2007 Faculty Pioneers

Linda Ginzel, from the University of Chicago - Linda Ginzel has vast faculty experience in negotiations, organizational behavior, ethical leadership and more. In 1998 her son Danny was killed in a collapsed portable crib at child care. When Ginzel and her husband learned that the crib had been recalled for five years and Danny was one of 12 children killed by the faulty design, they founded Kids In Danger, an organization dedicated to protecting children by improving children's product safety. Ginzel has integrated her passion for her work in the business school with her personal mission to protect other children. She spearheaded and edited "The Playskool Travel-Lite Crib" case which is included at CasePlace.org, McGraw-Hill's electronic publishing system, and several text books. She has twice won the James S. Kemper, Jr. Grant in Business Ethics and in 2000 won the President's Service Award for her volunteer service directed at solving critical social problems. She is a director of the Social and Behavioral Sciences Institutional Review Board (IRB) at the University of Chicago.

Roberto Gutiérrez, from the University of los Andes, has been selected as a Finalist in the External Impact category. Gutiérrez co-founded and leads the Colombian team of the Social Enterprise Knowledge Network (SEKN) since 2001, which has worked with businesses and nonprofit organizations to jointly create social and economic value. One of Roberto's qualities is to organize and lead effective working groups that integrate research, teaching and service. He has brought in 22 professors to different projects in the area of social enterprise. With a core group of five young research assistants, three of which have joined our Faculty as instructors, Roberto has written 17 academic articles and 19 teaching cases, and participated in the two collective books produced by SEKN.

David Jacobs, from Morgan State University, has been selected as a Finalist in the Institutional Impact category. This award is given for demonstrated leadership in business school or professional association activities involving social impact and/or environmental management topics, including but not limited to conferences, program design, experiential learning, mentoring, independent studies and student clubs. Professor Jacobs's scholarship demonstrates there is space for a sustainable altruism in business practice. He does not, however, accept corporate social responsibility as ordinarily conceived. Jacobs argues that corporations cannot through voluntaristic means avert harm to stakeholders; corporations are not themselves the appropriate agents of change. They are constrained by competitive pressures and discouraged from reform by business peak associations. Rather, reform networks within and without the enterprise must undertake dialogue and direct public and private power toward just bargains.

Felix Oberholzer-Gee, from Harvard University, has been selected as a Finalist in the Rising Star category Oberholzer-Gee developed a new MBA course, "Strategies Beyond the Market," encouraging students to be sensitive to social and environmental issues in diverse business situations and providing effective frameworks for them to do so in their future work as managers. Oberholzer-Gee authored 13 case studies and 2 instructional notes highlighting firm actions incorporating social, environmental, and regulatory interests; topics include global warming (UBS), fair-trade and environmental labels (Amsterdam Flower Exchange), inner city investments (Canyon Johnson Urban Fund), worker rights (Wal-Mart), and consumer protection (Goodyear). He also supervised independent study projects in the field study seminar part of his course, generating more case studies and permitting students to engage with firms developing business strategies with a social or environmental impact.

John Sterman, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has been selected as a Finalist in the Academic Leadership Award category. Sterman's research centers on improving managerial decision making in complex systems. He has pioneered the development of "management flight simulators" of corporate and economic systems. These flight simulators are now used by corporations and universities around the world. His recent research ranges from the dynamics of organizational change and the implementation of sustainable improvement programs to experimental studies assessing public understanding of global climate change.

James Walsh, from the University of Michigan, has been selected as a Finalist in the Academic Leadership Award category. Walsh has long been interested in traditional questions of corporate governance (understanding the relationship between managers and owners as mediated by the board of directors and disciplined by the market for corporate control). Recently, he has begun to consider how society figures in the governance of the firm. Walsh joined the Ross School in 1991 and teaches in the school's BBA, MBA, Executive Education and PhD programs. He also advises Multidisciplinary Action Projects and teaches in the school's MBA leadership development program. His research examines questions of corporate governance. Walsh is particularly interested in how well society is served by its business activity.

Monica Worline, from Emory University, has been selected as a Finalist in the Rising Star category. Worline's work opens the way for scholars to understand what organizational members will do things such as speak up about wrongdoing, confront authority figures, persevere on difficult tasks, and react with resilience to shocks. While much ethics research focuses on concerns removed from the field, Worline's work is grounded in the realities of work and social life. For instance, she has studied the courageous collective action aboard Flight 93 on 9/11/01, generating lessons for organizational research and practice. Her work provides a counterpoint to much of social psychology that emphasized conformity and diffusion of responsibility-identifying conditions under which people will respond to suffering and mobilize to address harm, and exploring how emotion becomes a catalyst for ethical organizing.

 

 

EABIS Finalists

 

Wendy Chapple - from Nottingham University Business School has been selected as a Finalist in the Rising Star category. She has lead the integration of CSR and played a leadership role in designing and teaching CSR modules as well as establishing business in society issues among different disciplines. Chapple is also the Director of the MA in CSR, responsible for the programme design and module development. Prior to the MBA CSR Programme launch in 2004 she designed and delivered the first Nottingham MBA CSR module. She has also integrated social, environmental and economic issues through her teaching on the MBA Core module Managerial Economics. Chapple also leads the semester length programme of extra-curricula CSR workshops organized for all MBA students and is part of the team that teaches the BA Business Ethics module. This is being integrated into the BA Management programme by being designated a compulsory third year module.

 

David Crowther - from University Leicester Business School was selected as a Finalist in the Lifetime Achievement category. Crowther has played an important role in the development of CSR teaching though the establishment of master degrees in CSR London Metropolitan University & De Montfort University and leading the Social Responsibility Research Network. He is the founding Chair of this network of around 400 scholars and practitioners from all over the world. His research interests are interdisciplinary in the areas of marketing, strategic management, accounting and organisational studies. Crowther is the author or editor of over 20 books, and has also contributed over 200 articles to academic, business and professional journals and to edited book collections in the last ten years. He is also the founding editor of Social Responsibility Journal founding editor of Social Responsibility Journal.

 

Malcolm McIntosh - from Coventry University was selected as a Finalist in the Lifetime Achievement category. McIntosh is also a visiting Professor at the Universities of Nottingham and Bath in the UK , and Stellenbosch in South Africa . Prior to his appointment as Professor of the ARCHS Centre he has been engaged as a writer, broadcaster and teacher on social partnerships, corporate citizenship, sustainability and accountability for many years. McIntosh is a true pioneer in corporate citizenship and recently in the integration of business into human peace and security through his innovative work as professor and director of the Applied Research Centre in Human Security (ARCHS), a multi-disciplinary centre that aims to clarify and elaborate the role of business in fostering peace, sustainability, and human security. Author of one of the earliest books on corporate citizenship, he was the founding-editor of the Journal of Corporate Citizenship, currently holding the role of General Editor, and Founding-Chair of envolve.co.uk, as well as Director of the Corporate Citizenship Unit at Warwick University Business School, where he created forward-looking conversations about the role of business in society. McIntosh has also served as a Special Advisor to the UN Global Compact's Secretary-General, and worked for UNEP, the ILO and UNDP and many global corporations, as well as a number of INGOs, and has been an adviser to the UK , Norwegian and Canadian governments on CSR strategy. He is also Chair of the Strategic Advisory Board to the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Bristol and a member of the European Council on Corporate Citizenship for the US Conference Board.