Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 66.56
Liaison David Blodgett
Submission Date March 13, 2015
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Babson College
AC-9: Academic Research

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 12.00 / 12.00 David Blodgett
Associate Professor
Faculty
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Number of the institution’s faculty and/or staff engaged in sustainability research:
30

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Total number of the institution’s faculty and/or staff engaged in research:
115

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Number of academic departments (or the equivalent) that include at least one faculty or staff member that conducts sustainability research:
8

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The total number of academic departments (or the equivalent) that conduct research:
10

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A copy of the sustainability research inventory that includes the names and department affiliations of faculty and staff engaged in sustainability research:
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Names and department affiliations of faculty and staff engaged in sustainability research:
Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg Arts & Humanities Danielle Krcmar Arts & Humanities Fritz Fleischmann Arts & Humanities Toni Lester Accounting & Law Ross Petty Accounting & Law Virginia Soybel Accounting & Law Bradley George Entrepreneurship Mike Caslin Entrepreneurship Candida Brush Entrepreneurship Stephen Deets History & Society Xinghua Li History & Society Gaurab Bhardwaj Management James Hunt Management Dwight Gertz Management Danna Greenberg Management Vitoria Crittenden, Marketing Vikki Rodgers Math & Science Dennis Mathaisel Math & Science Kate McKone-Sweet TOIM Sinan Erzurumlu TOIM Steven Gordon TOIM

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A brief description of the methodology the institution followed to complete the research inventory:
Survey to faculty sent out via Dean of Faculty, information shown in uploaded file. Additional faculty research in sustainability found through review of publication titles and abstracts.

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A brief description of notable accomplishments during the previous three years by faculty and/or staff engaged in sustainability research:
Erzurumlu, S.S., and Y.O. Erzurumlu. 2013. Development and deployment drivers of clean technology innovations. Journal of High Technology Management Research 24(2): 100-108. Erzurumlu, S.S., and Y.O. Erzurumlu. Sustainable mining development with community using design thinking and decision analysis. Forthcoming in Resources Policy. Vikki Rodgers (Math and Science): "Towards a better integration of biological data from precipitation manipulation experiments into Earth system models" and "Pitching environmental science to business majors: Engaging students in renewable energy choices" Ross Petty: "International Advertising Law and Regulation: A Research Review and Agenda –the Devil is in the Details in Handbook of International Advertising Research, Hong Cheng ed. Chapter 20, 395-413 (Wiley - Blackwell 2014)" and "From Puffery to Penalties: A Historical Analysis of U.S. Masked Marketing Public Policy Concerns, 5(1) Journal of Historical Research in Marketing, 10-26 (2013)" Steven Gordon: "Research in progress: Fostering Social Movements with Social Media" Xinghua Li: “A Comparative Analysis of Hybrid Car Advertisements in the U.S. and China: Desire, Globalization, and the Environment”, Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture, December 2013, 7(4): 512-528. and "Environmental Advertising in China and the USA: Structures of Desire, book manuscript under contract with Routledge-Earthscan (manuscript due Feb 28, 2015)." Virginia Soybel: “Integrating Sustainability into Corporate DNA.” With Janice Bell and Robert Turner. Journal of Corporate Accounting and Finance, March/April 2012. Steven Deets: Networks and Communal Autonomy as Practice: Health, Education, and Social Welfare in Lebanon Dennis Mathaisel: "Enterprise Sustainability" and "Engineering for Sustainability" Elizabeth Goldberg: "Teaching Human Rights in Literature and Cultural Studies (book)" and "Victims, Perpetrators, and the Limits of Human Rights Discourse in Post-Palermo Fiction about Sex Trafficking (article)"

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The website URL where information about sustainability research is available:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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