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11th Annual ARCS Research Conference
June 5 – 7, 2019
Hosted by University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
11th Annual Ivey/ARCS PhD Sustainability Academy
October 18 – 21, 2018
Hosted by the Ivey Business School at Western University
10th Annual ARCS Research Conference
June 11 – 13, 2018
Hosted by Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Business
CALL FOR PAPERS - ARCS 11th Annual Research Conference
The 11th Annual ARCS Research Conference will be held June 5-7, 2019 at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill. The Conference Chair is Dr. Olga Hawn, Assistant Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship and Faculty Director of the Center for Sustainable Enterprise. Click here to view/download the full Call For Papers.…
ARCS Rounds Out a Decade of Conferences
ARCS has officially rounded out a decade with the close of its 10th Annual Research Conference hosted by the MIT Sustainability Initiative at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management. This year’s conference took place June 11-13. The conference chair was John Sterman, Jay W. Forrester Professor of Management.…
The year of corporate acting—does business need a new approach to palm oil?
Amanda Williams 
Gail Whiteman 
Steve Kennedy
2018 went down as the ‘year of corporate caring’ about the palm oil controversy. A banned TV advertisement promoting a Palm Oil free Christmas by the UK supermarket Iceland went viral on social media with over 5 million views in merely a couple of weeks. Shortly after, on the south bank in London, Iceland responded…
How to Increase Public support for Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions
David J. Vogel
An important source of public support for environmental regulation are evidences of the harms caused by the inadequacy of regulation. Expansions of environment regulation have typically been driven by crises or highly visible policy failures, such as oil spills, smog, cancer clusters, and the deterioration of scenic beauty or valued ecosystems. Even when such risks…