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September 29, 2004

Dr. Sandra Waddock awarded Sumner Marcus Award from Social Issues in Management Division of Academy of Management

Center Senior Research Fellow and Advisory Board member honored

CHESTNUT HILL -- The Academy of Management’s prestigious Sumner Marcus Award for Outstanding Service was recently presented to Sandra Waddock, D.B.A., professor of Management at the Wallace E. Carroll School of Management at Boston College and a member of the advisory board and senior research fellow for the Center for Corporate Citizenship.

This annual award, presented by The Academy’s Social Issues in Management Division, recognizes an individual who has made substantial and significant contributions to the Division and to the field of Social Issues in Management/Business and Society.

Dr. Waddock, author of several books, has recently co-edited with Malcolm McIntosh and Georg Kell the new book Learning to Talk: Corporate Citizenship and the Development of the UN Global Compact, (2004, Greenleaf). This important book, with a foreword by Kofi Annan, UN Secretary General, examines the global dimensions of corporate citizenship as influenced by the UN Global Compact. She is also the editor of the Journal of Corporate Citizenship and founding faculty member of the Boston College Leadership for Change Program.

About The Center for Corporate Citizenship at Boston College:
The Center is a membership-based research organization and is committed to helping business leverage its social, economic and human assets to ensure both its success and a more just and sustainable world. As a leading resource on corporate citizenship, The Center works with global corporations to help them define, plan and operationalize their corporate citizenship. Through the power of research, executive education and the insights of its 350 corporate members, The Center creates knowledge, value and demand for corporate citizenship. For more information visit The Center’s web site http://www.bc.edu/corporatecitizenship.