Associate Professor of Supply Chain Management
Michael H. and Laura L. Rothkopf Early Career Professor
Director, Center for the Business of Sustainability (CBoS)
Smeal College of Business, The Pennsylvania State University
Research Areas
Circular Economy:
An inadvertent outcome of mass consumerism is ubiquitous surplus. Industrial facilities, commercial warehouses as well as homes have an abundance of surplus items with residual value; value that we rarely recognize, but someone else just might. My research examines online B2B (e.g. MNExchange), P2P (e.g. Uber) and C2C (e.g. Craigslist) channels for coordinating such surplus materials and capacity.
Environmental Policy and Practice:
With the changing climate, it is more important than ever to understand whether and when environmental policies have the desired impact. My research attempts to understand how organizations and consumers react to environmental legislation (e.g., e-waste laws), alternative policy approaches (e.g., technical assistance) as well as other external influences (e.g., controversies).
Climate and Business:
Recent events have shown that the climate threat to operations and supply chains is real. My research contributes to the raging debate on climate-change and its impacts on business and society. Specifically, my projects investigate the impact of extreme weather events (e.g., droughts, floods, hurricanes) on a variety of firm-level outcomes.