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  • 1.  The loss of our esteemed colleague and friend, Professor Nigel Roome

    Posted 02-07-2016 17:36

    Dear members of the ONE community,

     

    It is with lots of sadness that I am writing this email today. A few days ago, Nigel Roome passed away after a long fight against cancer. Nigel has been a very influential and pioneer figure in our field. In 1978 he developed one of the first environmental management curriculum based on system thinking and complexity theory. In 1990 he launched an MBA course in corporate responsibility.

     

    Trained in chemistry and economics, he had this ability to connect things always in amazing ways. I have had the chance to be thought by Nigel but also to teach with Nigel. Although we had to repeat the same course several times, each time I could learnt something new. His mind was going so fast that it is only by hearing him several times that I could see and understand all the connections he was doing (and I'm sure I missed many).

     

    Nigel was a critical thinker. His ideas and scholarship contributions have influenced many companies, policy makers, and inspired researchers. Nigel's vision was to move society towards a more sustainable future.

     

    Nigel was above all a wonderful and caring person. I will certainly miss him.

     

    Céline Louche

     

     

     

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    Céline Louche

    Audencia Business School
    8 route de la Joneliere BP 31222
    44312 Nantes Cedex 3, France


    Tel: +33(0)240378110

    Email: clouche@audencia.com

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  • 2.  The loss of our esteemed colleague and friend, Professor Nigel Roome

    Posted 02-07-2016 19:30
    Indeed, a sad event. He was a true pioneer. My condolences.

    Dev J./ ONE

    On Sun, Feb 7, 2016 at 3:36 PM, LOUCHE Céline <clouche@audencia.com> wrote:

    Dear members of the ONE community,

     

    It is with lots of sadness that I am writing this email today. A few days ago, Nigel Roome passed away after a long fight against cancer. Nigel has been a very influential and pioneer figure in our field. In 1978 he developed one of the first environmental management curriculum based on system thinking and complexity theory. In 1990 he launched an MBA course in corporate responsibility.

     

    Trained in chemistry and economics, he had this ability to connect things always in amazing ways. I have had the chance to be thought by Nigel but also to teach with Nigel. Although we had to repeat the same course several times, each time I could learnt something new. His mind was going so fast that it is only by hearing him several times that I could see and understand all the connections he was doing (and I'm sure I missed many).

     

    Nigel was a critical thinker. His ideas and scholarship contributions have influenced many companies, policy makers, and inspired researchers. Nigel's vision was to move society towards a more sustainable future.

     

    Nigel was above all a wonderful and caring person. I will certainly miss him.

     

    Céline Louche

     

     

     

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    Céline Louche

    Audencia Business School
    8 route de la Joneliere BP 31222
    44312 Nantes Cedex 3, France


    Tel: +33(0)240378110

    Email: clouche@audencia.com

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    --
    P. Devereaux (Dev) Jennings
    Professor of Strategy and Organization
    Coordinator of the Canadian Centre for CSR (CCCSR)
    Alberta School of Business
    University of Alberta
    780-492-3998


  • 3.  The loss of our esteemed colleague and friend, Professor Nigel Roome

    Posted 02-08-2016 07:07
    This is indeed a sad loss.  Nihel was one of the pioneers, starting back in the early days of the Greening if Industry Network.  I met him first at GIN Copenhagen and he had a big impact on my thinking.  It was an honor to reach back out to him for a chapter in the Handbook on Business and the Natural with Tima.  I hope that ONE can offer some kind of trubute to him, perhaps in the Newsletter?

    ______________________________________
    Andrew J. Hoffman
    Education Director, Graham Sustainability Institute
    Holcim (US) Professor of Sustainable Enterprise
    Ross School of Business/SNRE
    University of Michigan
    701 Tappan Street, R4390
    Ann Arbor, MI 48109
    P: 734.763.9455
    E: ajhoff@umich.edu

    Administrative Assistant: Shelly Whitmer
    E: sjmoore@umich.edu; P: 734.647.4516
    ______________________________________


    On Sun, Feb 7, 2016 at 7:30 PM, P Jennings <dj1@ualberta.ca> wrote:
    Indeed, a sad event. He was a true pioneer. My condolences.

    Dev J./ ONE

    On Sun, Feb 7, 2016 at 3:36 PM, LOUCHE Céline <clouche@audencia.com> wrote:

    Dear members of the ONE community,

     

    It is with lots of sadness that I am writing this email today. A few days ago, Nigel Roome passed away after a long fight against cancer. Nigel has been a very influential and pioneer figure in our field. In 1978 he developed one of the first environmental management curriculum based on system thinking and complexity theory. In 1990 he launched an MBA course in corporate responsibility.

     

    Trained in chemistry and economics, he had this ability to connect things always in amazing ways. I have had the chance to be thought by Nigel but also to teach with Nigel. Although we had to repeat the same course several times, each time I could learnt something new. His mind was going so fast that it is only by hearing him several times that I could see and understand all the connections he was doing (and I'm sure I missed many).

     

    Nigel was a critical thinker. His ideas and scholarship contributions have influenced many companies, policy makers, and inspired researchers. Nigel's vision was to move society towards a more sustainable future.

     

    Nigel was above all a wonderful and caring person. I will certainly miss him.

     

    Céline Louche

     

     

     

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    Céline Louche

    Audencia Business School
    8 route de la Joneliere BP 31222
    44312 Nantes Cedex 3, France


    Tel: +33(0)240378110

    Email: clouche@audencia.com

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    --
    P. Devereaux (Dev) Jennings
    Professor of Strategy and Organization
    Coordinator of the Canadian Centre for CSR (CCCSR)
    Alberta School of Business
    University of Alberta



  • 4.  The loss of our esteemed colleague and friend, Professor Nigel Roome

    Posted 02-08-2016 11:25

    This is indeed very sad news. I first met Nigel at the AoM meetings in the late 1990s. Nigel was a pioneer and influenced me in many ways. His research on management innovation and sustainable development was a big inspiration to my own work. His openness to new ideas was also contagious. He was truly interested in learning about new research ideas and extremely supportive of the work of younger scholars. He is truly missed.

     

    Magali Delmas

    Professor of Management, UCLA

    www.environment.ucla.edu/delmas/

    310-825-9310

    President ARCS www.corporate-sustainability.org/

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    From: ONE-L [mailto:ONE-L@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU] On Behalf Of LOUCHE Céline
    Sent: Sunday, February 07, 2016 2:36 PM
    To: ONE-L@AOMLISTS.PACE.EDU
    Subject: [ONE-L] The loss of our esteemed colleague and friend, Professor Nigel Roome

     

    Dear members of the ONE community,

     

    It is with lots of sadness that I am writing this email today. A few days ago, Nigel Roome passed away after a long fight against cancer. Nigel has been a very influential and pioneer figure in our field. In 1978 he developed one of the first environmental management curriculum based on system thinking and complexity theory. In 1990 he launched an MBA course in corporate responsibility.

     

    Trained in chemistry and economics, he had this ability to connect things always in amazing ways. I have had the chance to be thought by Nigel but also to teach with Nigel. Although we had to repeat the same course several times, each time I could learnt something new. His mind was going so fast that it is only by hearing him several times that I could see and understand all the connections he was doing (and I'm sure I missed many).

     

    Nigel was a critical thinker. His ideas and scholarship contributions have influenced many companies, policy makers, and inspired researchers. Nigel's vision was to move society towards a more sustainable future.

     

    Nigel was above all a wonderful and caring person. I will certainly miss him.

     

    Céline Louche

     

     

     

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    Céline Louche

    Audencia Business School
    8 route de la Joneliere BP 31222
    44312 Nantes Cedex 3, France


    Tel: +33(0)240378110

    Email: clouche@audencia.com

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