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Sandra Waddock

Professor, Carroll School Scholar of Corporate Responsibility, and The Thomas J. Galligan, Jr. '41, DBA '75 (hon.) Chair in Strategic and Operations Management

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Sandra Waddock is Galligan Chair of Strategy, Carroll School Scholar of Corporate Responsibility, and Professor of Management at the Carroll School of Management at Boston College and a faculty affiliate of the 天美传媒app Schiller Institute for Integrated Sciences. Waddock teaches a University Capstone Course entitled "Leadership and Mindfulness." She has published more than 200 papers and book chapters and 16 books (as of 2023) on topics ranging from the catalyzing transformation, whole system change, eco(logical)-social narratives, intellectual shamanism, and corporate citizenship and responsibility, among numerous others. Current research interests are whole system transformation, stewardship of the future, eco-social narratives, intellectual shamanism, and management education, among others. Waddock has received numerous lifetime achievement awards, among them election as a Fellow of the Academy of Management in 2024, a PRME (Principles for Responsible Management Education) Pioneer Award for leadership in 2017, the Lifetime Achievement CSR Award in 2016 from Humboldt-Universit?t Berlin, School of Business and Economics, 7th International Conference on Corporate Sustainability and Responsibility, and the 2015 Humanistic Management Leadership award. Her book ,?which won the 2024 Academy of Management Social Issues in Management Division’s Best Book Award, describes an innovative process for bringing about transformative change towards just, inclusive, and equitable societies in a flourishing natural world. Her 2014 book Intellectual Shamans?received the 2018 Humanistic Management Association’s Best Book Award for pedagogy and policy, and received the Social Issues in Management Best Book Award in 2011.

Waddock has been a visiting scholar at the Harvard Kennedy School (twice), the Darden Graduate School of Business, University of Virginia, Griffith University (Brisbane, Australia), and the University of Pretoria South Africa Centre for Responsible Leadership. She served as Distinguished Lecturer at Kansas State University and as co-Verizon professor at Bentley University. At Boston College, she co-founded the former Leadership for Change Program and the Initiative for Responsible Investment (now at Harvard Kennedy School’s Hauser Center). She serves on editorial boards of numerous journals in the business in society arena, and has guest edited special issues for Business & Society, Organization & Environment, The Journal of Corporate Citizenship (and was editor of from 2002-2004).

Her recent paper with the Global Assessment for a New Economics team, (Kenter et al., 2025) was published in Nature Sustainability. Waddock was a lead author in Chapter 2 of the IPBES , published in 2025. Waddock’s papers have appeared in Business Strategy and the Environment, Sustainability Science, Global Sustainability, Sustainability, Organization & Environment, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Learning & Education, Academy of Management Executive, Strategic Management Journal, Business & Society, Management Learning, Humanistic Management Journal, Futures, Cadmus, Journal of Management for Global Sustainability, Journal of Awareness-Based System Change, Business and Society Review, and The Journal of Corporate Citizenship, among numerous other journals and books. Her 1997 paper with Samuel B. Graves entitled "Quality of Management and Quality of Stakeholder Relations: Are They Synonymous?" was the recipient of the 1997 Moskowitz Prize given by the Social Investment Forum.

Waddock received her BA from Northeastern University, an MA degree in English Literature from Boston College, and both her MBA (1979) and DBA (1985) from Boston University. She served for three years on the founding steward team of the?Bounce Beyond Initiative (2020-2022), and as a member of the Global Assessment for a New Economics (GANE) team, among other appointments.

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