"Innovations to Tackle GlobalSustainability Challenges" Conference
May 15-17, 2025 | Bloomington, Indiana
We are excited to announce the 3rd Biennial "Innovations to Tackle Global Sustainability Challenges" Conference, co-organized by the Centers for International Business Education and Research at Indiana University, The George Washington University, and Georgia Institute of Technology.
Conference Overview
The purpose of this annual conference is to bring together active and leading scholars worldwide to share their research on important emerging concepts, themes, and methodologies on the topic of global sustainability. We hope that, by forming this leading community of global sustainability researchers, the conference will strengthen international business scholarship in sustainability-related areas; foster thought-provoking interdisciplinary discussions; engage dialogues between scholars and society including practitioners, and educators; and contribute frontier insights to addressing global sustainability challenges.
Conference Format and Accommodations
The conference will be held
on the campus of Indiana University – Bloomington (ranked #1 The Most Beautiful College Campus for 2024 by bestvalueschools.org), May 15 to 17, 2025.
The tentative program includes
• Thursday evening: Check-in
• Friday: Full-day conference sessions
o Paper presentations will include conceptual papers, and empirical papers presenting quantitative and/or qualitative data
o Panel discussion will include thought leaders and practitioner experts on selected topics
• Friday evening: Group dinner
• Saturday: Full-day conference sessions
o Paper presentations will include conceptual papers, and empirical papers presenting quantitative and/or qualitative data
o Panel discussion will include thought leaders and practitioner experts on selected topics
o Afternoon: Paper development workshop and teaching workshop
Invited Panel Sessions
Panel 1: Corporate Sustainability Strategy in a Deglobalizing World
- Kylie Heales, Miami U
- Wesley Longhofer, Emory U
- Garima Sharma, American U
Panel 2: The Role of Technology in Driving Sustainable Business Practices
- Nardia Haigh, U of Massachusetts-Boston
- Shon Hiatt, U of Southern California
- Jeff York, U of Colorado Boulder
Panel 3: Bridging Boundaries: Exchanging Ideas for Interdisciplinary Sustainability Breakthroughs
- Amrou Awaysheh (Indiana U, Operations & Supply Chain Management; Executive Director, IU Business Sustainability, and Innovation Lab
- Owen Wu (Indiana U, Operations and Decision Technologies; Director - Research and Outreach, Institute for Environmental & Social Sustainability)
- Donald Young (Indiana U, Accounting Department)
- Mathias Kruttli (Indiana U, Finance Department)
For the accepted proposals, we will cover the hotel costs for two nights for one person per proposal. More co-authorsper team are welcome to join, but they will need to cover their own hotel expenses.
Conference Awards
Three awards will be given out:
Young Scholar Best Paper Award, Best Phenomena-based Paper, Best Conference Paper. Please visit
our website to learn more.
Submission Procedure
Authors who wish to present their papers at the conference should submit a max. 7-page (single- spaced) proposal through our
online submission portal by
January 15, 2025. Results will be notified by
February 1, 2025.
For questions regarding the conference research program, please contact conference Co-Chairs:
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Stephanie Wang
Research Program
Co-Chair
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Joel Gehman
Research Program Co-Chair
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Zolboo Dashmyagmar
Teaching Program
Co-Chair
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Britt Rust
Conference Logistics Co-Chair
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Joel Gehman
Professor
The George Washington University
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