ivey School of
Business, Dartmouth University's Tuck
School of Business, Duke University's
Nicholas School of the Environment,
Harvard University's Center for the
Environment, the University of
Michigan's Ross School of Business and
the University of Virginia's Darden
School of Business.
"We are
excited to be forming such an important
alliance with such a great group of
universities," said Tima Bansal,
professor, Richard Ivey School of
Business. "It's crucial for universities
to work with business leaders and to
provide practitioners and students with
the knowledge, tools and capabilities to
manage both private and public interests
effectively through organizational
actions. This alliance extends our
present efforts in developing Canada's
Research Network for Business
Sustainability to now reach outside of
Canada into the US."
"Solutions
to our most pressing environmental
problems will require the proactive
engagement and leadership of the
business sector," said Michael Lenox,
Faculty Director of ARCS and Samuel L.
Slover Professor of Business at the
Darden School of Business. "ARCS'
mission is to advance rigorous academic
research on corporate sustainability
issues. Our members' research develops
greater understanding of the
opportunities and limits of public
policies and business strategies to
create sustainable businesses," he adds.
ARCS'
approach is to facilitate interaction
among academic researchers investigating
corporate sustainability issues and to
provide resources to aid their research.
ARCS will co-sponsor a Sustainability
Academy at the Richard Ivey School of
Business for doctoral students on
October 22-27, 2009.
One of the
signature events of ARCS is an annual
conference bringing together top
researchers in the field to share their
research. The first annual ARCS
Conference was hosted by the Erb
Institute for Global Sustainable
Enterprise at the University of Michigan
on May 7-9, 2009.
"We are
also looking to build a broad portfolio
of resources for researchers," says
Erika Herz, Managing Director of ARCS.
Projects under development include a
downloadable database on corporate
environmental performance metrics, a
searchable database of research articles
on corporate sustainability, as well as
research news, blogs and video
interviews with leading scholars. ARCS
is also the home to
MapEcos.org, a web tool offering
detailed, facility-level data on
environmental performance and
management.
About the Richard Ivey School of
Business, The University of Western
Ontario
The Richard Ivey School of Business at
The University of Western Ontario (www.ivey.ca)
offers undergraduate (HBA)
and graduate degree programs (MBA,
Executive MBA and
PhD) in addition to non-degree
Executive Development programs. Ivey has
campuses in London (Ontario),
Toronto, and Hong Kong. Ivey
recently redesigned its curriculum to
focus on
Cross-Enterprise Leadership "" a
holistic issues-based approach to
management education that meets the
demands of today's complex global
business world.
-30-
For more
information, please contact:
Dawn Milne, Communications Specialist,
Richard Ivey School of Business,
519-850-2536,
dmilne@ivey.ca
|
