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GCIC Intellectual | Giulio M. Gallarotti

GCIC expert consultants help forward-thinking decision makers and organizations (cities, public agencies, corporations, educational entities and NGOs) to better understand the dynamic climate challenge and provide them with the tools and insights to facilitate solutions. Through research, dialogue, consulting and entrepreneurship.

We focus on: climate, decarbonization, energy, resources, circular economy, sustainable business, green finance, and transformation of cities and regions.

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1. Profile

 

  • Professor of Government at Wesleyan University

  • Adjunct Professor of Political Science at Columbia University

  • Research Interests:

  • International Relations, African American, Foreign Relations, Global, Imperial History, Intellectual History, Political History, Slavery

  • Academic introduction:

  • Giulio M. Gallarotti is Professor of Government at Wesleyan University and Adjunct Professor of Political Science at Columbia University. He has also been a Visiting Professor in the Department of Economic Theory at the University of Rome (1994). He has published numerous articles in leading journals across five disciplines: economics, politics, law, history, and business.

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2. Concept of corporate environmentalism                  

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Professor Giulio Gallarotti has published an article entitled “It Pays to Be Green: The Managerial Incentive Structure and Environmentally Sound Strategies” in the Columbia Journal of World Business, about how corporate environmentalism could actually be quite profitable.

The traditional view in management circles about the relationship between the environment and business can best be summed up as pollution pays, pollution prevention doesn't. Notwithstanding the recent proliferation of literature on the benefits of green management, many managers continue to see environmentally sound strategies as detrimental to the principal goals of profitability, maintaining markets, controlling costs and efficient production. Such conclusions about the environmental drag on business are based on mistaken assumptions about the incentives businesses encounter. Stricter government regulation of the environment in developed nations changed the equation. There are also many opportunities for managers to profit from environmentally sound strategies that are independent of public pressures. Together, these two types of incentives serve to turn the traditional vision about the incompatibility between good business and the environment on its head: it is becoming increasingly apparent that, indeed, pollution prevention pays while pollution doesn't.

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