ETH PhD Academy on Sustainability and Technology 2011
Climate Change Mitigation and Adaption: An Organizational Science Perspective
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January 16 - 21, 2011, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich (Switzerland)
Climate change is a major issue facing the world in the 21st century. Drastic reductions of greenhouse gas emissions are crucial for stabilizing the world’s ecosystems. The business sector needs to mitigate the sources of climate change and adapt to its effects even while both its magnitude and economic implications are uncertain. Consequently, the appropriate climate change mitigation and adaptation becomes a cornerstone of competitive strategy. The PhD-Academy is centered on these challenges from an organizational science perspective. The aim of the annual ETH PhD-Academy is to promote excellent PhD-research in the area of sustainability and technology and to develop responsible leaders for tomorrow. While the 2011 Academy again focuses on climate change, it is also open to PhD-students working on similar challenges with respect to environmental sustainability. The five days of the Academy concentrate on improving the research design and methodology of participants’ PhD-projects. We invite PhD-students with a background in strategic management, technology/innovation management, or institutional change to participate in the Academy. Besides content-related discussions, students will get valuable feedback from their peers and three professors with long-standing organizational research experience.
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Irene Henriques is a Professor of Sustainability and Economics at the Schulich School of Business, York University in Toronto, Canada. Her research interests span both economics and management and include the economics of R&D, industrial organization and environmental management, sustainability and alternative energy markets.
She has published numerous articles in journals including the American Economic Review, the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, the Strategic Management Journal and the Academy of Management Journal. Irene has served the ONE (Organizations and Natural Environment) Division of the Academy of Management in several roles, including: PDW Chair, Program Chair and Division Chair. Outside of the Academy, Irene was representative-at-large for the Strategic Management Society’s Competitive Strategy Interest Group, Chair of the Joint Public Advisory Committee of the North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation and Program Chair, Strategy Division, Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (ASAC). Irene is currently on the editorial board of the SMJ.
Irene is fluent in four languages (English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish) and loves the theatre. When not dealing with her professional responsibilities, Irene enjoys spending time in the outdoors with her husband and twin daughters.
Jim Walsh (PhD, Northwestern University) is an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and the Gerald and Esther Carey Professor of Management at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. Jim’s research interests lie in the area of corporate governance. Initially doing work within the neo-classical model of the firm, he has expanded his conception of governance to more broadly consider the purposes and accountability of the firm in society. An active research scholar, Jim is the founding co-editor of the Academy of Management Annals and an associate editor at the Strategic Management Journal. He has previously served as Senior Editor and Associate Editor-in-Chief of Organization Science and as a Consulting Editor for the Academy of Management Review. A Fellow of the Academy of Management, he is now its 65th president.
Volker Hoffmann is an associate professor for sustainability and technology at the Department of Management, Technology, and Economics of ETH Zurich.
Equipped with degrees in chemical engineering from ETH Zurich and in business administration from the University of Hagen, Germany, he worked as a visiting scholar at MIT where he investigated uncertainty propagation in large scale models. He obtained his Ph.D. from ETH Zurich with a thesis on multi-objective decision making under uncertainty. Before joining the faculty of ETH Zurich, he was a project manager at McKinsey & Company where he worked in the chemical and electricity industry. He focused on strategy development for European utility companies, especially in the light of upcoming greenhouse gas regulations.
Volker Hoffmann's research at ETH Zurich centers on corporate strategies with respect to climate change, with a focus on climate policy and innovation. Recent research results are being published in journals such as the Journal of Management Studies, Global Environmental Change, Climate Policy, Energy Policy, the Journal of Industrial Ecology, the European Management Journal, Business Strategy & the Environment, Policy Sciences, Environmental Science & Policy, and Ecological Economics.