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The Fourth SoL Research Greenhouse
Rigor and Relevance for the Triple Bottom Line: Profit, Equity, and Sustainability
co-sponsored by Boston College, Department of Organization Studies
January 13-15, 2004
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Schedule



Day One - January 13th, 2004

11:30 am – 1:00 pm
Registration & Lunch

Opening

Keynote: Adventures on the Way to Investing for a Triple Bottom-Line
Joan Bavaria - founder and CEO of Trillium Asset management (the original social investing company)
Panelists: Sandra Waddock and Charles Derber
Moderator: Bill Torbert

BREAK

A Chalk Talk and Warm-Up Exercise for Integrating Research and Practice
Bill Torbert, Dave Flanigan, and Jim Ritchie-Dunham

Reception and Dinner at Holiday Inn, Brookline from 6pm to 9pm

Health, Sickness and Pathology in Organizations: A Systemic View with Implications for Growth and Sustainability
Ed Schein

Inaugurating the SoL distinguished speaker series honoring Edgar H. Schein

 

Day Two - January 14th, 2004

Opening & Check-in

Parallel Sessions #1

Measuring the Impact of Leadership Development
Terrie Conway

Using Reflective Practice Research to Address the Triple Bottom Line
Tom Bigda-Peyton and Beebe Nelson

Learning through Silence and Dialogue: Building Sustainable Community Culture
Mette Husemoen and Will Zhang

The Joy of the Common Endeavor - seeding the SoL Sustainability Consortium: Two personal perspectives
Sara Schley and Joe Laur

BREAK

Parallel Sessions #2

Creating a Leaderful Management Network
Joe Raelin, Mark Braun, Victoria Sirianni, Philip DiChiara, Pattie Orr, and Colleen Wheeler

Executive Forum on Corporate Citizenship: A University/ Business Action Learning Collaboration
Philip Mirvis, Julie Manga, Steve Rochlin, and Kristen Zecchi

The SoL Sustainability Consortium: What We Can Learn From a Collaborative Self-Organizing Entity?
John Carroll, Peter Senge, Sarah LeRoy, Katrin Kaufer, and Joe Laur

Creating Collaborative Space
Dan Kowalski, Robert Petzel, Rita Kowalski, Joel Neuman, and Lyle Yorks

KIN SoL: The Knowledge and Innovation Network of the Society for Organizational Learning
Goran Carstedt, Dennis Sandow, and Nick Zeniuk

LUNCH

Keynote: New Frontiers for Sustainability: The Core Ecological Principles
John Milton and Peter Senge

Parallel Sessions #3

Using Sustainability Frameworks to Improve the Triple Bottom Line
Katherine Holt

Inventing Ecological Societies - conquest, engagement and reinvention
Barbara Heinzen

The social construction of corporate purpose
Dan Saint and Jackie Stavros

Thinking Clearly within Complex Social Systems: to Halve Extreme Poverty World-wide by 2015
Rafael Callejas, Steve Waddell, John Carroll, and Jim Ritchie-Dunham

Double sessions

Session 1: Embedded Environmental Metrics
Robert Sroufe

Session 2: The climate change challenge: the role of science-based stakeholder dialogues...for mitigation and adaptation
Martin Welp

BREAK

World Cafe Integrative conversations

BREAK

Dinner at Boston College, 7:00 pm

Keynote: Sustainability through Servant-Leadership: The Experience of Southwest Airlines and a Learning Community of 11 Member Organizations
Ann McGee Cooper

 

Day Three - January 15th, 2004

Opening

Keynote: Reflections on the Greenhouse
John Ehrenfeld (International Society for Industrial Ecology and MIT)

Parallel Sessions #4

Regulation of Safety in High Hazard Industries: Balancing Learning and Control
Peter Rivard and others

Study of the SoL core course.- an example of organizing for collaborative research
Jean Bartunek, Jordi Trullen, Frank Schneider, Carol Gorelick, and Sherry Immediato

Journeys to the Heart of Business: Developing Socially Responsible Leadership
Karen Ayas and Philip Mirvis

Double sessions

Session 1: A Healthier Approach to Hospital Cost Reduction
Pete Carlson

Session 2: Creating Sustainable Value? Resolving the Improvement Paradox
Pat O’Brien

BREAK

Parallel Sessions #5

Pattern language as a tool in search of a “grammar” – a deep structure – for organizational learning
Sylvia Vriesendorp

Co-Evolutionary Sustainability: Renewal and Regeneration of Communities and Organisations
Eve Mitleton-Kelly

How Southwest Airlines is Addressing Triple Bottom Line Sustainability Opportunities
Ann McGee Cooper

Double sessions

Session 1: Emergent learning communities: how can SoL best study itself? How we can more actively engage in action research on our own experiment?
Sherry Immediato and other members of the Global SoL Design Team (Maria Cristina d'Arce, SoL Brazil, Hanna Heikkinen, SoL Finland, K. Gopalan, SoL Malaysia, Bettye Pruitt, Alain Gauthier)

Session 2: Being in Competition with One's Self: Learning as Dynamic Capability
Elena Antonacopoulou

Double sessions

Session 1: Organizational Cultures That Get Financial Results
Rich Hagberg

Session 2: “Balancing” Performance Measure-ment within Global Organizations: managing integration, (un)learning and change
Cristiano Busco

Lunch

World Cafe

Closing session ends at 3pm