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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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The Ray C. Anderson Center for Sustainable Business (“Center”) invites you to the next talk in our Business, Environment, and Society Speaker Series. The event is open to the public.
Kalkanci will present her talk, engage in a Q&A with Center Faculty Director Beril Toktay, and take questions from the audience.
Speaker Bio:
Basak Kalkanci is an associate professor of operations management at the Scheller College of Business at Georgia Tech. Her research focuses on socially and environmentally responsible supply chain management, and contracting and the role of information in decentralized supply chains. Her research aims to lay the necessary groundwork to enable real-time measurement and management of social and environmental impacts in global supply chains. She earned her Ph.D in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University in 2010 and her B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Bogazici University in 2004. She was a postdoctoral associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 2011 to 2013. Her work appeared in premier journals including Management Science, Operations Research, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, and Production and Operations Management. She is the recipient of the Paul Kleindorfer Award in Sustainability (2020), Alliance for Research on Corporate Sustainability Emerging Sustainability Scholar Award (2019), Georgia Power Professor of Excellence (2015), Management Science Meritorious Service Award (2015, 2017, 2019, 2020), and M&SOM Meritorious Service Award (2014).
This is a Scheller Charge app affiliated event.
Due to current distance-learning circumstances, this event will be hosted virtually. The virtual platform will be BlueJeans. Please see below for instructions to download this software and join the meeting.
The Ray C. Anderson Center for Sustainable Business was founded in 2013 to act 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. In all, Scheller provides students unparalleled breadth in environmental sustainability, ethics, corporate social responsibility, social entrepreneurship, and values-based leadership.