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Klaus Weber

Klaus Weber

Klaus Weber

Professor of Management & Organizations at Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management

Northwestern Kellogg School of Management
Global Hub 5125
Evanston, IL 60208
United States

 

847-491-2201

 

TEACHES:

ISEN 405 Corporate Sustainability and Value Creation (1.0 credit)


Professor Klaus Weber is an instructor within Northwestern's Master of Science in Energy and Sustainability (MSES) Program.

He is a Professor of Management & Organizations, and previously served as the deputy director of the  Northwestern Buffett Institute for Global Affairs. He is also affiliated with the Department of Sociology and the Institute for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern (ISEN).

His research is grounded in cultural and institutional analysis, with substantive interests in the intersection between social movements, organizations and markets; economic globalization; and environmental sustainability.

Klaus' research has been published in journals such as Administrative Science Quarterly, American Sociological Review, Organization Science, Organization Studies, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Strategic Management Journal and Harvard Business Review. His work has won best paper awards at the American Sociological Association, Administrative Science Quarterly, and the SYNTEC Conseil en Management. He was a senior editor at Organization Science and has guest edited volumes for Organization Studies and Organization Science.

At Kellogg, Klaus teaches MBA courses on environmental sustainability and on power in organizations; and doctoral seminars on cultural analysis, organization theory and research methods.

Professor Weber received his PhD from the University of Michigan and joined the Kellogg faculty in 2003.