Adam J. Sulkowski

Babson College

Associate Professor of Law & Sustainability

231 Forest St.

Babson Park, MA 02457-0310

United States

http://www.babson.edu/Academics/faculty/profiles/Pages/sulkowski-adam.aspx

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1.

A Greener Company Makes for Happier Employees More so than Does a More Valuable One: A Regression Analysis of Employee Satisfaction, Perceived Environmental Performance and Firm Financial Value

Number of pages: 15 Posted: 14 Dec 2009 Last Revised: 18 May 2013
Cassandra Walsh and Adam J. Sulkowski
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth - Charlton College of Business and Babson College
Downloads 2,451 (8,016)
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employee satisfaction, environmental performance, firm financial performance, Tobin's Q

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Financial Performance, Pollution Measures and the Propensity to Use Corporate Responsibility Reporting: Implications for Business and Legal Scholarship

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 21 Jul 2009 Last Revised: 06 Oct 2014
Adam J. Sulkowski and D. Steven White
Babson College and University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth - Charlton College of Business
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Corporate responsiblity reporting, financial performance, pollution, Tobin's Q, Logistic regression

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Ultra Vires Statutes: Alive, Kicking, and a Means of Circumventing the Scalia Standing Gauntlet in Environmental Litigation

Journal of Environmental Law and Litigation, Vol. 14, No. 1, p. 75, 2009
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 21 Nov 2009
Adam J. Sulkowski
Babson College
Downloads 1,639 (15,302)
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Ultra Vires, Standing, Environmental, Litigation

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Cyber-Extortion: Duties and Liabilities Related to the Elephant in the Server Room

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 13 Jan 2007 Last Revised: 04 Apr 2015
Adam J. Sulkowski
Babson College
Downloads 1,247 (23,065)
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cybercrime, extortion, cyber, crime, online, damages, duty, liability, downstream

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Beyond Sustainability Reporting: Integrated Reporting is Practiced, Required & More Would Be Better

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 19 Jun 2014
Adam J. Sulkowski and Sandra Waddock
Babson College and Boston College - Carroll School of Management
Downloads 1,132 (26,590)
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Integrated Reporting, Sustainability Reporting, Materiality, Securities Regulation, CSR, Sustainability, Corporate Responsibility Reporting

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Blockchain, Law, and Business Supply Chains: The Need for Governance and Legal Frameworks to Achieve Sustainability

Sulkowski, A. J. (2019). Blockchain, Business Supply Chains, Sustainability, and Law: The Future of Governance, Legal Frameworks, and Lawyers? Delaware Journal of Corporate Law, 43 (2), 303-345.
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 23 Jul 2018 Last Revised: 16 Sep 2019
Adam J. Sulkowski
Babson College
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blockchain, law, supply chain, sustainability, business

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Cyber-Extortion: The Elephant in the Server Room

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 13 Jan 2007
Adam J. Sulkowski and Timothy Shea
Babson College and University of Massachusetts Dartmouth - Charlton College of Business
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cyber-extortion, cybercrime, cyber, crime, liability, duties, business, cyber-security, prevention

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Blockchain, Business Supply Chains, Sustainability, and Law: The Future of Governance, Legal Frameworks, and Lawyers?

Delaware Journal of Corporate Law (DJCL), Vol. 43, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 30 Oct 2018
Adam J. Sulkowski
Babson College
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blockchain, law, data, sustainability, governance, technology, smart contracts, legal profession, business, supply chains, legal frameworks

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Environmental Disclosure, Environmental Performance, and Firm Characteristics: An Analysis of S&P 100 Firms

Number of pages: 3 Posted: 09 Jun 2011
Adam J. Sulkowski
Babson College
Downloads 419 (97,567)
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environmental disclosure, firm performance, firm characteristics, S&P 100

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A Bridle, a Prod and a Big Stick: An Evaluation of Class Actions, Shareholder Proposals and the Ultra Vires Doctrine as Methods for Controlling Corporate Behavior

St. John's Law Review, Vol. 79, pp. 929-654, Fall 2005, Boston College Law School Research Paper No. 76
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 08 Aug 2005 Last Revised: 01 Sep 2011
Adam J. Sulkowski and Kent Greenfield
Babson College and Boston College Law School
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corporate behavior, employment practices, class action lawsuits, shareholder proposals, corporate policy, organizational behavior, ultra vires doctrine, corporate charters, corporate responsibility, state and federal statute compliance

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Cannabis at the Crossroads: A Transdisciplinary Analysis and Policy Prescription

45 Oklahoma City University Law Review, 125 (2021)
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 12 Mar 2020 Last Revised: 16 Jun 2021
Lawrence J. Trautman, Paul R Seaborn, Adam J. Sulkowski, Donald Mayer and Robert T. Luttrell
Prairie View A&M University - College of Business, McIntire School of Commerce, University of Virginia, Babson College, University of Denver and affiliation not provided to SSRN
Downloads 348 (120,804)
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business, cannabis, CBD, controlled substance, criminal justice, decriminalization, drug policy, entrepreneurship, ethics, FDA, federalism, hemp, legalization, legislation, localism, marihuana, marijuana, medical marijuana, policy, preemption, prohibition, regulation

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Consumption of Energy, CO2 Emissions and Materials Usage Efficiency Per Capita: A Cluster Analysis of Europe and Eurasia

Global Management Journal, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 55-65, 2009
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 06 Jun 2009 Last Revised: 17 Feb 2014
Adam J. Sulkowski and D. Steven White
Babson College and University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth - Charlton College of Business
Downloads 272 (155,885)
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model-based cluster analysis, resource use per capita, ecological footprint

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Sustainability (or ESG) Reporting: Recent Developments and the Potential for Better, More Proactive Management Enabled by Blockchain

Number of pages: 14 Posted: 18 Nov 2021
Adam J. Sulkowski
Babson College
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Rodolfo's Casa Caribe in Cuba: Business, Ethical & Legal Challenges of Investing in a Start-Up in Havana

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 04 Sep 2016
Adam J. Sulkowski
Babson College
Downloads 241 (175,629)
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Cuba, entrepreneurship, law, ethics, business, Cuban, start-up, investing, embargo, sustainability, real estate,

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Oil Users, Air Polluters, and Forest Abusers: Macro-Level Segmentation of 121 Countries Based on Resource Usage Efficiency Per Capita

Eastern Academy of Management International Conference 2009
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 05 Apr 2009
Adam J. Sulkowski and D. Steven White
Babson College and University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth - Charlton College of Business
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green business, green marketing, resource use, model-based cluster analysis, green business segmentation

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Blockchains, Corporate Governance, and the Lawyer's Role

Wayne Law Review, Vol. 65, 2019, University of Tennessee Legal Studies Research Paper No. 388
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 30 Oct 2019 Last Revised: 23 Jan 2020
Joan MacLeod Heminway and Adam J. Sulkowski
University of Tennessee College of Law and Babson College
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blockchains, corporate governance, lawyering

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Emitting Happiness? Using Model-Based Cluster Analysis to Group Countries by Wealth, Development, Carbon Emissions, and Happiness

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 01 Apr 2014 Last Revised: 14 Apr 2014
Adam J. Sulkowski and D. Steven White
Babson College and University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth - Charlton College of Business
Downloads 173 (237,378)
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sustainability, happiness, indicators, HDI, GNI, cluster analysis, sustainable development, model-based

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The Clean Water Act and Estuarian Habitat Restoration

Number of pages: 11 Posted: 22 Aug 2009
Richard F. Golen and Adam J. Sulkowski
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth - Charlton College of Business and Babson College
Downloads 167 (244,526)

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Environmental Law Compliance, TMDL Process, Nitrogen Pollution, Filtration, Oysters, Wetland Restoration, Nutrient Trading

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COVID-19: What's Next? Future of Work, Business, and Law: Automation, Transparency, Blockchain, Education, and Inspiration

Number of pages: 5 Posted: 21 Apr 2020
Adam J. Sulkowski
Babson College
Downloads 164 (248,327)

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coronavirus, COVID-19, work, business, law, blockchain, automation, DAO, tranparency, disclosure, education, entrepreneurship, small business

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Using Proactive Legal Strategies for Corporate Environmental Sustainability

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 06 Jun 2016
Gerlinde Berger-Walliser, Paul Shrivastava and Adam J. Sulkowski
University of Connecticut - School of Business, Concordia University, Quebec - John Molson School of Business and Babson College
Downloads 142 (279,131)
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Proactive Law, legal strategy, law, law as strategy, sustainable business, sustainability, corporate responsibility, corporate social responsibility, CSR, stakeholders, stakeholder engagement, strategy

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What Aspects of CSR Really Matter: An Exploratory Study Using Workplace Mortality Data

Number of pages: 5 Posted: 12 Oct 2011
Adam J. Sulkowski, Jonathan P. Barboza, Jacob Vaillancourt and Aneta Studnicka
Babson College, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and Warsaw University of Life Sciences
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Emoluments and Implications from Conflict of Interest Laws and Private Sector Fiduciary Duty

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 19 Jul 2017
Donald O. Mayer and Adam J. Sulkowski
University of Denver - Department of Business Ethics and Legal Studies and Babson College
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Constitution, U.S. Constitution, Emoluments, Conflict of Interest, Fiduciary Duty, Donald Trump, Trump, Ethics

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Systems Theory, Surveillance Capitalism, and Law: Native Wisdom and Feedback Loops to Boost the Constructive Use of Big Data

Downloads 95 (373,091)

Systems Theory, Surveillance Capitalism, and Law: Native Wisdom and Feedback Loops to Boost the Constructive Use of Big Data

Colorado Technology Law Journal
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 18 Nov 2021
Adam J. Sulkowski
Babson College
Downloads 62 (481,620)

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systems, feedback, feedback loops, law, surveillance capitalism, big data, Native, business, blockchain

Systems Theory, Surveillance Capitalism, and Law: Native Wisdom and Feedback Loops To Boost the Constructive Use of Big Data

COLO. TECH. L. J., VOL. 20 (2020)
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 23 Apr 2021
Adam J. Sulkowski, Danielle Blanch-Hartigan, Caren Beth Goldberg, Amy Klemm Verbos, Maoliang Bu and Remy Michael Balarezo Nuñez
Babson College, Bentley University, Bowie State University, University of Wisconsin - Whitewater - Finance and Business Law, Nanjing University - School of Business and Universidad de Piura
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Systems, Feedback, Feedback Loops, Law, Surveillance Capitalism, Big Data, Native, Business

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Sustainability & Tax Policy: Fixing a Patchwork of Policies with a Coherent Federal Framework

Virginia Environmental Law Journal, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 08 Sep 2016
Adam J. Sulkowski, Mystica Alexander and William Wiggins
Babson College, Independent and Independent
Downloads 79 (414,054)
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sustainability, tax, law, policy, environment, green, green taxes, Pigou, Pigovian taxes, Pigovian, Pigouvian, Pigouvian taxes

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Law, Management, and Strategy: Collapsing Boundaries and Managing the Interstices

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 23 Aug 2017
Adam J. Sulkowski, Constance E Bagley, J.S. Nelson, Inara Scott, Paul Shrivastava and Sandra Waddock
Babson College, Copenhagen Business School, Harvard Business School, Oregon State University, College of Business, Concordia University, Quebec - John Molson School of Business and Boston College - Carroll School of Management
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law, management, strategy, interstices

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Indigenous Shared Governance, International Law, and Preserving Rainforest in a Pandemic

Number of pages: 56 Posted: 01 Sep 2020
Adam J. Sulkowski
Babson College
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Amazon, Indigenous Rights, International Law, COVID-19, Pandemic, Forestry, Mining, Shared Governance

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City Sustainability Reporting: An Emerging and Desirable Legal Necessity

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 05 Jun 2016 Last Revised: 07 Jun 2016
Adam J. Sulkowski
Babson College
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Sustainability reporting, sustainability, cities, urban centers, securities laws, disclosure, municipal bonds, municipal securities, sustainable development, disclosure, soft law, materiality

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Midas, Cassandra & the Buddha: Curing Delusional Growth Myopia by Focusing on Thriving

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 23 Dec 2014
Adam J. Sulkowski and Sandra Waddock
Babson College and Boston College - Carroll School of Management
Downloads 40 (566,729)
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metrics, key performance indicators, thriving, GDP, indicators, sustainability

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Sid Wainer & Son: A Growing Realization

Academy of Legal Studies in Business, 2011 National Proceedings
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 14 Apr 2014 Last Revised: 03 Apr 2020
Adam J. Sulkowski and Nicholas D. Vardaro
Babson College and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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sustainable business, sustainability, brownfields, agriculture, redevelopment, case study

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Investor-State Dispute Settlement in NAFTA, TPP, and T-TIP: Back to the Future?

Posted: 12 May 2015
Adam J. Sulkowski
Babson College

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NAFTA, TPP, T-TIP, ISDS, Investor-State Dispute Settlement, Trade, Environment, arbitration

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The Basis for Estuarine Habitat Restoration and Nutrient Trading Schemes in the Clean Water Act

The IUP Journal of Environmental Sciences, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 41-50, February 2010
Posted: 22 Feb 2010
Richard F. Golen and Adam J. Sulkowski
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth - Charlton College of Business and Babson College

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Environmental law compliance, Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) process, Nitrogen pollution, Filtration, Oysters, Wetland restoration, Nutrient trading