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Center for Sustainable Enterprise & Regional Competitiveness University of Massachusetts, Boston
FALL 2013 NEWSLETTER DECEMBER, 2013
Welcome to the fall 2013 SERC Newsletter! This newsletter is intended to update you on
SERC’s activities and alert you to upcoming events. For more information, please check out
the SERC website.
Thanks to all of you who have made a contribution to sustainability in the Boston region and
beyond! A special thanks to those who have attended our events, have provided various
kinds of support, subscribe to the Organizations and Social Change blog, and participate in
our educational programs.
Some notable achievements in the last six months include:
UMass Boston received a $3.1 million, five year Integrative Graduate Education and
Research Traineeship grant from the NSF to train PhDs who will apply innovative
solutions to environmental problems across disciplines and geographies.
Launching a new Sustainable Business Academy initiative to support the regional New
Economy, which encompasses encourages sustainability in the broadest sense,
including local sourcing, environmental and social policies, small and locally-owned
businesses, hybrid and B corporations, social entrepreneurs, more inclusive
governance structures, and community and ‘slow’ capital.
Gina McCarthy, a UMass Boston graduate, was approved by the Senate as Secretary
of EPA.
Several well attended events, including one with EMC’s Kathrin Winkler on IT and
sustainability, and a panel on low wage work.
We look forward to your continued support and engagement, and wish you well over the
holiday season!
David L. Levy Associate Dean of Graduate Programs and Research College of Management University of Massachusetts, Boston Director, Center for Sustainable Enterprise and Regional Competitiveness
Academia.edu [email protected]
CONTENTS
UMass Boston Awarded IGERT Grant ....................................................................................... 2
EVENT: Are Low Wages Sustainable? ...................................................................................... 3
EVENT: The Sustainability/IT Nexus .......................................................................................... 3
NEW! Certificate in Sustainable Facility Management ................................................................ 4
NEW! Sustainable Business Academy ....................................................................................... 5
UPDATE: Organizations and Social Change Blog ...................................................................... 6
UPDATE: Green Internships Program ........................................................................................ 6
Green Internships Workshop ...................................................................................................... 7
Reflections from a green internship ............................................................................................ 7
UPDATE: UMass Boston Net Impact Activities .......................................................................... 8
Business Involvement and Partnerships..................................................................................... 9
SAVE THE DATE! 2014 Green Career Forum ..........................................................................10
SERC Research & Activities .....................................................................................................10
Recent Publications by SERC Faculty ......................................................................................10
UMASS BOSTON AWARDED IGERT GRANT
By David Levy, Director SERC, Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Research
In August 2013 UMass Boston was awarded a $3.1 million, five year Integrative Graduate
Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) grant from the National Science Foundation to
train PhDs who will apply their innovative solutions to environmental problems across
disciplines and geographies. This highly competitive grant is a big vote of confidence in
UMass Boston’s capacity at the interface of environmental science, business, and policy. The
grant stems from a close collaboration between Robyn Hannigan, Dean of the School for the
Environment, Maria Ivanova, Assistant Professor of Global Governance at the McCormack
Graduate School for Policy and Global Studies, and David Levy, Associate Dean for Graduate
Studies and Research and director of SERC.
Funded over five years, the project (Coasts and Communities: Natural and Human Systems
in Urbanizing Environments), has the goal to train a new generation of professionals who can
analyze complex problems from multiple perspectives and creatively design solutions. The
management of environmental, human, and economic risks associated with sea level rise and
coastal flooding is one of the critical challenges students will tackle. Starting in September
2014, the program will welcome 8 new IGERT Fellows each year selected from the students
admitted to the PhD programs in Environmental Sciences, Environmental Biology, Global
Governance and Human Security, and Business Administration: Organizations and Social
Change. We are currently in a process of recruiting PhD students for next Fall. For more
information on the business/organizations track, please contact Richard Wong at
EVENT: ARE LOW WAGES SUSTAINABLE?
By Andrew Bishop, MBA Candidate, UMass Boston
Sustainability is not just about the natural environment, and the issue of fair wages has been
on the agenda recently. More than 100 students and faculty attended a dynamic panel
presentation organized by SERC on this topic, which featured three distinguished speakers:
Mark Popovich, Senior Program Officer at the Hitachi Foundation;
Holly Sklar, Director of Business for Fair Minimum Wage; and
Randy Albelda, Professor of Economics and Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Social Policy at UMass Boston.
The panelists discussed the changing nature of work, the challenges faced by low wage
workers including financial insecurity, lack of access to good education and lack of benefits.
This is a highly contentious topic which has been in the news recently as fast food workers
have agitated for higher pay. A recent poll found that 67% of small businesses support raising
the minimum wage and numerous studies have demonstrated that increases in the minimum
wage do not lead to job losses. We are presently in a new era of a low wages, concluded the
speakers, where we have a larger number of low wage workers (an increase from 27.5 million
in 1980 to 42.9 million in 2011). The question of sustainability here turns on whether low
wages create social upheaval and destabilize the economy. While low-wages are not yet
totally destabilizing, the speakers agreed that they have generated social responses, such as
the Occupy movements and fast-food worker walkouts. Read more about the discussion in
the event blog at: http://www.umb.edu/serc/events1.
EVENT: THE SUSTAINABILITY/IT NEXUS
By Vesela Veleva, Lecturer and Co-Director, SERC
Close to 120 students, faculty and local business representatives attended this event,
featuring Kathrin Winkler, Senior VP and Chief Sustainability Officer at EMC Corp., and
facilitated by Pratyush Bharati, Chair and Associate Professor, Management Information
Systems Dept. at UMass Boston. A global business-to-business company with operations in
80 countries, 60,000 employees and sales of $22 billion, EMC is a leading producer of both
software and hardware. In her presentation, Ms. Winkler outlined both the positive and the
negative impacts of the IT sector. She first discussed how sustainability has brought new
business opportunities to IT companies and how customers are increasingly driving such
changes. Yet, the industry still has significant environmental impacts including e-waste,
consumption of materials, energy and water, and a variety of supply chain impacts related to
work conditions, pay, and health and safety. Two more recent challenges facing the industry
include privacy and the potential misuse of products. Through the Electronic Industry
Citizenship Coalition, competitors are often collaborating to address many of these
challenges. As stated by Joel Makower of GreenBiz, “the IT is on a race to the top” in terms of
improving its sustainability performance while uncovering new business opportunities. While
sustainability jobs per se are rare today, companies like EMC believe that sustainability
education is critical for every college major as it is crucial for promoting innovation and
identifying new business opportunities.
NEW! CERTIFICATE IN SUSTAINABLE FACILITY MANAGEMENT
By Vesela Veleva, Lecturer and Co-Director SERC
In a collaboration with the College of Professional and Advanced Studies (CAPS) and the
International Facility Management Association (IFMA), SERC is launching a new Sustainable
Facility Management Certificate in March 2014 to better prepare a variety of professionals –
facility managers and coordinators, architects, designers, consultants, and LEED-certified
professionals – for more efficient management of buildings and other facilities. Participants
will gain access to guest speakers, leading practitioners, and be updated on regulations,
financing and available technical assistance. They will tackle real problems and learn how to
achieve cost savings and other financial benefits.
The Certificate program covers three main areas:
Strategy and Alignment for Sustainable Facility Management
Management of Sustainable Facilities
Operation of Sustainable Facilities Completion of the course will prepare participants for the IFMA 3-part assessment which
results in obtaining the Sustainability Facility Professional (SFP®) certification.
For more information check: http://www.umb.edu/serc/sfp_course.
NEW! SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS ACADEMY
By David Levy, Director SERC and Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Research
SERC is leading a new initiative to develop a “Sustainable Business Academy” to crystallize
the Boston-area regional community of educators, business owners and social change
leaders to support the emerging New Economy. The concept of the New Economy is inspiring
entrepreneurs, non-profits, policymakers and thought-leaders as a force for environmental
sustainability, social innovation, and regional economic growth. Aspirations for the New
Economy encompass a range of businesses and grassroots organizations that encourage
sustainability in the broadest sense, including local sourcing, environmental and social
policies, small and locally-owned businesses, hybrid and B corporations, social
entrepreneurs, more inclusive governance structures, and alternative and ‘slow’ capital.
The initiative will be housed at UMass Boston, and will engage SERC, the Entrepreneurship
Center, SCORAI - the Sustainable Consumption Research and Action Initiative
(www.scorai.org), and faculty from Clark University, Babson College, Simmons College, and
the Tellus Institute. The SBA plans to be active in several areas including:
Engagement and Research:
● Engage with local businesses and NGOs regarding the issues facing them as they
work to build sustainability into their strategies, operations and impacts, and produce
research that is both relevant to solving these issues and has theoretical implications
for the scholarly community.
● Quantify and analyze the impact of new economy businesses through research and
case studies.
Dialogue
● Develop a forum for mutual learning regarding best practices for business,
policymakers and others.
● Become a pipeline for student engagement, through projects, internship opportunities,
and jobs.
Curriculum and Lexicon Development
● Develop modules and specializations for curriculum, and share these among faculty
participating in the collaboration. Become a leading source of such information within
the Boston region and beyond.
● Pursue a Web/Technology presence that publicizes programs and research created
through the Academy.
Seminars, workshops, forums and media
● Connect international best practices with the local level through seminars, case
studies, and speakers.
● The Academy will convene forums, workshops and conferences to engage key
stakeholders and leaders.
UPDATE: ORGANIZATIONS AND SOCIAL CHANGE BLOG
By Stephan Manning, Assistant Professor, College of Management, UMass Boston College
The Organizations and Social Change (OSC) blog from the UMass Boston College of Management has continued to attract a lot of attention from scholars, students and the general public. Since the OSC blog was launched in April 2013, 32 posts and 143 comments have been posted. Users all around the world have viewed these postings about 14,000 times so far. Latest contributions include:
- - a post by Julie Nelson on the construction of firms as profit-maximizing machines by many economists;
- - a reflection by David Levy on corporate political strategy in the porn industry; - - a critical comment by Suhaib Riaz on the loss of knowledge in largely publication-driven
management research; and - - a post by Michael Johnson on the ‘end of privacy’ through modern company towns such as
Facebook’s. Most popular posts during the year 2013 include:
- - a critical reflection by Nick Stewart on the portrayal of women in Britney Spears's latest song 'Work Bitch', and
- - a post by Stephan Manning on the ‘Fashion Trap’, i.e. the question why Fairtrade-type standards seem to work fairly well in the coffee industry but not in the fashion industry. The OSC blog also introduces in detail the members of the OSC research group, including the PhD students of the UMass Boston College of Management OSC PhD track. Also, it introduces the various MBA and PhD programs running at the College of Management. Please check out the blog and consider making comments or submitting your own post (around 750 to 1,000 words) to Stephan Manning ([email protected]) who will respond on behalf of the editorial team (Ed Carberry, Suhaib Riaz, David Levy, Stephan Manning).
UPDATE: GREEN INTERNSHIPS PROGRAM
By Vesela Veleva, Lecturer and Co-Director, SERC
Green internships are an ideal way for students to obtain hands-on experience and
knowledge, develop their professional skills, and improve their ability to find an appropriate
job after graduation. Environmental skills and knowledge are increasingly valued in the
employment market. In a recent survey, 65% of businesses said they value environmental
and sustainability knowledge in job candidates and 78% said that this knowledge would grow
in importance in the next five years. In addition, clean energy jobs in Massachusetts have
grown over 11% annually over the past 2 years according to a recent MA Clean Energy
Center report.
Since it was first launched in November 2012, SERC Green Internships Program has
identified and posted over 100 environmental internships and jobs in New England area.
These range from positions at companies, government agencies, academic institutions, and
NGOs and are updated on weekly basis. The program is open to all UMass Boston students,
but is particularly appropriate for students enrolled in the Clean Energy and Sustainability
Programs, including the certificate and the MBA Environmental Management specialization.
We are currently collaborating with UMass Boston Career Services to better identify and
prepare interested students to take advantage of available internships (see next section about
Green Internships Workshop). For a list of currently available internships refer to:
www.umb.edu/serc/internships.
SERC is inviting companies and other organizations to participate in the program and send
their available green internships and jobs (please email [email protected]).
GREEN INTERNSHIPS WORKSHOP
By Matthew Power-Koch, UMass Boston Office of Career Services and Internships
On November 21, 2013, the Office of Career Services in collaboration with SERC held a
workshop focused on Green opportunities for UMass Boston students. The workshop was
put together to help better prepare our students for Green internships and job opportunities
and to ensure that they were “Career Ready”. It was in organized in response to some
feedback from SERC Board Members and Industry partners that our students need to be
better prepared with presentable professional documents (resume, cover letter). The
workshop focused on professional etiquette, how to write a proper email, the importance of
customizing your resume and cover letter to each specific opportunity, how to communicate
your top 5 skills, and how to follow up properly with potential employers. After the “Career
Ready” portion of the presentation, SERC Director David Levy and Co-Director Vesela Veleva
presented on the various Green opportunities that are presently available here at UMB. This
workshop was the first of its kind and is reflective of how our faculty and programs can work
collaboratively with The Office of Career Services and Internships, to help create a pipeline of
qualified candidates that are ready to take advantage of the growing opportunities in Green
industries.
REFLECTIONS FROM A GREEN INTERNSHIP
By Jonathan Millburg, MBA Candidate and Co-President, Graduate Net Impact Chapter, UMass Boston
It has been several weeks since I finished my internship, and after reflecting on my
experience, I thought I’d share some things that I found interesting and valuable. In sharing
this with other students (and other readers) perhaps it may encourage them to look for and
participate in internship opportunities offered here at UMass Boston or elsewhere.
I interned for a small start-up in Boston’s innovation district called Energy Compression. This
company, a member of the clean tech incubator Green Town Labs, consisted of the
founder/CTO, the CEO and myself, is focused on creating and ultimately manufacturing an air
adsorption device that will harness the potential energy of stored air, similar to a battery
storing energy, and then releases it on demand. The main difference is that batteries use
caustic materials to produce chemical energy where Energy Compression’s air storage device
uses benign, non-toxic material to store and release energy mechanically. My role at the
fledgling company was to conduct market research mainly focused on market segmentation,
customer and competitor analysis. I also compiled a library of research material that I
gathered over my four month tenure. For my final project I presented a market analysis
presentation that included the segmentation of the energy storage market, identifying Energy
Compressions target markets, the size and growth pattern of each target market and SWOT
analysis of all major competitors.
I learned a great deal, not only about how to perform market analysis, but also about the
incredible complexities of the energy grid system. The main take away was the impressive
amount of growth that is predicted to take place in the energy storage sector particularly the
rise of smart grids. One particular crop of the expansion of smart grids (and driven due to
several other reasons including the deregulation of the U.S. utility structure) is the emergence
of microgrids. This sector, according to the energy market research group SBI in its 2012
bulletin on microgrids, is predicted to expand dramatically with revenue forecasted to
quadruple by 2020 to $16 Billion and an electrical capacity of 6-7 GW in North America alone.
This is very good news for companies in the energy storage sector because microgrids are an
essential target market. It will also provide new job opportunities for students from
engineering, to management, marketing, finance and accounting.
UPDATE: UMASS BOSTON NET IMPACT ACTIVITIES
By Nicole Hamilton, President, UMass Boston Net Impact Undergraduate Chapter
The Net Impact Undergraduate Chapter hosted and co-hosted some great events this
semester, including a Q&A session with Peter DeBruin, VP of the Office of Sustainability at
State Street and the SERC Green Internship Workshop. Two members traveled all the way to
San Jose, CA to attend the annual Net Impact Conference in October 2013.
For future semesters, the chapter is planning a campus-wide sustainability forum/brainstorm,
Net Impact Case Competition, and concert to educate members about organic food and the
chemicals in the food we eat. The chapter also plans to host several smaller events with food
and drinks covering various environmental and social impact topics. Contact the Chapter
President, Nicole Hamilton, at [email protected] if you want to learn more about
Net Impact and upcoming meetings and events. Also, find the Net Impact Undergraduate
Chapter on Facebook at www.facebook.com/NetImpactUMBUndergraduate. The Chapter
works closely with the Graduate Net Impact Chapter at UMass Boston; for information and to
join the Graduate Chapter contact Jonathan Millburg at [email protected].
BUSINESS INVOLVEMENT AND PARTNERSHIPS
By Vesela Veleva, Sc.D., Lecturer and Co-Director SERC
Companies have an important role to play in sustainability programs today helping to better
prepare students for future career opportunities by advancing their practical knowledge and
skills to tackle complex sustainability challenges. SERC is involved in fostering a variety of
partnerships with local companies and organizations, from guest speakers, to internships,
class projects, events, and research, among others.
In Fall 2013 guest speakers included:
Charlie Myers, President, Massachusetts Hydrogen Association, discussed the
challenges and opportunities with fuel cells and the growing number of applications
from automobiles to buildings;
Don Delikat, Industrial Hygiene Consultant, OSHA Consultation Program,
discussed the business case for improving occupational health and safety in small
establishments, and focused in particular on nursing homes in Massachusetts, one of
the sectors with the highest rate of non-fatal injuries and illnesses;
Rebecca Kaiser, Chief of Staff, Spaulding Rehabilitation Network & Partners
Continuing Care, provided an overview of the Affordable Care Act, as well as the
Massachusetts Health Reform and the main challenges and opportunities from the
new policies.
As part of his independent study on tidal energy, Mark Gallo, a graduate student pursuing his
certificate in Clean Energy and Sustainability, conducted an interview with John Ferland,
Vice President of Project Development at Ocean Renewable Power Company (the
company is currently building the first commercial, grid-connected tidal power system in the
U.S. in the Bay of Fundy, Maine).
In partnership with the New England Clean Energy Council (NE CEC) SERC faculty has
developed two surveys of clean tech companies. The first one aims to examine the role that
educational institutions such as UMass Boston and SERC can play in supporting the industry;
the second one, to examine the factors behind clean tech cluster development, including
supportive policies, supply-chain collaboration, and availability of educated workforce, among
others. SERC also participated with an information table in the Global Clean Tech Meet Up in
November 2013, seeking further opportunities for student internships and other industry
collaborations.
In Spring 2013 we will continue to seek companies’ involvement in our educational programs
and research. In addition to guest speakers and research, we will be launching case
competition jointly with Net Impact, and a Fellowship Program. If you are interested in
participating, please contact SERC Co-Director Vesela Veleva at [email protected].
SAVE THE DATE! 2014 GREEN CAREER FORUM
In Spring 2014 SERC will organize the annual Green Career Forum, providing students with
the opportunity to learn more about the environmental and sustainability field, hear from
alumni and talk with a variety of local employers. The event will be held on April 16, 2014,
from 4 pm until 6 pm at UMass Boston Campus Center. This year we are also planning a
presentation from the Bureau of Labor Statistics Green Jobs Initiative, which will include
information about the numbers and trends over time in green jobs, their industrial, geographic
and occupational distribution, and the wages of workers in such jobs. Companies and other
organizations interested in participating in the event can contact SERC Co-Director Vesela
Veleva at [email protected]. Information about last year’s Green Career Forum is
available on the SERC website at: http://www.umb.edu/serc/events1. More information about
the 2014 Green Career Forum and other upcoming events is available at
http://www.umb.edu/serc/upcoming_events.
SERC RESEARCH & ACTIVITIES
SERC faculty engages in research projects with the aim of exploring the business-
sustainability interface and providing businesses and policy makers with a solid foundation for
long-term strategic decisions. Our faculty undertakes research that encompasses everything
from accounting and finance issues associated with climate risk to sustainability standards to
organizational challenges of combining economic and social values and goals. We have
recently initiated new research projects on planning and adaptation for coastal flooding risks,
and on the development of regional clean-tech clusters within global value chains. A (partial)
list of recent publications is below. For more information, please check out the SERC
website.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS BY SERC FACULTY (SELECTED)
Bates, M., Jones, E., Keisler, J., Linkov, I. (2013). Risky Removal: Understanding the Risk
of Redeveloping Military Sites Contaminated with Unexploded Ordinance. Environmental
Science & Technology (47).
Bulkeley, H., Andonova, L., Bäckstrand, K., Betsill, M., Compagnon, D., Duffy, R., Kolk, A., Hoffmann, M., Levy, D., & Newell, P. (2012). Governing climate change transnationally: assessing the evidence from a database of sixty initiatives. Environment and Planning C, 30(4): 591. Connors, E., Gao L.S. and H.H. Johnston, “The Informational value of Toxics Release
Inventory Performance”, Sustainability Accounting, Management and Policy Journal,
forthcoming 2012.
Connors, E., Johnston, H., Gao, L. (2013). The Informational value of Toxics Release
Inventory Performance. Sustainability Accounting, Management and Policy Journal, 24(1),
32-55.
Chen, L. and L.S. Gao, “The Pricing of Climate Risk”, Journal of Financial and Economic Practice, Spring 2012, Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 130-146. Gao, L.S. “Disclosure of Environmental Capital Expenditures: Evidence from the Electric Utility Sector in the U.S.”, Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, July/August 2012, Vol. 19, No. 4, pp. 240-252. Haigh, N.L. & Hoffman, A.J. 2012. Hybrid Organizations: The Next Chapter of Sustainable Business. Organizational Dynamics. 41(2): 126–134. Haigh, N.L. & Griffiths, A. 2012. Surprise as a Catalyst for Including Climatic Change in the Strategic Environment. Business & Society. 51(1): 89-120. Haigh, N.L. & Griffiths, A. Success, Failure, and Small Wins: Explaining The use of Eco-innovation to address Labor Discord. 2012. Academy of Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Macau, China, 8-10 June. Hamilton, M., J. Lambert, J. Keisler, I. Linkov, and F. Holcomb. Research and Development Priorities for Energy Islanding of Military and Industrial Installations. Journal of Infrastructure Systems. In Press. doi: 10.1061/(ASCE)IS.1943-555X.0000133 Hoffman, A.J., Badiane, K.K. & Haigh, N.L. 2012. Hybrid Organizations as Agents of Positive Social Change: Bridging the For-Profit & Non-Profit Divide. In K. Golden-Biddle and J. Dutton (Eds.) Using a Positive Lens to Explore Social Change and Organizations: Building a Theoretical and Research Foundation. 131-153. Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group. Ivanova M. (2012) “The contested legacy of Rio+20” Guest Article # 16 International Institute for Sustainable Development. Sept. 20, 2012. Available at: http://uncsd.iisd.org/guest-articles/the-contested-legacy-of-rio20/ Ivanova M. (2012). A New Global Architecture for Sustainability Governance State of the World 2012: Moving toward sustainable prosperity (pp. 104-117). Washington D.C.: Worldwatch Institute. Ivanova M. (2012). Institutional design and UNEP reform: historical insights on form, function and financing. International Affairs, 88(3), 565-584. Lavine, M. 2013. Exploring the Relationship between Corporate Social Performance and Work Meaningfulness, Journal of Corporate Citizenship
Levy, D., Spicer, A. (2013). Contested Imaginaries and the Cultural Political Economy of
Climate Change. Organization, 20(5), 659-678.
Levy, David L. (2012) Private actors and strategies in global environmental governance: The role of information disclosure. In Peter Dauvergne, ed., Handbook of Global
Environmental Politics (2nd edition). London: Edward Elgar. Pp.308-318 Linkov, I., M. Bates, J. Keisler, B. Trump, M. Chappel, T. Seager. For Nanotechnology Decisions, Use Decision Analysis. Nanotechnology Today. In Press. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nantod.2012.10.002 Lichtenstein. Complexity Science Insights into the Electrical Transmission Planning Process: Options for Integrating Renewable Energy into the Grid. 2012. B. Proceedings to the NSF Organizational Sciences Workshop on Electricity Transmission Planning. Center for Advanced Energy Studies’ (CAES), Boise State University, April 2012 Lu, Q.; Song, G.; Jasinski, J. P.; Keeley, A. C.; Zhang, W. “One-pot double [3+2] Cycloaddition for Diastereoselective Synthesis of Tetracyclic Pyrrolidine Compounds” Green Chem. 2012, 14, 3010-3012. Manning, S., Boons, F., Von Hagen, O., Reinecke, J. 2012. “National Contexts Matter: The Co-Evolution of Sustainability Standards in Global Value Chains”. Ecological Economics, 83, 197-209. McKelvey, B. Lichtenstein & P. Andriani. When Organizations and Ecosystems Interact: Toward a Law of Requisite Fractality in Firms, 2012. International Journal of Complexity in Leadership and Management. (in press) Reinecke, J., Manning, S., Von Hagen, O. 2012. “Emerging Standards Markets: Multiplicity of Sustainability Standards in the Global Coffee Industry”. Organization Studies, 33 (5/6), 789-812. Rothenberg, Sandra, and Levy, David (2012) Corporate Perceptions of Climate Science: The Role of Corporate Environmental Scientists. Business and Society, 51(1): 31-61. Tourki, Y., J. Keisler, I. Linkov, Scenario Analysis in the 21st Century: A literature review of method and application. Environment Systems and Decisions 32(1), March 2013. Tourki, Y., Keisler, J., Linkov, I. (2013). Scenario Analysis in the 21st Century: A literature
review of method and application. Environment Systems & Decision, 33(1), 3-20.
Veleva V., Parker S., Lee A. and C. Pinney, “Measuring the business impact of community
involvement: The case of volunteering at UL”, Business & Society Review, Vol. 117, Issue
1, pp. 123-142, Spring 2012.
Veleva V., Montanari A., Clabby P., and J. Lese, “PerkinElmer: Strategies for Old Instrument Reuse and Recycling”, Richard Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario, Canada, January 2013, Case #9B12M115. Wittneben, B. B. F., Okereke, C., Banerjee, S. B., & Levy, D. Levy. (2012). Climate Change and the Emergence of New Organizational Landscapes. Organization Studies, 33(11): 1431-1450 Xie, G., Cavallero, A. P. & Cheng, M. (2013). Reluctant for a reason? A persuasion
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Communications for the Emerging Green Economy (pp. 141 -157), New York: M.E.
Sharpe.
Xie, G., Kronrod, A. (2013). The devil is in details: The signaling effect of numerical
precision in green advertising. Journal of Advertising.
Yi, W.-B.; Huang, X.; Zhang, Z.; Zhu, D.-Z.; Cai, C.; Zhang, W. “Recyclable Fluorous Cinchona Alkaloid Ester as an Organocatalyst for Asymmetric Fluorination of b-Ketoesters” Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2012, 8, 1233-1240. Yi, W.-B., Shi, X.-L., Cai, C., Zhang, W. “Polymer-supported Pd(0) Catalyst for Copper- and Ligand-free Sonogashira Reactions in Aqueous Media” Green Processing and Synth. 2012, 1, 175-180. Yi, W.-B.; Huang, X.; Cai, C.; Zhang, W. “One-Pot Fluorination Followed by Michael Addition or Robinson Annulation for Preparation of a-Fluorinated Carbonyl Compounds” Green Chem. 2012, 14, 3185-3189. Zhang, W. “Laboratory profile of the Green Organic and Medicinal Chemistry at the University of Massachusetts Boston” Green Processing and Synth. 2012, 1, 291-293. Zhang, W. “Fluorous Synthesis” book chapter in Green Techniques for Organic Synthesis and Medicinal Chemistry, Zhang, W.; Cue, B. W. Eds., Wiley, Chichester, 2012, p443-468. Zhou, Q., J. Lambert, C. Karvetski, J. Keisler and I. Linkov, Diversification of flood protection assets for reducing risk of extreme and catastrophic flood losses. Risk Analysis 31(11):1873-1887, November 2012. Zurawicki L. and M. Habib (2013), Socially responsible cooperation between the
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