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Jim Kennelly,
PhD is the Director of the International Affairs Program and Associate
Professor of International Business at Skidmore College. He holds a
PhD in International Business/Management from New York University. Jim
teaches courses in the areas of international business, international
affairs, and business and the natural environment. He also regularly
teaches a freshman seminar entitled Ireland: Myth, Reality, Conflict,
Identity. In 2006 he led Skidmore students on a Travel Seminar to
Ireland entitled Changing Utterly: Ireland Past and Present. Jim’s
research interests centre on Ireland, particularly in the areas of
sustainable development, cooperative organization, and innovation,
entrepreneurship and creativity. His most recent co-authored book
(with Finbarr Bradley), launched by the Taoiseach at the IFSC in
October 2008, is entitled Capitalising on Culture, Competing on
Difference: Innovation, Learning and Sense of Place in a Globalising
Ireland. He has recently published an article on Horace Plunkett in
the New Hibernia Review, has published in Case Research Journal,
Sustainable Development, Radharc, and Banking Ireland, and regularly
presents at the American Conference for Irish Studies.
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Alfred Marcus is the Edson Spence Chair of Strategy and Technological Leadership at
the University of Minnesota, Carlson School of Management and the
Center for Technological Leadership. He has been at the University of
Minnesota since 1984. He is the author/co-author of 14 books including
Strategic Foresight (Palgrave MacMillan) that was published in 2009 and
Big Winners and Big Losers published (Wharton School Press) His
academic articles have appeared in StrategicManagement Journal, Academy
of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, and Organization
Science, and other journals. His PH.D is from Harvard and he has
undergraduate and grad degrees from the University of Chicago. He has
consulted with such corporations as 3M, Corning, Xcel Energy,
Medtronic, General Mills, and IBM. Prior to Minnesota, he was on the
University of Pittsburgh Business School faculty and was a Battelle
Human Affairs Research Centers inSeattle research scientist. His
1991-1992 sabbatical was taken at the Sloan School MIT. He has foreign
teaching experience in Norway, China, Costa Rica, and Eastern Europe
and since 2005 he also has been teaching in in the MBA program of the
Technion.
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Stuart L. Hart is
the Samuel C. Johnson Chair of Sustainable Global Enterprise and
Professor of Management at Cornell University’s Johnson School of
Management. Before joining Cornell in 2003, he was the Hans Zulliger
Distinguished Professor of Sustainable Enterprise and Professor of
Strategic Management at the University of North Carolina’s
Kenan-Flagler Business School, where he founded the Center for
Sustainable Enterprise and the Base of the Pyramid Learning Laboratory.
Previously, he taught corporate strategy at the University of Michigan
Business School and was the founding director of the Corporate
Environmental Management Program (CEMP). Professor Hart is one of the
world’s top authorities on the implications of sustainable development
and environmentalism for business strategy. He has published over 60
papers and authored or edited six books. His article “Beyond Greening:
Strategies for a Sustainable World” won the McKinsey Award for Best
Article in the Harvard Business Review for 1997 and helped launch the
movement for corporate sustainability. With C.K. Prahalad, Hart also
wrote the pathbreaking 2002 article “The Fortune at the Bottom of the
Pyramid,” which provided the first articulation of how business could
profitably serve the needs of the four billion poor in the developing
world. His new book, Capitalism at the Crossroads, was published by
Wharton School Publishing in 2005. The second edition of the book with
a new Foreword by Al Gore was published in 2007.
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Dr. Ian I. Mitroff is currently a University Professor at Alliant International University
in San Francisco. He is also a Senior Investigator in the Center for
Catastrophic Risk Management, University of California Berkeley. In
addition, he is an Adjunct Professor of Health Policy, School of Public
Health, St. Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri.
He is
Professor Emeritus from the University of Southern California, where he
was the Harold Quinton Distinguished Professor of Business Policy at
the Marshall School of Business.
He is the President of the consulting firm Comprehensive Crisis Management.
Dr.
Mitroff is regarded as one of the founders of the discipline of Crisis
Management. He founded and directed the USC Center for Crisis
Management.
Known for his thinking and writing on a wide range
of business and societal issues, Dr. Mitroff is the author of 26
previous books, including “A Spiritual Audit of Corporate America,”
“Smart Thinking for Crazy Times,” “The Essential Guide to Managing
Corporate Crisis,” “The Unbounded Mind” and “Managing Crises Before
They Happen.”
His PhD is in Engineering Science and the
Philosophy of Social Science from U.C. Berkeley. He is a Fellow of The
American Psychological Association, The American Association for the
Advancement of Science, and The American Academy of Management. He has
an honorary Ph.D. from the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University
of Stockholm. He is the recipient of a gold medal from the United
Kingdom Systems Society for his life-long contributions to
understanding complex problems.
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Cleo Paskal is a geopolitical analyst who specializes in the
geopolitical, security, and economic implications of environmental
change (including climate change). She is a
Fellow of the Energy, Environment and Development Program at the Royal
Institute of
International Affairs, Chatham House, London, UK, and a consultant for
the US Department of Energy’s Global Energy and Environment Strategic
Ecosystem.
Professor Paskal is also Adjunct Faculty in the Department of
Geopolitics, Manipal University, India, and Adjunct Professor of Global
Change, School of Communications and Management Studies, Kochi, India.
She has guest lectured at universities on most continents, including
Cambridge University and the London School of Economics.
She consults for a wide range of stakeholders including the State
Department, UK Ministry of Defense, EU, NATO, OSCE, and has briefed
high-ranking government officials from several countries on specific
scenarios they might face in the coming years.
Cleo Paskal is also an award-winning journalist who has contributed to,
among others, Th e Economist, The Independent, and the Sunday Times.
She has hosted BBC radio shows and wrote an Emmy-winning documentary TV
series.
Cleo Paskal looks at how environmental change will
affect more than just the weather. A turbulent climate will make access
to increasingly scarce resources even more crucial, and difficult.
Meanwhile, there will be a growing number of hotspots where already
tense relations are exacerbated by environmental change. Some are
already obvious, such as in the Arctic and Himalayas. Others are still
developing, such as in the US Gulf Coast and coastal China. Th e
results will affect everything from the price of energy to the
stability of the US and the viability of international law. The world
is changing. Fast. All sectors, and nations, will be affected. And the
first line of defense involves understand exactly how big the challenge
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Dr. Timo Busch is currently working as senior researcher at the Swiss
Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, Switzerland. His
research interests include corporate strategies towards a low carbon
economy, organizational adaptation to climate change, and the business
case of corporate environmental sustainability. He teaches at ETH and FU
Berlin courses on corporate sustainability and strategy. His PhD thesis
on strategic management under carbon constraints was awarded with the
"Silver Medal of ETH Zurich". Before joining ETH, Busch worked at the
Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment, and Energy focusing on
corporate eco-efficiency, sustainable finance, and climate change. His
work has been published in international journals including Journal of
Industrial Ecology, Ecological Economics, Business and Society, and
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