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Christine Rosen

Associate Professor
Haas Business and Public Policy Group
Socially Responsible Business
1-510-642-8695
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Academic Status: On duty
Office Hours: By appointment only, F577
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Academic Group Homepage: http://groups.haas.berkeley.edu/bpp
Curriculum Vitae (in PDF format, Acrobat Reader required)

Education

BA, history, Wellesley College
MA, history, Harvard University
Ph.D., history, Harvard University

Positions Held

At Haas since 1983

1992 - present Associate Professor, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
1983 - 92 Assistant Professor, Business and Public Policy, Haas School of Business
1982 - 83 Lecturer, Business and Public Policy, Haas School of Business
1983 Lecturer, Legal Studies Program, University of California, Berkeley
1982 Lecturer, Department of History, University of California, Berkeley
1979 Lecturer, Department of City and Regional Planning, University of California, Berkeley
1976 - 77 Instructor, Department of History, Princeton University

External Service and Assignments

Former president and program chair: Economic and Business Historical Society
Member of the Board of Trustees: Business History Conference
Member of the Executive Board: American Society for Environmental History
Member, Public Works Historical Society, American Historical Association, Organization of American Historians, Society for the History of Technology, American Society for Legal History
Member, Academy of Management, Social Issues in Management and History of Management Sections
Member, Association of Academic Women, University of California, Berkeley

Current Research and Interests

American Business history
History of pollution regulation and corporate environmental management
Industrial ecology and new developments in corporate environmental management

Selected Papers and Publications

"Industrial Ecology and the Transformation of Corporate Environmental Management: A Business Historian's Perspective," in Heather Bruce and Joyce Bedi (eds.), Inventing for the Environment, (Cambridge: MIT Press, forthcoming)
"Environmental of Supply Management in the Computer Industry, Part I: A Transactions Cost Economics Perspective," (with Janet Bercovitz and Sara Beckman), 4 Journal of Industrial Ecology (Fall, 2001), 83-103
Guest Editor of "Environmental Strategy and Competitive Advantage," California Management Review (Spring 2001), 8-84
Environmentally Sound Supply Chain Management: Implementation in the Computer Industry," (with Sara Beckman and Janet Bercovitz) in Christian Madu (ed.), Handbook of Environmentally Conscious Manufacturing, (Kluwer Academic Publishers, forthcoming 2001), 362-383.
"The Nature of the Firm: Towards an Eco-cultural History of Business," (with Christopher Sellers), Business History Review (Winter 1999).
"Industrial Ecology and the Greening of Business History," Business and Economic History, (Fall 1997), 123-137.
"Noisome, Noxious, and Offensive Vapors, Fumes, and Stenches in American Towns and Cities, 1840-1865," Historical Geography 25 (1997), 49-82.
"Businessmen Against Pollution in Late Nineteenth Century Chicago,"Business History Review (Fall 1995).

Teaching

BA 172, History of American Business (cross-listed as American Studies 172)
BA 278, Corporate Environmental Management

Honors and Awards

Visiting Scholar, Institute of Urban and Regional Development, University of California, Berkeley
President and Program Chair, Economic and Business Historical Society, 1987-1988
For her book The Limits of Power: Great Fires and the Process of City Growth in America:

Able Wolman Award of the American Public Works Association, 1987
Honorable mention, John Hope Franklin Award of the American Studies Association, 1987

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