Gund Affiliate, Professor and Steven Grossman Endowed Chair of Sustainable Business, Grossman School of Business

Dror Etzion is the Steven Grossman Endowed Chair of Sustainable Business at the Grossman School of Business (GSB) at ̽̽.

Dror's research program focuses on “grand challenges”: the unyielding, intractable problems that characterize the Anthropocene. His work suggests that managing for sustainability through local, open, emergent initiatives increases the recruitment of diverse stakeholders, fosters creativity, and yields impactful outcomes.

From 2008 – 2023 Dror worked at the Desautels Faculty of Management, at McGill University. He received his Ph.D. from IESE Business School in Barcelona, Spain. Previously, Dror worked for 5 years in the Israeli software industry, and also spent a year at The Natural Step, an international non-profit research and consultancy organization focused on sustainable development.

Publications

  • Luederitz, C., Animesh, A., Rohrbacher, K., Li, T., Piper, A., Potvin, C., Etzion, D. Non-monetary narratives motivate businesses to engage with climate change. Sustain Sci 18, 2649–2660 (2023).
  • Etzion, D. Management for sustainability. Nat Sustain 1, 744–749 (2018).
  • Etzion, D. The proliferation of carbon labels. Nat. Clim. Chang. 12, 770 (2022).
  • Ferraro, F., Etzion, D., & Gehman, J. (2015). Tackling Grand Challenges Pragmatically: Robust Action Revisited. Organization Studies, 36(3), 363-390.
  • Dror Etzion, Emmanuel Kypraios, and Bernard Forgues, 2019: Employing Finance in Pursuit of the Sustainable Development Goals: The Promise and Perils of Catastrophe Bonds. AMD, 5, 530–554,

Areas of Expertise and/or Research

Business strategy, organization theory, sustainability metrics, robust action

Education

  • Ph.D. Management, University of Navarra, IESE Business School
  • M.Sc. Geophysics and Planetary Sciences (cum laude), Tel-Aviv University
  • B.Sc. Physics (cum laude), Ben-Gurion University

Contact

Email:

Dror.Etzion@uvm.edu

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