Green Matters

Green Management Matters Regardless

Executive Overview Today, it is undeniable that a new enthusiasm exists for green management, not only among managers but among business school students, though this enthusiasm is just starting to be tapped in a more formal way in curriculum, instructional materials, and faculty careers and advancement. Green management matters for many reasons, but fundamentally it matters because people expec...

Green Management Matters Only If It Yields More Green : An Economic / Strategic Perspective

Executive Overview This essay was written in response to the theme of this year’s Academy of Management meeting, “Green Management Matters.” I assert that firms should adopt “green management” practices only if such activities complement the organization’s businessand corporate-level strategies and ultimately enhance profitability or shareholder wealth. To illustrate this I outline an economic/...

Philosophy matters in brain matters

PURPOSE Although most neuroscientists and physicians would argue against Cartesian dualism, Descartes's version of the psyche/soma divide, which has been controversial since he proposed it in the seventeenth century, continues to haunt contemporary neurological diagnoses through terms such as functional, organic, and psychogenic. Drawing on my own experiences as a person with medically unexplai...

Matters of sex: sex matters.

Despite the popular concept that heart disease preferentially affects the male population, in every year for the past 16 years, cardiovascular disease has killed more women than men.1 Unfortunately, a disparity still exists between men and women in the diagnosis and aggressive treatment of heart disease. The perception that women are relatively protected is reflected by the fact that women are ...

Politics Matters: A Response to Recent Commentaries