List of Contributions

Ken Pucker (ex COO of Timberland) and I have published, in the Stanford Social Innovation Review, an article on "The Dangerous Allure of Win-win Strategies". We argue that a lot of popular notions are both damaging and wrong. In response, an active conversation has started at both SSIR and ARCS. ...

Colleagues, In two weeks, Tuck will be hosting our annual Business and Sustainability conference (2/23). I think it could be one of the very best. Please take a look at the program and pass on information about the conference to anyone who might be interested in attending. The link for ...

I was not trying to get us into value driven research. I was trying to make the heretical argument that preferences are not fixed and exogenous, but instead learned and endogenous. What do we think of a world a 100 years hence the world is an artificial place of aquaculture and processed suburban savanna? ...

Two thoughts: 1) It strikes me that the notion of sustainability comes from a resource economics view of the world. Renewable resources like fisheries have many sustainable rates of harvesting, one of which maximizes welfare. Non-renewable resources have an optimal rate of extraction. Both of ...

I can't see how one can make any generalizations about voluntary programs without being much more careful and specific. VPs come in numerous forms and with numerous intentions. They vary widely in the degree of institutional structure, breadth, and application. Their eventual economic effect varies from ...