Conference Announcement: 2010 Mini-Conference of the POMS College of Sustainable Operations
We hope you will join us for the 2nd Annual Mini-Conference of the POMS College of Sustainable Operations, to be held in Vancouver, BC, on May 6, the day before the POMS Annual Meeting.
This year’s mini-conference will feature speakers and discussions on a wide variety of sustainability topics. We will hear from thought leaders from outside of the Operations Management community such as Andrew Hoffman from strategy and Shmuel Oren from operations research/energy economics. The mini-conference will also include a session on the interface between product design and sustainability from Stelios Kavadias, as well as a field report on humanitarian logistics efforts currently underway in Africa and the Middle East. We hope to have active industry participation this year, including a keynote from Burton Hamner, an experienced environmental consultant and entrepreneur.
More details are coming soon, including information on registration procedures and fees. In the meantime, please feel free to contact us with any questions. We look forward to seeing you in Vancouver!
Atalay Atasu & Mike Galbreth
Sustainable Operations College Mini-Conference Co-Chairs
atalay.atasu@mgt.gatech.edu
galbreth@moore.sc.edu
PhD Proposal Award
The POMS College of Sustainable Operations is pleased to announce its first (annual) Ph.D. Proposal Award Competition. The aim of this competition is to highlight the most promising Ph.D. research projects in the field of sustainable operations and provide visibility to the doctoral students carrying out these initiatives. The winner and runner up will be selected by a Award Committee chaired by the College’s VP Outreach & Awards - Vedat Verter (McGill). The Committee members are Charles Corbett (UCLA), Mike Ketzenberg (Texas A&M) and Luk Van Wassenhove (INSEAD). The Committee’s decision will be announced at the College’s business meeting during POMS 2010.
We encourage the Ph.D. Supervisors to nominate their doctoral students for this award. Two documents are necessary for nomination:
- a letter of nomination (that states the current status of the student’s in the doctoral program)
- a 5-page summary of the student’s Ph.D. Proposal (1.15 line spacing, 12 font).
Please e-mail these documents to the Committee Chair at vedat.verter@mcgill.ca by February 1, 2010. The students who have not yet defended their Ph.D. proposal are eligible for nomination, and encouraged to seek nomination from their supervisor. To avoid a “Ph.D. Dissertation Competition”, preference will be given to the students who are not within one year of the completion of their doctoral thesis.
2009 Page Prize for Environmental Sustainability
The Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina is honored to announce the 2nd annual Alfred N. and Lynn Manos Page Prize for Sustainability Issues in Business Curricula. The Page Prize has two purposes: to encourage efforts to expose business students to state-of-the-art environmental sustainability knowledge and to demonstrate the Moore School’s commitment to promoting sustainability in business education.
Who may submit:
Faculty, doctoral students, and others are invited to submit non-published materials related to innovative curricula (program design and core components), courses (including full syllabi) and/or substantial course components (e.g., case materials, simulations, and course segments) appropriate for rigorous and relevant teaching about environmental sustainability and business. Submissions must be original and made with the full consent of all authors for free public access to the submitted materials for use in business education anywhere in the world.
Awards:
One Grand Prize will be awarded. The Grand Prize will be $1,000, plus a framed print of Aegean Sea #6 (shown here) as certifying the award. Honorable Mention prizes will also be awarded at levels of $250 each. Each finalist will receive a print of Aegean Sea #6. The winners will be chosen by a three member faculty committee from the University of South Carolina. An ongoing database of top submissions will be made available on the Moore School’s website for adoption by business faculty around the world to utilize in their home institutions. Top submissions will also be accessible through the Moore School’s Partner Page on the Aspen Institute’s caseplace.org.
Deadline and Submission Information:
December 4, 2009, 5:00 p.m. EST. All submissions must be made electronically to:pageprize@moore.sc.edu. Complete submissions must include the following:
- Relevant curriculum, course, or course materials
- A cover letter that provides an overview of the submitted materials. The cover letter should include a discussion of why the submission is innovative in the field of environmental sustainability and how it will help others develop their own sustainability courses/programs.
- CV for (all) author(s) of submission
- Release form (online)
Additional Information:
To view last year’s winning curricula and find additional information about the Page Prize, please visit http://mooreschool.sc.edu/moore/RES/Page_Prize/index.html or http://www.caseplace.org/d.asp?d=4036.
For questions about the competition, please email pageprize@moore.sc.edu or call 803-777-3176.
