Christine M. Rosen
Associate Professor | Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA, UNITED STATES
Expert on history of business leadership of anti-pollution movements and today’s struggles over how to transition to clean energy
Areas of Expertise (6)
Sustainable Business Strategy
Business History
Green Chemistry
Sustainable Product Design
Business History and the Environment
American Environmental History
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Education (3)
Harvard University: PhD, History
Harvard University: MA, History
Wellesley College: BA, History
Links (2)
Honors & Awards (3)
Visiting Scholar
Institute of Urban and Regional Development, UC Berkeley
Abel Wolman Award of the American Public Works Association
Awarded for The Limits of Power: Great Fires and the Process of City Growth in America, 1987
Honorable mention, John Hope Franklin Award of the American Studies Association
Awarded for The Limits of Power: Great Fires and the Process of City Growth in America, 1987
Selected External Service & Affiliations (7)
- 2001 – present, Editorial Board Member, Environmental History
- 2002 – present, Editorial Board Member, California Management Review
- Ad Hoc Reviewer (Journals): Business History Review, Enterprise and Society, Environmental History Review, Economic History Review, Journal of Industrial Ecology, Journal of Cleaner Production, California Management Review
- Ad Hoc Reviewer (Books): Yale University Press, Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, University of Pittsburgh Press
- Member, Business History Conference (BHC)
- Member, American Society for Environmental History (ASEH)
- Member, Society for the History of Technology, American Society for Legal History (SHOT)
Positions Held (1)
At Haas since 1983
1992 – present, Associate Professor, Haas School of Business 2010 – present, Associate Director, Berkeley Center for Green Chemistry 2006 – 2011, Director, American Studies Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Major, L&S. 1983 – 1992, Assistant Professor, Business and Public Policy, Haas School of Business 1983 – Lecturer, Legal Studies Program, UC Berkeley 1982 – 1983, Lecturer, Business and Public Policy, Haas School of Business 1982 – Lecturer, Department of History, UC Berkeley 1979 – Lecturer, Department of City and Regional Planning, UC Berkeley 1976 – 1977, Instructor, Department of History, Princeton University
Media Appearances (3)
What Does A Biden Administration Mean For Businesses?
KPCC AirTalk radio
2020-11-11
Assoc. Prof. Christine Rosen joined this radio program to discuss what a Biden administration means for business. "(He) is going to bring a completely different attitude towards green business, sustainable business, and ESG reporting," Rosen said.
COVID-19 Triggers Dip in Carbon Emissions and Pollution
Engineering.com online
2020-04-01
“It’s a useful thing to draw a parallel between these two kinds of crises,” said Christine Rosen, associate professor at University of California-Berkeley Haas School of Business.
Experts say Theranos 'too good to be true'
ABC7 online
2018-06-15
"Unfortunately it was too good to be true," said Assoc. Prof. Christine Rosen of the Haas Business and Public Policy Group, who originally had had high hopes for Holmes and Theranos. "She, as a cutting edge pioneering woman in this area -- it was a big fizzle."
Selected Papers & Publications (21)
Applying Utilitarianism and Deontology in Managing Bisphenol-A Risks in the United States
Ethics of Chemistry: From Poison Gas to Climate Engineering
Christine Meisner Rosen, Abigail Martin and Alastair Iles
2021
Undoing Chemical Industry Lock-ins: Polyvinyl Chloride and Green Chemistry
Ethics of Chemistry: From Poison Gas to Climate Engineering
Christine Meisner Rosen, Abigail Martin and Alastair Iles
2021
Green Design Tools: Building Values and Politics into Material Choices
Science, Technology, & Human Values
Christine Meisner Rosen, Akos Kokai and Alastair Iles
2020
Mapping the Product Life Cycle: Rare Earth Elements in Electronics
Case Studies in the Environment
Christine Meisner Rosen, Susie Levy and Alastair Iles
2017
Undoing Chemical Industry Lock-ins: Polyvinyl Chloride and Green Chemistry
HYLE – International Journal for Philosophy of Chemistry
Christine Meisner Rosen, Alastair Iles and Abigail N. Martin
2017
Business Leadership in the Movement to Regulate Industrial Air Pollution in Early and Late Nineteenth Century America
Green Capitalism? Business and the Environment in the Twentieth Century
Christine Meisner Rosen
2017
Applying Utilitarianism and Deontology in Managing Bisphenol-A Risks in the United States
HYLE – International Journal of the Philosophy of Chemistry
Christine Meisner Rosen, Alastair Iles and Abigail N. Martin
2016
What is Business History?
Enterprise & Society
Christine Meisner Rosen
2013
Fact Versus Conjecture in the History of Industrial Waste Utilization
Economic Journal Watch
Christine Meisner Rosen
2012
Comment: Conceptualizing Hazards
At Work in the World: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on the History of Occupation and Environmental Health
Christine Meisner Rosen
2012
The Role of Business Leaders in Community Sustainability Coalitions: An Historical Perspective
Sustainable Communities
Christine Meisner Rosen
2010
Business Leadership in the Movement to Regulate Industrial Air Pollution in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century America
Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte / Economic History Yearbook
Christine Meisner Rosen
2009
The Role of Pollution Regulation and Litigation in the Development of the U.S. Meatpacking Industry, 1865-1880
Enterprise and Society: The International Journal of Business History
Christine Meisner Rosen
2007
Doing Business History in the Age of Global Climate Change
Enterprise and Society: The International Journal of Business History
Christine Meisner Rosen
2007
Environmental Sustainability in the Twenty-First Century
Environmental History
Christine Meisner Rosen
2007
Business and the Environment
Major Problems in American Business History: Documents and Essays
Christine Meisner Rosen and Christopher C. Sellers
2006
The Business-Environment Connection
In “Anniversary Forum: What’s Next for Environmental History?”
Christine Meisner Rosen
2005
’Knowing’ Industrial Pollution: Nuisance Law and the Power of Tradition in a Time of Rapid Economic Change, 1840-1865
Environmental History
Christine Meisner Rosen
2003
Industrial Ecology and the Transformation of Corporate Environmental Management: A Business Historian’s Perspective
Inventing for the Environment
Christine Meisner Rosen
2003
Product Recovery With Some Byte: An Overview of Management Challenges and Environmental Consequences in Reverse Manufacturing for the US Computer Industry,y
11 Journal of Cleaner Production
Christine Meisner Rosen
2003
The Role of Voluntary Industry Standards in Environmental Supply Chain Management: An Institutional Economics Perspective
6 Journal of Industrial Ecology
Christine Meisner Rosen, Sara Beckman, and Janet Bercovitz
2002
Teaching (7)
Energy and Civilization
UGBA 193B - L&S 126 with James Rector and Ahmed Badruzzaman 2020 - present
UC Berkeley Big Ideas Course Program
2016 - 2019
History of American Business
UGBA 172, AS C172 1999 - present
Green Chemistry: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Sustainability
Chem – SPH – ESPM - Eng 234 Spring 2011, 2013, 2014
Ethics and Decision Making in Green Product Design: Business, Science and Policy Perspectives
ESPM 290 – MBA 296.1A Spring 2012
Designing Sustainable Materials and Products: Problem Solving for Society and the Environment
ESPM 290 – MBA 290 Spring 2015
Energy, Sustainability, and Business Innovation
MBA 290 – Eng 298 – Info 290 with Drew Isaacs 2007- 2009
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