Environmental and Social Sustainability for Business Advantage

Robert Sroufe, Editor of the Environmental and Social Sustainability for Business Advantage Collection

Robert Sroufe is the Falk Chair of Socially Responsible Management and Professor of Sustainability at Chatham University, where he enables integrated management in the College of Environment, Leadership Management and the Sustainability + MBA Program. He is among the top 2% of global scientists recognized by Stanford researchers and Elsevier for career impact on business management, environmental science, and economics. He is the recipient of teaching awards from the Aspen Institute, Academy of Management, Production and Operations Management Society, Decision Sciences Institute, University Creative Teaching Awards, and Page Prize for Best U.S. Curriculum. He is doing this in one of the first sustainability schools and first sustainability campuses (Eden Hall) in the U.S. The campus and programs are designed from the ground up to integrate community, business, agriculture, and conservation best practices. Geothermal, solar, and wind energy, high-performance buildings, C2C closed-loop food systems on campus, landscaping, sustainability dashboards, data, and hands-on projects are all central to this living campus laboratory. These programs, practices, and experiential learning are a purposeful effort to operationalize organizations and the natural environment in 21st-century university experiences for students and faculty. He is a researcher, founder of the Integrated Management Institute, speaker, and consultant in operationalizing more sustainable business practices, strategic sustainability, environmental management systems, strategic sustainable supply chain management (S3CM), and purchasing.