Ray C. Anderson Center for Sustainable Business
Faculty Director (2013 – present)
The Ray C. Anderson Center for Sustainable Business, anchored in the Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business, acts as a catalyst and connector, bringing together students, research faculty, companies, and entrepreneurs to create an environment where business-driven solutions to sustainability challenges can take shape and thrive.
Drawdown Georgia Business Compact
Facilitated by the Ray C. Anderson Center for Sustainable Business, the Drawdown Georgia Business Compact is a business-focused collaborative initiative focused on galvanizing climate action in Georgia. The Compact builds on comprehensive solution research and ensures diverse participation across Georgia’s economy.
Serve-Learn-Sustain
Executive Faculty Co-Director (2015 – 2021)
Serve-Learn-Sustain is a campus-wide academic initiative at Georgia Tech, working with all six colleges to offer students opportunities inside and outside the classroom to collaborate with diverse partners – across the community, non-profit, government, academic, and business sectors – on key sustainability challenges. Through SLS, students use the knowledge and skills they are acquiring at GT to help “create sustainable communities.”
Alliance for Research on Corporate Sustainability
Board of Directors
The Alliance for Research on Corporate Sustainability (ARCS) is a partnership among academic institutions created to provide data and networking opportunities to facilitate research on corporate sustainability. As environmental issues have grown in complexity and scope, there is growing recognition that to gain ground on our most pressing environmental issues will require the proactive engagement and leadership of the business sector. ARCS helps develop greater understanding of the opportunities and limits of policies and strategies to create sustainable businesses by facilitating rigorous academic research.
Georgia Tech Strategic Energy Institute
Faculty Advisory Board (January 2014 – Present)
The Georgia Tech Strategic Energy Institute is one of Georgia Tech’s ten Interdisciplinary Research Institutes. SEI integrates energy activities across the nation’s largest technology university – from generation, to distribution, to use. Whether it’s commercializing a technology to address a specific challenge or designing a roadmap for focusing resources, we understand the systems, technologies, and context of the ever-evolving nature of energy production and use.
INFORMS MSOM Society
President (July 2012 – June 2013)
The Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Society (MSOM) promotes the enhancement and dissemination of knowledge, and the efficiency of industrial practice, related to the operations function in manufacturing and service enterprises. The methods which MSOM members apply in order to help the operations function add value to products and services are derived from a wide range of scientific fields, including operations research and management science, mathematics, economics, statistics, information systems and artificial intelligence. The members of MSOM include researchers, educators, consultants, practitioners and students, with backgrounds in these and other applied sciences.
Production and Operations Management Society
VP of Finance (May 2010 – April 2013)
Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) is an international professional organization representing the interests of POM professionals from around the world. The purposes of the Society are: 1) to extend and integrate knowledge that contributes to the improved understanding and practice of production and operations management (POM); 2) to disseminate information on POM to managers, scientists, educators, students, public and private organizations, national and local governments, and the general public; and 3) to promote the improvement of POM and its teaching in public and private manufacturing and service organizations throughout the world.