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Hi Everyone,

We wanted to draw your attention to symposium to be featured on this year's <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">All</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Academy</st1:placetype></st1:place> program that we hope will be really informative and inspirational.  It will feature Peter Senge, Sanjeev Khagram, Malcolm McIntosh, Sandra Waddock and Erica Steckler, and Benyamin Lichtenstein entitled "Green Matters:  Shaping and Sustaining a New Vision of the Future."  It will be held on Sunday from 11:30-1:00 in the Hyatt Regency Grand (Ballroom) C.  Below is a short abstract of the symposium.  Hope to see you there!

Abstract

Greening, and its counterpart sustainability, matter in today's complex and dynamic world more than ever as we face population explosion, dramatic economic failures, growing global inequity, and potentially calamitous global warming.  This symposium will attempt to develop a synthetic perspective on what is needed to effect the radical system change that is needed to move our societies toward sustainable enterprise-and sustainability for human beings.  It brings together a set of distinguished panelists, working at different levels of analysis, all of which cross level of analysis and organizational boundaries, to discuss their work:  individual, organizational, interorganizational, and societal.   

Peter Senge, founder of the Society for Organizational Learning and faculty member at MIT, co-author of the recent book The Necessary Revolution, and one of the leaders in a follow-up analysis of innovation in healthy value chains, will discuss this new work, putting in the context of the systemic changes that are needed, mostly at the organizational level-but in collaboration with other partners.  

Sanjeev Khagram, Wyss Visiting Scholar, Harvard Business School, and President, Global Action Network-Net, will explore the emerging phenomenon of global action networks (GANs), which collectively deal with issues related to social justice and sustainability at the societal level, issues that typically are considered to be within the public policy domain but that cannot, because of their complexity be tackled by governments alone. 

Malcolm McIntosh, Professor of Human Security, and Director, Applied Research Center on Human Security (ARCHS), Coventry University, Coventry, will discuss his work on sustainable enterprise, which tends to be interorganizational and collaborative, drawing from a series of global roundtables on the topic that, while initially focused on defining sustainable enterprise, ultimately emphasize the nature of the human condition in today's world-and whether it is sustainable. 

Sandra Waddock, Galligan Chair of Strategy at Boston College, and Erica Steckler, Doctoral Candidate at BC, will emphasize the individual level of creativity and initiative that is needed to develop and sustain social enterprise initiatives and a social movement over long periods of time, drawing from interviews with a group of people called the difference makers, who collectively have built the pioneering institutions in what has become an emerging corporate responsibility infrastructure.  The panelists thus collectively explore different levels of analysis related to sustainability-and, importantly-the linkages among and between those levels of analysis:  individual, organizational, and societal. 

Benyamin Lichtenstein, Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts and collaborator (with Peter Senge and John Sterman of MIT) will introduce the symposium and the panel, by outlining "eight degrees of leverage for sustainability," providing an overall framework for this collection of ideas.   

Best to all,

Sandra Waddock, Galligan Chair of Strategy, for the panelists

Professor of Management

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