Institute for Sustainable Enterprise at the Silberman College of Business Fairleigh Dickinson University RESEARCH COMMITTEE REPORT

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Institute for Sustainable Enterpriseat the
Silberman College of Business Fairleigh
Dickinson University RESEARCH COMMITTEE REPORT

• ISE Advisory Group Session
• March 30, 2006

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Mission for Institute for Sustainable Enterprise
THE INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE ENTERPRISE Educate
current and future leaders of business,
government, nonprofit, and educational
institutions about managing sustainably by
focusing on products, processes, and services
that add value to the organizations, and are
beneficial to people and the planet

• Core Competencies
• Creating learning venues, opportunities, and
  communities within and across organizations
• Coalescing mobilizing project action networks
• Creating collaborative conditions to break
  through complexity for better results
• Generating and distributing widely usable
  knowledge

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The Institute for Sustainable Enterprise
CURRICULUM
SERVICE
INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE ENTERPRISE Educate
current and future leaders of business,
government, nonprofit, and educational
institutions about managing sustainably by
focusing on products, processes, and services
that add value to the organizations, and are
beneficial to people and the planet

• High-engagement action learning education
  programs to develop
• global perspective,
• collaborative mindset,
• systems breakthrough thinking
• For sustainable management

• Seminars roundtables
• Knowledge clearinghouse
• Conferences
• Student mentoring
• HR leadership development
• Process facilitation
• Consulting

APPLIED RESEARCH
CASE STUDY RESEARCH about effective
sustainability initiatives
ACTION RESEARCH/SCIENCE Sustainability-enhancing
projects with organizations
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Role Of ISE Research Committee (RC)

• ISE Research Committee
• Policy group
• Decides whether and how to embrace and support
  specific research projects
• Policies guidelines for conducting and
  disseminating research
• Catalyst for research network

Project Support Group Process Grant Experts
Research Project Team 2
Research Project Team 3
Research Project Team 1
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RC Operating Norms

• Ways of being to employ within the RC and model
  for ISE
• Collaborative
• Listening, Hearing, and Respect
• Nurturing
• Transparency and Trust
• Value on Learning Reflective, Inquiring
• Appreciative Constructive
• Results Oriented
• Shared Accountability

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Criteria for Selecting Applied Research Projects
To identify knowledge gaps, key design principles
and Networks Solidify business case and provide
action road maps

• Grounded in practice
• Importance and Impact
• Advances sustainability in measurable way
• Link to managing sustainably reveals how
  behave/act/manage differently
• Transferable/generalizable -- Contributes
  usable/publishable knowledge
• Cross-domain/multi-sector/multi-disciplinary in
  nature
• Collaborative --studying with
• Commitment of people involved to learning
• Potential for long-term relationship to be
  established
• Developmental for us
• Opportunity for learning competency building
• Increase in social capital/reputation
• Interesting to potential funding sources
• Doable We have/could get necessary capabilities
  knowledge (Note Create project-competency
  alignment matrix)
• Timeframe allows for some quick wins

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Project Grant Proposals in Development

• Enhancing Cross-Sector Collaboration for
  Sustainability Lessons from UN Global Compact
  Projects
• Role of HR in the Move to Sustainability
• Energy Inputs, Outputs Outcomes from
  Investments in Sustainable Energy Enterprises
• Towards Sustainability in Higher Education
  Leveraging a Green Library Project into a
  University-wide, Environmental, Social,
  Financial, and Educational Sustainability
  Initiative

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Possible ISE Applied Research Roadmap Goals
By July 2006 By July 2009
Links established across academic disciplines and institutions 3 corporate foundation grants awarded 200K Research project teams formed ECo case study completed Significant progress on UN Global Compact comparative case analysis FDU green library/campus project initiated OD future business leader survey results disseminated Academic pubs in progress Field Book on Enterprise Sustainability initiated Cross disciplinary/institutional academic links expanded and solidified Total of 8 corporate foundation grants awarded 750K 1 major research agency grant awarded 300k ECo action-research project completed UN Global Compact project completed ISE a hub for UN GC regional network FDU green library/campus project completed and used as model for advancing sustainability in higher ed. Field Book on Enterprise Sustainability published 10 ISE-sponsored academic pubs
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Ideas Issues

• Focus on global, regional, NJ?
• Focus on business community, NGO, government,
  social networks?
• Study the social network around sustainability?
• Issue surfacing/generating --thinking beyond what
  we know? Key knowledge gaps?
• How further engage investment community?
  Shareholder links with Innovest data?
• Leverage our unique strengths, filling in spaces
  to be change agents?
• How can we be agents to help solve BIG problems?
• What is vision of the ISE research element in 10
  years? What want to be?
• How strongly should we play an advocacy role?
• How can we get involved in various New Jersey
  sustainability forums?
• Research on cross-cultural comparative (US
  Non-US) issues?
• Project-level issues needing to be
  discussed/chartered?
• Compensating various research team members?
• Publication and Intellectual property aspects?
• Create ISE Research Brochure list practical
  problems/questions to solve?