Bradley Googins Ph.D
July 16, Opening Plenary and Afternoon Plenary
Bradley Googins Ph.D is the Executive Director of the Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship and a professor in the Department of Organizational Studies at Boston College's Wallace E. Carroll School of Management. Since becoming Executive Director, he has undertaken a major restructuring to better serve the over 400 corporate members of The Center and to enhance its research agenda as part of the School of Management. In 1990 Dr. Googins founded the Center on Work & Family at Boston College. He has authored several books, monographs, and articles on corporate issues, including The Journey Towards Corporate Citizenship in the United States and Strategic Responses: Corporate Involvement in Family and Community Issues. Dr Googins has also served as principle investigator for many research grants on corporate citizenship including "The Role of Corporations in Community and Economic Development" (Ford Foundation) and "The State of Corporate Citizenship: A Global Survey" (Hitachi Foundation). His most recent book is Beyond Good Company: Next Generation Corporate Citizenship. The book presents compelling cases that an increasing number of companies and their values-driven leaders are redefining the business-of-business today making social responsibility an integrated corporate strategy. At present, Dr. Googins is focusing on developing a global educational and research network on corporate citizenship.
Bradley Googins Ph.D is a graduate of Boston College, He received a Masters in Social Work, Community Organization and Social Planning from the Boston College Graduate School of Social Work, and a Ph.D. in social policy from the Heller Graduate School at Brandeis University.
