Magali Delmas
University of California Santa Barbara.
Magali Delmas is an Associate Professor of management at the Donald Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at the University of California Santa Barbara and a Visiting Professor at the UCLA Institute of the Environment.
Standing at the crossroads of policy and management, Magali Delmas’ research focuses on the various interactions between environmental policy and business strategy at the national and international level. She seeks to understand how environmental policies influences firms’ strategies and performance and in turn how firms help shape environmental policy. Magali Delmas’ current work includes the analysis of the effectiveness of firms’ voluntary actions to mitigate climate change. She is involved in several projects related to firms’ voluntary strategies to reduce greenhouse gases in the electric utility sector. She is also engaged in refining current methodologies to measure and communicate firm’s and products’ environmental performance. Previous to embarking on an academic career she worked at the European Commission as the economic advisor of the Director for Industry.
Magali Delmas is the author of numerous articles published in policy and management journals such as the Strategic Management Journal, California Management Review, Production and Operations Management, Industrial and Corporate Change, Business and Politics, Business Strategy and the Environment, the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Policy Studies Journal, Policy Sciences, and the Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis.
Introduction
“Sustainability” (loosely defined as the simultaneous consideration of economic, environmental and social factors) has become a key element in decision making in many areas of business and public policy. By definition, sustainability requires a multi-disciplinary perspective. The new UCLA graduate emphasis on “Leaders in Sustainability” aims to provide a mechanism for graduate students from all over campus to pursue their interests in sustainability. This course is the “core” course of the emphasis: all graduate students who register for the Leaders in Sustainability emphasis must take this course at one point during their graduate studies.
This course is an introduction to the concept of sustainability and the leadership skills students will need to make a positive impact on their chosen dimension of sustainability. This class will combine environmental, social and economic perspectives in a wide range of contexts, using a mix of class formats to bring out the unique multidisciplinary nature of the audience.
Professor Magali Delmas
