Robert Sroufe is among the top global scientiests recognized by Stanford / Elsevier researchers for career impack with published work in Business Management, Environmental Science and Economics. He is among some of the highest-ranked scholars by ScholarGPS in Integrated Management and Environmental Resources Management, in the top 0.05% of scholars in this field worldwide. His scholarly work is expansive, including sustainability, integrated management, high-performance buildings, Supply Chain Management and operations. He is the founder of the Integrated Management Institute© , and the Falk Chair of Socially Responsible Management at Chatham University within the interdisciplinary College of Environment, Leadership & Management (ELM). His research utilizes a systemic outlook to understand triple bottom line performance, extending TBL to the contemporary term integrated bottom line (IBL) metrics reported to internal and external stakeholders. More specifically, he focuses on the most successful systems and tools for measuring and managing the relationship between performance and the environmental, social, and financial practices of businesses. His list of publications is primarily about: how firms can create productive management systems, integrate them across business functions, and measure and manage their performance; the main drivers of sustainability; the process and importance of existing buildings becoming high-performance buildings; the UN Sustainable Development Goals; and the strategic change process that occurs during a firm's sustainable development. As an En-ROADS Climate Ambassadorhttps://www.climateinteractive.org/en-roads/climate-ambassadors/ambassador/robert-sroufe/, Dr. Robert Sroufe facilitates interactive climate sessions using the En-ROADS Climate Solutions Simulator developed by Climate Interactive and MIT Sloan. His research publications can be found on the Google Scholar , and Research Gate platforms. Michigan State University conferred him a Ph.D.
Awards The Aspen Institute Business & Society Program awarded him the Ideas Worth Teaching Award for his course Sustainability Tools and Processes for New Initiatives. He received the Academy of Management Organizations & Natural Environment (ONE) Division Inaugural Teaching Award and the Wickham Skinner Teaching Innovative Award from the Production and Operations Management Production Society (POMS). He was a finalist for the Aspen Institute's Faculty Pioneer Award. The Decision Sciences Institute awarded him with the Instructional Innovation Award for his Sustainability Tools and Processes for New Initiatives course. Dr. Sroufe was awarded the University Creative Teaching Award by Duquesne University. As the curriculum lead for the MBA-Sustainable Business Practices program, he was part of the faculty that awarded the Page Prize for Best U.S. Environmental Curriculum. Under the direction of Dr. Robert Sroufe, Duquesne University's MBA-Sustainable Business Practices program was ranked as the #1 Better World MBA program in the United States and #4 program in the world by Corporate Knights Magazine. His work has been featured in a number of journals, including the Journal of Operations Management, the Production and Operations Management Society, the European Journal of Operations Research, the Journal of Supply Chain Management, International Journal of Production Research, the Production and Inventory Management Journal, Greener Management International, and Business Strategy and the Environment. His book Integrated Management: How Sustainability Creates Value for Any Business was released with strong global sales of both the first edition and second edition while also awarded the Responsible Research in Business and Management, co-sponsored by the International Association for Chinese Management Research and the Community for Responsible Research in Business and Management. This book is used as the basis for curriculum in the top-ranked MBA Sustainability programs in the USA and other programs internationally. His book Developing Sustainable Supply Chains: Management Insights, Issues, and Tools, co-authored by Steven A. Melnyk, was awarded the Best Book Award from the Academy of Management Organizations and the Environment Division and included in the Sustainable Brands Top Sustainability Books Collection. The supply chain books have evolved into their third edition as Strategic Sustainable Supply Chain Management (S3CM) books for practitioners and academic programs.
Education and career He earned his Ph.D. in Operations as well as a dual M.B.A. in Materials and Logistics Management, along with Procurement from Michigan State University. He began his teaching career during his time at Michigan State University.
He is currently at Chatham University. Before starting the MBA-Sustainable Business Practices program at Duquesne University, he was an assistant professor at Boston College focused on operations management. He has also held professional positions with the Department of Defense, the National Pollution Prevention Center, and is involved in advising and consulting for a variety of firms and is a keynote speaker.
Publications Books
Sroufe, R.P., and Melnyk, S.A., Developing Strategic Sustainable Supply Chains: Management Insights, Issues, and Tools: 3rd Edition Foundations, () (e-copy); () (hard copy); Publisher: Business Expert Press Sroufe, R.P., and Melnyk, S.A., Developing Strategic Sustainable Supply Chains: Management Insights, Issues, and Tools: 3rd Edition Implementation, () (e-book); () (hard copy); Publisher: Business Expert Press Sroufe, R., Stevenson, C., and Eckenrode, B., The Power of Existing Buildings: Save Money, Improve Health, and Reduce Environmental Impacts, () Publisher: Island Press, Sroufe, R.P., and Melnyk, S.A., Developing Sustainable Supply Chains: Management Insights, Issues, and Tools, (e-book); (paperback) Publisher: Business Expert Press Sroufe, R.P., and Sarkis J., Strategic Sustainability: The State of the Art in Corporate Environmental Management Systems, Book publisher: Greenleaf Publishing, foreword by ANSI-ASQ National Accreditation Board (ANAB),
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External links Chatham University Bio