Faculty and Executive Leadership Directory

 

Christine M. Rosen Associate Professor Haas Business and Public Policy Group Corporate Responsibility Email: click on the envelope icon below for full email address Academic Status: On leave Office Hours: By appointment, F577 Curriculum Vitae (in PDF format, Acrobat Reader required)

Education

BA, History, Wellesley College
MA, History, Harvard University
PhD, History, Harvard University

Positions Held

At Haas since 1983
1992 - present, Associate Professor, Haas School of Business
1983 - 1992, Assistant Professor, Business and Public Policy, Haas School of Business
1983, Lecturer, Legal Studies Program, UC Berkeley
1982 - 1983, Lecturer, Business and Public Policy, Haas School of Business
1982, Lecturer, Department of History, UC Berkeley
1979, Lecturer, Department of City and Regional Planning, UC Berkeley
1976 - 1977, Instructor, Department of History, Princeton University

External Service and Assignments

• 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, UC 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 Inventing for the Environment, edited by Heather Bruce and Joyce Bedi. Cambridge: MIT Press.
• "Environmental of Supply Management in the Computer Industry, Part I: A Transactions Cost Economics Perspective," with Janet Bercovitz and Sara Beckman. Journal of Industrial Ecology 4 (Fall 2001): 83-103.
• "Environmental Strategy and Competitive Advantage," (guest editor). California Management Review (Spring 2001): 8-84.
• "Environmentally Sound Supply Chain Management: Implementation in the Computer Industry," with Sara Beckman and Janet Bercovitz, in Handbook of Environmentally Conscious Manufacturing, edited by Christian Madu, 362-383. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001. 
• "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

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

Honors and Awards

• Visiting Scholar, Institute of Urban and Regional Development, UC Berkeley
• Able Wolman Award of the American Public Works Association, for The Limits of Power: Great Fires and the Process of City Growth in America, 1987
• Honorable mention, John Hope Franklin Award of the American Studies Association, for The Limits of Power: Great Fires and the Process of City Growth in America, 1987

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