Rice University’s Douglas Schuler to Speak at Western Oct. 28

Western Washington University’s College of Business and Economics will host Douglas Schuler, associate professor of Business and Public Policy at Rice University, for its Sustainability Speaker Series on Friday, Oct. 28.

Schuler will deliver formal presentation entitled “Shipping Container to Sterile Box: Shackling the Sun for Social Good” from 2 to 3 p.m. in Academic West 204.

The event is free and open to the public.

Schuler received his bachelor’s degree in Business Admission from the University of California at Berkeley and a doctorate in Strategic Management from the University of Minnesota’s School of Management. At Rice University, Schuler serves on the Executive Committee for Rice 360 Institute for Global Health Technologies.

Schuler’s principal research interests are corporate political activity, public policy, corporate social responsibility, and nonprofit organizations. Schuler also does research about the introduction of health technologies into low resources developing markets. Schuler has written about nongovernmental and nonprofit organizations, especially critical about the business models they adopt to serve their clients. With a colleague, he is investigating such organizations in the context of food desert interventions in Houston.

Schuler’s talk is sponsored by Western’s Wilder Distinguished Professorship of Business and Sustainability.

For more information, contact Craig Dunn, Wilder Distinguished Professor of Business and Sustainability at Western Washington University, at (360) 650-2593 or Craig.Dunn@wwu.edu.