The Fowler Center for Business as an Agent of World Benefit at Weatherhead School of Management exists to create a world where business can prosper, human beings can flourish and nature can thrive.
Interested in learning more about our research on sustainable value? Explore our collection relating to the subject, published by faculty at the Weatherhead School.
- “Global Inquiry as a Form of Positive Institution Building: A Living Case Story on The Generative Power of Story-getting” (Fry, Abaza, 2022)
- “Introduction: A Moonshot Moment for Business and the Great Economic Opportunities of Our Time” (Cooperrider, Selian, 2022)
- “One Giant Leap: How Organization Development and Change Can Help Organizations, Industries, and World-changing Megacommunities Lead the Net-Positive Earthshot” (Cooperrider, Godwin, 2022)
- The Business of Building a Better World: The Leadership Revolution That is Changing Everything (Cooperrider, Selian, 2022)
- “Toward Reinvention of Your Theory of the Business: 5 Principles for Thriving in a Disrupted World” (Zhexembayeva, Cooperrider, 2022)
- “Innovating to Flourish: Toward a Theory of Organizing for Positive Impact” (Ch. 16) (Dhar, Fry, 2021)
- “Global Challenges as Opportunity to Transform Business for Good” (Laszlo, Cooperrider, Fry 2020)
- “Positive-impact companies: Toward a new paradigm of value creation” (Pavez, Kendall, Laszlo 2020)
- “Quantum Management: The Practices and Science of Business-led Flourishing” (Laszlo, 2020)
- Voices of Practitioner Scholars in Management (Cola, Lyytinen, Nartker, 2020)
- “The Changing Role of Business: A Comment on the Recent U.S. Business Roundtable Statement” (Laszlo, Widing, 2019)
- “A Time for Action: Appreciative Inquiry, Peacebuilding, and the Making of a Nobel Nomination” (Cooperrider, 2018)
- “Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility is the Future of Management” (Haski-Leventhal, Cooperrider, 2018)
- “An Appreciative Inquiry into Business as an Agent of World Benefit” (Fry, 2017)
- “Positive Capitalism & the Opportunity of Mirror Flourishing: The Grammar of Interconnection is the Business Discipline of our Age” (Cooperrider, 2016)
- “TriCiclos: The challenging of scaling recycling in Latin America” (Pavez, Bello, Laszlo, Gullett, 2015)
- “Appreciative Inquiry and Sustainable Value Creation” (Laszlo, Pose, 2014)
- “Divided Loyalists or Conditional Cooperators? Creating Consensus About Cooperation in Multiple Simultaneous Social Dilemmas” (McCarter, Samek, Sheremeta, 2014)
- “Exploring Transformative Innovation Through a World Inquiry” (Bright, Fry, Cooperrider, 2014)
- Flourishing Enterprise: The New Spirit of Business (Laszlo, Saillant, Cooperrider, Brown, 2014)
- Industrialization and Language in India (Clingingsmith, 2014)
- Business as an Agent of World Benefit (Widing, Cooperrider, Laszlo, 2013)
- “Factors that influence the safety and environmental performance of the Fortune 500 companies” (Lyytinen, Gaskin, Klossner, 2013)
- Generativity: Reconceptualizing the Benefits of Green Buildings (Fry, Sharma, 2013)
- Organizational Generativity: The Appreciative Inquiry Summit and a Scholarship of Transformation (Cooperrider, Zandee, Godwin, Avital, Boland, 2013)
- “Strategic Convening for Generative Impact: Enabling Systemic Change in Complex Environments” (Cooperrider, Sherman, Woychick, 2013)
- The Positive Psychology of Sustainable Enterprise (Cooperrider, Fry, 2013)
- “The Vertigo of New Vision: Business as an Agent of World Benefit” (Cooperrider, 2013)
- “Corporate Citizenship is a Matter of World Affairs” (Cooperrider, Fry, 2012)
- “Embedded Sustainability and the Innovation Potential of the UN Global Compact's Environmental Principles” (Cooperrider, Zhexembayeva, 2012)
- “Embedding Sustainability: How the Field of Organization Development and Change Can Help Companies Harness the Next Big Competitive Advantage” (Ludema, Laszlo, Lynch, 2012)
- Innovation's New Frontier (Cooperrider, Laszlo, 2012)
- “The Concentration Effect of Strengths: How the Whole System Ai Summit Brings Out the Best in Human Enterprise” (Cooperrider, 2012)
- “The Sustainable Design Factory” (Cooperrider, 2012)
- “Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting: The Growing Need for Input from the Accounting Profession” (Jonas, Jones III, 2011)
- “Editorial: Facing the Complexities of Corporate Responsibility and Accountability” (Fry, Cooperrider, 2011)
- “Embedded Sustainability: A Strategy for Market Leaders” (Laszlo, Zhexembayeva, 2011)
- Embedded Sustainability: the Next Big Competitive Advantage (Laszlo, Zhexebayeva, 2011)
- “Fairmount Mineral” (Chatterjee, Sharma, 2011)
- “Positive Organization Developement: Innovation Inspired Change in a New Economy and Ecology of Strengths” (Cooperrider, Godwin, 2011)
- “Socially Responsible Communication: Shifting from Access and Informing to Engaging and Interacting” (Fry, Cooperrider, 2011)
- “The Power of Self-Synchronising Expectations: Realities Are Not What They Used to Be” (Cooperrider, Fry, 2011)
- “Building a Green City on a Blue Lake: A Model for Building a Local Sustainable Economy” (Glavas, Senge, Cooperrider, 2010)
- “Can Stakeholder Engagement be Generative?” (Fry, Cooperrider, 2010)
- “Design Inspired Corporate Citizenship” (Cooperrider, Fry, 2010)
- “Developing Tomorrow's Business Leaders to Enact Corporate Citizenship” (Fry, Cooperrider, 2010)
- Developing the Whole Person through Generative Relationships (Fry, 2010)
- “Foreword” (Cooperrider, 2010)
- “Introduction to Positive Design and Appreciative Construction” (Thachenkery, Avital, Cooperrider, 2010)
- “Managing as Designing in an Era of Massive Innovation” (Cooperrider 2010)
- “Positive Design and Appreciative Construction: From Sustainable Development to Sustainable Value” (Thachenkery, Cooperrider, Avital, 2010)
- Sustainability: A Whole Systems Perspective (Richley, 2010)
- “A Journal That Makes a Difference” (Cooperrider, Fry, 2009)
- “Is Corporate Citizenship Spreading and Shrinking?” (Cooperrider, Fry, 2009)
- The Sustainable Company (Laszlo, 2003)
- “Foreword: Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility is the Future of Management.” (Cooperrider, 2018)
- “Learning to Cooperate: A model at the nexus of business and society and its impact around the world.” (Richley, 2008)