Alliance for Research on Corporate Sustainability
ARCS serves as a vehicle for advancing rigorous academic research on corporate sustainability issues.
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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
Understanding & Overcoming Roadblocks to Sustainability
June 14, 2018
Hosted by Harvard Business School
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.…
ARCS Statement on Business Leadership & Climate Change
As business scholars, we feel compelled to counter two assertions about business and climate change, and to call for a new vision for what it means to be a sustainable business. The first false claim that has been made is that the overall social cost of responding to climate change…
When corporations take credit for green deeds their lobbying may tell another story
Thomas Lyon 
Magali Delmas
Today most large companies like Exxon Mobil, Ford and GM issue slick reports extolling their efforts to conserve resources, use renewable energy or fund clean water supplies in developing countries. This emphasis on efforts to curb environmental harm while benefiting society is called corporate sustainability. Once uncommon but now mainstream, this show of support for a greener and…
System Change Investing – A New SRI Paradigm
Frank Dixon
System Change Investing (SCI) shifts the focus of ESG research and Sustainable/Responsible Investing (SRI) from company change to system change. It is the most significant SRI transformation in 20 years. SCI funds can provide superior financial returns, highest possible sustainability benefits and market leadership positioning. They have strong potential to capture a substantial share of…