2021 RRR Speakers and Chairs

2021 Responsible Research Roundtable Biographies of Speakers and Chairs     Ruben Atekpe (Speaker) is Executive Chairman, Merchant Company of West Africa (MECOWA). An accomplished entrepreneur and investment advisor focused on opportunities for socioeconomic development and growth in Ghana and other parts of Africa, Ruben serves as a Member of the World Economic Forum’s Global…

2021 “Responsible Research in Management” Award Distinguished Winners

2021 “Responsible Research in Management” Award Distinguished Winners (4)   Bazerman, M. H. (2020). Better, not perfect: A realist’s guide to maximum sustainable goodness. New York, NY: HarperCollins. Much has been written about ethics from a variety of disciplines, with the most dominant influence from philosophers. Philosophers offer normative accounts of what they think people…

2021 M&SOM Society Award for Responsible Research in Operations Management

2021 M&SOM Society Award for Responsible Research in Operations Management   The purpose of responsible research is to encourage studies contributing knowledge that may have implications for making the world a better place by informing evidence-based, high quality and societally beneficial organizational practices across business, government and non-government organizations.   2021 Committee Zeynep Aksin Karaesmen Ravi…

2021 – “Business for a Better World” Dissertation Proposal Competition

“Business for a Better World” Dissertation Proposal Competition Colorado State University   Ariel de Fauconberg, University of Cambridge, Advisor: Matthew Grimes “The Power (and Stigma) of Oil: Strategic Identity Position and Innovation in the Energy Sector” Diana Jue-Rajasingh, University of Michigan, Advisors: Jordan Siegel and Mark Mizruchi “Development Markets and Businesses for Environmental Health Innovations”…

Responsible Research Roundtable 2021 Agenda

  OBJECTIVES   The goal of the Responsible Research Roundtable was to develop a SHARED UNDERSTANDING and a JOINT COMMITMENT for a systemic move toward business knowledge co-production by academia and its stakeholders (business, institutions, civil society) for the betterment of society.   The specific action-oriented objectives we aspired to achieve were:   Why? IDENTIFY…

Responsible Research Roundtable 2021

  The 2021 (virtual) Responsible Research Roundtable (RRR) convened on June 28 and 29 2021, bringing together 84 academic researchers (57%) and business leaders (43%) from 70 institutions in 15 countries (click here for the list of participants) with a shared belief in the imperative to transform business school research to serve society more directly…