Resume

• 1996

  JD

  Boston College Law School

  MBA

  Boston College - Wallace E. Carroll Graduate School of Management

• 1992

  BA

  Government

  International Relations

• Fundraising

  Time Management

  Blogging

  Research

  Leadership

  Teaching

  PowerPoint

  Higher Education

  Data Analysis

  Sustainable Development

  Entrepreneurship

  Corporate Social Responsibility

  Environmental Law

  Sustainability

  Policy Analysis

  Nonprofits

  Public Speaking

  Sustainable Business

  Commercial Litigation

  Sustainability Reporting

  Ultra Vires Statutes: Alive

  Kicking

  and a Means of Circumventing the Scalia Standing Gauntlet in Environmental Litigation

  Contrary to pervasive misperceptions

  ultra vires statutes are still on the books in 49 states and are still used by investors

  including in the courts of Delaware. This article clarifies terminology and reviews recent case law

  plus points out how ultra vires statutes can serve a constructive role in litigation that is consistent with the original intent and language of federal environmental protection statutes.

  Ultra Vires Statutes: Alive

  Kicking

  and a Means of Circumventing the Scalia Standing Gauntlet in Environmental Litigation

  This paper tests two hypotheses. The first hypothesis is that employee satisfaction is positively impacted when a company is perceived as performing well environmentally. The second hypothesis is that employee satisfaction is positively impacted by firm financial performance. To test these hypotheses

  the relationships between perceived environmental performance

  financial performance and employee satisfaction were tested using regression analysis. The results indicate a significant positive relationship between employee satisfaction and level of perceived environmental performance. This study does not find a significant relationship between employee satisfaction and firm financial value. \n\nThe practical implication for managers is that investments in environmental performance and related communications are important for reasons beyond those that are more commonly discussed

  such as external stakeholder relations. This study suggests that environmental performance and related communications should be an integral part of human resources management strategies to recruit

  motivate and retain the best talent. \n\nFor scholars

  this study suggests future directions for research in

  for example

  determining the causal mechanisms between actual environmental performance

  perceptions of relative environmental performance and employee satisfaction.

  A Greener Company Makes for Happier Employees More so than Does a More Valuable One: A Regression Analysis of Employee Satisfaction

  Perceived Environmental Performance and Firm Financial Value

  This teaching case challenges the reader to contemplate what they would do in the absence of a clear crisis or controversy. Good managers proactively solve problems before they become crises. Great leaders engage stakeholders to develop a vision and a plan to realize it. \n\nIn this case

  enough facts are presented to either engage in a discussion of principles and law-related research into creative courses of action. \n \nThe teaching note explains what really happened: how a food supply company realized the \"win-win-wins\" of adopting sustainable business practices

  and how third party standards and laws support the success of these initiatives. \n

  Sid Wainer & Son: A Growing Realization

  Adam Sulkowski & Sandra Waddock

  Beyond Sustainability Reporting: Integrated Reporting is Practiced

  Required and More Would Be Better

  10 U. St. Thomas L.J. 1060 (2013)

  Ninety-five percent of the Global Fortune 250

  along with thousands of other companies worldwide

  voluntarily report on their environmental

  societal

  and economic impacts. The practice is variously known as sustainability reporting

  corporate responsibility (CR) reporting

  corporate social responsibility (CSR) reporting

  citizenship reporting

  environmental

  societal

  and governance (ESG) reporting

  or triple bottom line (TBL) reporting. A growing number of countries now mandate or provide guidance related to this practice to some extent. For example

  in the United States

  the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act explicitly requires publicly traded companies to disclose data related to their supply chains of certain minerals. Should greater disclosures be explicitly and specifically required? Should companies begin greater disclosures for their own benefit? Do the basic principles of existing laws already require a greater amount of disclosure in our current context? If so

  what would be gained from greater and more explicit guidance from legislators or regulators such as the SEC? \n\nThis article summarizes the history

  current state

  and motivations and impacts of sustainability reporting and regulation-by-disclosure

  along with data on the present needs of investors and recent market trends. It also reviews the definition of materiality under U.S. securities laws and regulations—the key to understanding what data a company must publicly disclose for the benefit of investors. Based on our review of recent history

  the current needs of investors

  and the definition of materiality

  it is clear that existing laws and related rules already require greater disclosure of data\non environmental and societal impacts than commonly understood. The article concludes with recommendations for managers

  their attorneys

  accountants

  and policymakers

  and provokes further questions for constructive scholarship in the fields of business and law.

  Adam Sulkowski & Sandra Waddock

  Beyond Sustainability Reporting: Integrated Reporting is Practiced

  Required and More Would Be Better

  10 U. St. Thomas L.J. 1060 (2013)

  SHAKE YOUR STAKEHOLDER: FIRMS LEADING ENGAGEMENT TO CO-CREATE SUSTAINABLE VALUE

  R. Edward Freeman

  While most extant scholarship has focused on how stakeholders influence firms

  we propose that firms play a critical role in \" shaking \" stakeholders. Shaking stakeholders means to proactively initiate cooperation with those affected by a firm to alter awareness

  behavior

  and networks so as to catalyze change in society and the marketplace to reward co-created innovations in core operations of the firm that improve social and environmental impacts. Two previously underappreciated aspects of stakeholder relations are highlighted. First

  the firm can be the entity that leads engagement that shakes stakeholders out of complacency. Second

  firms can catalyze collaborative relationships to co-create sustainable value that is shared with stakeholders. We offer several cases to illustrate this strategy. While stakeholder shaking may be useful in any business environment

  global ecological crises

  societal problems

  and governance failures heighten the need for firms to take action to bring about profound and systemic changes.

  SHAKE YOUR STAKEHOLDER: FIRMS LEADING ENGAGEMENT TO CO-CREATE SUSTAINABLE VALUE

  Adam

  Sulkowski

  UMass Dartmouth

  Babson College

  Babson Park

  MA

  Faculty profile: http://www.babson.edu/Academics/faculty/profiles/Pages/sulkowski-adam.aspx\n\nReflections on voluntarily leaving a tenured position for a fresh challenge: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/adam-sulkowski/5-questions-to-ask-when-l_b_8052698.html

  Associate Professor

  Babson College

  Dartmouth

  MA

  Please see my CV at www.adamsulkowski.com for details on law

  entrepreneurship

  and sustainable business courses taught

  my research publications

  and innovations in experiential learning related to sustainability reporting.

  Associate Professor of Business Law and Sustainability

  UMass Dartmouth

  French

  Polish

  Fulbright Scholar

  Fulbright research scholar in Europe

  2014-2015.\nResearched and implemented issues in sustainable business

  public policy

  and law

  including deployment of best practices in sustainability reporting on behalf of Warsaw

  Poland.