CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS - PhD Sustainability Academy
"The things we have to learn before we do them, we learn by doing them."
(Aristotle)
When & Where
September 26 - 30, 2008
Richard Ivey School of Business, London, Ontario, Canada
2008 Theme: Water & Wine
The Ivey Business School will host the first pan-Canadian PhD Sustainability Academy in partnership with Great-West Life, London Life and Canada Life, and the Research Network for Business Sustainability.
The PhD Sustainability Academy seeks to promote high-impact scholarship in sustainability, with a focus on multidisciplinary thinking and practice. The doctoral academy features three distinguished guest academics -
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Dirk Matten - Schulich School of Business, York University
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Andy Hoffman - Stephen M. Ross School of Business and the School of Natural Resources & Environment, University of Michigan
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Christian Seelos - IESE, University of Navarra.
The four day event will bring together 15-20 doctoral scholars from leading Canadian and global doctoral programs. The goal is to offer an experientially rich environment to help nurture and advance participants academic thinking and teaching capabilities, and to encourage a broad-based, future-looking dialogue focused on fostering new knowledge and practices across different domains of sustainability.
All interested doctoral scholars working on sustainability are encouraged to submit a 2-5 page extended abstract of original, previously unpublished work to the 2008 PhD Sustainability Academy convenors, Oana Branzei obranzei@ivey.uwo.ca and Marlene J. Le Ber mleber@ivey.uwo.ca by July 15, 2008.
All additional information can be found on the "Building Sustainable Value" website.
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