Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 54.88
Liaison David Blodgett
Submission Date April 20, 2012
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Babson College
ER-16: Faculty Engaged in Sustainability Research

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 10.00 / 10.00 David Blodgett
Associate Professor
Faculty
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The number of faculty members engaged in sustainability research:
30

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The total number of faculty members engaged in research:
115

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Names and department affiliations of faculty engaged in sustainability research:
2011: In our internal survey on sustainability on campus, to the question: "In this section we want to learn about your research on environmental and social sustainability.Are you engaged in sustainability, environmental or social responsibility themed research?" 30 faculty members responded positively out of 92 respondents. Julie Levinson A&H Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg AH Mary Pinard Arts & Humanities Brian Seitz Arts & Humanities 1 Danielle Krcmar Arts and Humanities 1 Beth Wynstra Arts and Humanities 1 Jan Bell Accounting & LAW 1 Tony Wain Accounting & Law 1 Ross Petty Accounting Law 1 Bradley George Entrepreneurship 1 Caroline Daniels Entrepreneurship 1 Mike Caslin Entrepreneurship Candida Brush EPS Mary Godwyn HIstory and Society Stephen Deets History and Society Xinghua Li History and Society Gaurab Bhardwaj Management James Hunt Management Dwight Gertz Management Danna Greenberg management Jean-Pierre Jeannet Marketing/Glavin Center Vikki Rodgers Math and Science Chuck Winrich Math/Science Dennis Mathaisel Math/Science Marty Anderson TOIM Kate McKone-Sweet TOIM Sinan Erzurumlu TOIM 2010: Allen I.E. Math & Science Bell J Accounting Brush C Entrepreneurial DiCarlo L Entrepreneurial Erzurumlu Sinan Tech OPs & Info Mgmt Friedlander Entrepreneurial Gai Y Economics Godwyn M History & Society Goldberg E.S. Arts & Humanities Greenberg D.N. Management Harris N Economics Hotchkiss C Accounting Jones K Economics Kelley Donna Entrepreneurial Lester T Accounting Marram Ed Entrepreneurial McKone-Sweet K Tech OPs & Info Mgmt Neck H Entrepreneurial Rademacher V Arts & Humanities Rice M Entrepreneurial Rodgers V Math & Science Stoddard D Tech OPs & Info Mgmt Whitman J Entrepreneurial Zacharakis A Entrepreneurial

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The website URL where the sustainability research inventory that includes the names and department affiliations of faculty engaged in sustainability research is posted :
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A copy of the sustainability research inventory that includes the names and department affiliations of faculty engaged in sustainability research:
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Brief descriptions of up to 4 recent notable accomplishments by faculty engaged in sustainability research, including names and department affiliations:
Candida Brush (Entrepreneurship) Feb. 2002 “Stakeholder Influence Strategies of New Ventures and their Value Outcomes”, with Dr. Radha Chaganti, / Dr. Cengiz Haksever, & Dr. Ronald Cook, Proceedings of the United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship Conference (USASBE), Las Vegas, NV Winner of Best Conceptual Paper Award / / Jan. 2009 “The Landscape of Social Entrepreneurship” with Dr. Heidi Neck and Dr. Elaine Allen, Business / Horizons, 52:1, 13-19 / / Meyskens, M., Brush, C. & Allen, E. (2011) Hybrid Ventures and Human Capital, in Lumpkin, T. (ed) Volume 13, Advances in Entrepreneurship Research, Firm Emergence and Growth, Emerald Publishing: UK Sinan Erzurumlu (TOIM) S. Sinan Erzurumlu, Nitin Joglekar, and Fehmi Tanrisever. August 2011. “Operational Hedging Strategies to Overcome Financial Constraints for Clean Technology Startups” in Advanced Analytics for Green and Sustainable Development: Supply Chain Models and Financial Technologies edited by Z. Luo. Vikki Rodgers (Math and Science): Lester, T and VL Rodgers. 2011. Beyond Green: Encouraging students to create a simultaneity of positive SEERS outcomes In: The New Entrepreneurial Leader: Developing Leaders Who Shape Social and Economic Opportunity D Greenberg, K McKone-Sweet, HJ Wilson (eds). / / Finzi, AC and VL Rodgers. 2009. Bottom-up rather than top-down processes regulate the abundance and activity of nitrogen fixing plants. Biogeochemistry 95(2-3): 309-321. / / Gallet-Budynek, A, E Brzostek, VL Rodgers, JM Talbot, S Hyzy, and AC Finzi. 2009. Contribution of organic and inorganic N sources to root uptake in two intact temperate forest soils. Oecologia 160(1): 129-138. / / Dukes, J, J Pontius, D Orwig, G Warren, B Cooke, N Brazee, M Ayers, R Harrington, V Rodgers, K Theoharides, M Lerdau, R Wick, J Ehrenfeld, J Gurevitch, E Stange, and K Stinson. 2009. The responses of pests, pathogens and invasive species to climate change in the forests of Northeastern North America: What can we predict? Canadian Journal of Forest Research 39: 231-248. / / Rodgers, VL, BE Wolfe, LK Werden and AC Finzi. 2008. The invasive species Alliaria petiolata (garlic mustard) increases soil nutrient availability in northern hardwood-conifer forests. Oecologia 157: 455-471. / / Wolfe, BE, VL Rodgers, KA Stinson, and A Pringle. 2008. The invasive plant Alliaria petiolata (garlic mustard) inhibits ectomycorrhizal fungi in its introduced range. Journal of Ecology 96: 777-783. / / Rodgers, VL, KA Stinson, and AC Finzi. 2008. Ready or not, garlic mustard is moving in: Alliaria petiolata as a member of eastern deciduous forests. BioScience 58(5): 426-436. / Danna Greenberg (Management) and Kate McKone-Sweet (TOIM): The New Entrepreneurial Leader. 2011. Berrett-Koehler.

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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
Figure for Total Number of Faculty Engaged in Research is for 2009 and partial 2010(note: exc. h/t, vst, naq, adm, ntt) This inventory will be made available on the new Babson website planned to launch in Spring 2011.

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