3rd Annual ARCS Research Conference

Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
3620 Walnut St
Philadelphia
PA 19104

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May 9 – 11, 2011

The 3rd Annual ARCS Conference was sponsored by the Initiative for Global Environmental Leadership (IGEL) at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

This research conference brought together approximately 130 scholars from 72 institutions and eleven countries, representing a variety of disciplinary and methodological perspectives of those interested in advancing research on corporate sustainability. The conference was hosted by Professor Eric Orts at Wharton, with support from IGEL Associate Director Joanne Spigonardo, and the organizing committee listed below. This event follows the inaugural ARCS Conference at the University of Michigan and the 2nd Annual ARCS Conference at Harvard Business School.

The call for papers [PDF] sought submissions of unpublished working papers focused on business and sustainability issues (both social and environmental) from all disciplines and methodologies. Download the conference papers and slide presentations [PDF].

Watch a slideshow of conference photos (below) or click here to see the Picasa web album.

ARCS CONFERENCE COMMITTEE

	Tima Bansal Professor, U Western Ontario
	Lori Bennear Assistant Professor of Environmental Economics and Policy, Duke
	Marian Chertow Associate Professor of Industrial Environmental Management, Yale
	Daniel Diermeier IBM Professor of Regulation and Competitive Practice, Northwestern
	Glen Dowell Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations, Cornell
	Andy Hoffman Holcim (US) Professor of Sustainable Enterprise, U Michigan
	Andrew King Professor of Business, Dartmouth
	Mike Lenox Samuel Slover Professor of Business, U Virginia
	Tom Lyon Dow Chemical Professor of Sustainable Science, Technology and Commerce, U Michigan
	John Maxwell W. George Pinnell Professor, Indiana
	Eric Orts Guardsmark Professor, U Pennsylvania – Conference Chair
	N. Craig Smith INSEAD Chaired Professor of Ethics and Social Responsibility, INSEAD
	Mike Toffel Associate Professor of Business Administration, Harvard
	David Vogel Solomon P. Lee Chair in Business Ethics, U California-Berkeley