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Business Strategies for Environmental Sustainability

2009 Dates: October 25-31
Application Deadline: September 14, 2009
Program Tuition: $9,200 USD
*Additional funding for applicants from nonprofit/education/government organizations available on a limited basis.
Location: Stanford Sierra Conference Center

Faculty Director

  William P. Barnett
Thomas M. Siebel Professor of Business Leadership, Strategy, and Organizations; Senior Fellow, Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford; Director of the Center for Global Business and the Economy

William Barnett studies competition among organizations and how organizations and industries evolve over time. He has studied how strategic differences and strategic change among organizations affect their growth, performance, and survival. This research includes empirical studies of technical, regulatory, and ideological changes among organizations, and how these changes affect competitiveness over time and across markets. His studies span a range of industries and contexts, including organizations in computers, telecommunications, research and development, software, semiconductors, disk drives, newspaper publishing, beer brewing, banking, and environmental concerns. [View Profile]

Other Stanford Faculty

  Hau L. Lee
Thoma Professor of Operations, Information, and Technology; Director the Strategies and Leadership in Supply Chains Executive Program; Director of the Stanford Global Supply Chain Management Forum; Graduate School of Business Trust Faculty Fellow for 2007-08

Hau Lee’s research focuses on supply chain management, work that addresses how to get products or services to their destination by managing the flow of materials, information, and money. His research has resulted, among other things, in the building of computer models for industrial implementation, as well as in the development of strategies and operational concepts for practitioners.[View Profile]

  Erica L. Plambeck
Associate Professor of Operations, Information, and Technology, Stanford Graduate School of Business; Fellow (by courtesy), Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford

Erica Plambeck is an expert in manufacturing operations and supply chain management, and her current research focuses on environmental sustainability. [View Profile]

  Kenneth Shotts
Associate Professor of Political Economy

Ken Shotts uses game theory to analyze how electoral rules structure voters’ influence on policy choices made by elected officials. He has published papers on a wide variety of topics, including presidential leadership, racial redistricting, term limits, signaling in repeated elections, statistical methodology, and the 2000 election controversy in Florida. [View Profile]

  Jesper B. Sorensen
Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior, Associate Professor of Sociology (by courtesy), School of Humanities and Sciences

Jesper B. Sørensen specializes in the dynamics of organizational and strategic change, and their implications for individuals and their careers. His research on firm outcomes has focused on the impact of organizational structure and culture on organizational learning, performance and innovation. His work of the dynamics of teams has led to new insights concerning how people respond to changes in the racial composition of their workgroups. Currently, Sørensen is engaged in a large-scale project on the determinants of entrepreneurial behavior that examines several previously unanswered questions, such as how work environments shape rates of entrepreneurship.  [View Profile]

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