Thursday, Feb 08, 2024 Friday, Feb 09, 2024

Organizations and Environmental Sustainability Conference

Humankind faces a number of daunting challenges in order to attain planetary environmental sustainability. Organizations of all forms, including private firms, government agencies, academic institutions, and civil society actors, will play a central role in bringing about the needed transformations. We featured research on organizations, and their role in bringing about a more sustainable future.
Open to
Faculty

Location

Stanford University
United States

About the Sustainability Research Conference Series

The Stanford Initiative on Business and Environmental Sustainability Research Conference Series is hosted by Stanford Graduate School of Business and the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability.

Participants of this conference discussed fundamental scholarship on organizations and their role in creating a sustainable future. This scholarship could also include research on knowledge and resources that organizations will need to meet the challenges posed by climate change. We invited paper submissions that drew from diverse academic disciplines and/or from interdisciplinary research teams.

Agenda

February 8, 2024 from 1:00 pm - 7:30 pm
February 9, 2024 from 8:30 am - 4:20 pm

Full Conference Agenda

Listen as professor William P. Barnett and Stanford student Charlotte Kramer host a discussion with Dror Etzion, the Steven Grossman Endowed Chair in Sustainable Business at the University of Vermont, and Tarun Khanna, the Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at Harvard University, to discuss the takeaways from this conference.

Conference Organizers

William P. Barnett
The Thomas M. Siebel Professor of Business Leadership, Strategy, and Organizations
Professor, Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability Senior Fellow, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
Dror Etzion
Steven Grossman Endowed Chair in Sustainable Business, University of Vermont
Tarun Khanna
Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor, Director, Lakshmi Mittal & Family South Asia Institute, Harvard University