Being a top academic – some answers from Trexler Proffitt to what kind of impact do you wanna make? by oikosinternational

Lea Fuenfschilling, doctoral student at EAWAG Aquatic Research Institute Zurich, and participant at the 1st oikos Young Scholars Organizations Academy on Culture and Sustainability interviews Jennifer Howard-Grenville. Jennifer recently became Associate Professor of Management at the University of Oregon and since her PhD at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology she has conducted research at the intersection of the environment and corporate strategy and change.

Bryan Gallagher, doctoral candidate at Simon Fraser University and participant at the first oikos Young Scholars Organizations Academy in Appenzell, Switzerland interviews Davide Ravasi. Davide is an Associate Professor of Management at Bocconi University, associate editor of the Journal of Management Studies, and a member of the editorial board of the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, and Strategic Organization.

Liudmila Nazarkina, oikos PhD Fellow at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, and Raja Singaram, doctoral candidate at the University of Twente in the Netherlands are in Filzbach, Switzerland at the oikos Young Scholars Entrepreneurship Academy for researchers in the field of cleantech entrepreneurship, finance and policy. Their guest is Dr. Itai Sened, Professor of Political Science at Washington University in St. Louis. Prof. Sened is the Director of the Center for New Institutional Social Science. He is carrying the legacy of Douglass North, co-recipient of the 1993 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.

Liudmila Nazarkina, editor of the oikos case quarterly and oikos PhD Fellow at St Gallen University explores how sustainability can be taught with cases. Her guest is Michael Russo, the Charles H. Lundquist Professor of Sustainable Management at the University of Oregon. Michael is an author of several cases on mission-driven companies, including an oikos winning case on Seventh Generation. Michael is also a noted researcher and an author of an award-winning book published in 2010 and titled “Companies on a Mission: Entrepreneurial Strategies for Growing Sustainably, Responsibly, and Profitably”.