I worked in and around the federal Environmental Protection Agency from 1977 through the 1980s and was able to make practical use of my two main intellectual interests: 1. Environmental policy and 2. Organizational management. These were two of the areas I concentrated in while in graduate school. For a long time, I thought of them as relatively distinct areas. In 1988, I wrote a management book called The Effective Public Manager and later I wrote a book about environmental regulation entitled Understanding Environmental Policy. But then I started to consider how issues like energy efficiency, waste management, environmental liability, and risk were becoming major concerns for organizational managers and major elements of the cost structure of private, public, and nonprofit organizations. It seemed that my two areas of interest were being merged. Organizational management was changing in response to our more crowded, polluted, and developed planet.
The changing nature of organizations and management led us to build a new management Master’s program we called Sustainability Management. Along with colleagues in the Earth Institute, I developed that curriculum in 2008 and 2009 and in partnership with the School of Continuing Education (now the School of Professional Studies), we launched Columbia’s MS in Sustainability Management in 2010. The program’s curriculum required management, finance, financial management, economics, statistics, and the regulatory environment of...
During August 2026, a series of misleading, fabricated and falsely contextualised claims circulated across social media platforms and media accounts in Bharat. The claims covered electoral rolls, ...