Dear Colleagues
Happy new year. Here is our first posting for 2012 from Dr. Robert Klassen, Chair, Paul
Kleindorfer Award in Sustainability.
Regards
Mile'
Paul Kleindorfer Award in Sustainability 2012
The Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) approved the Paul Kleindorfer
Award in Sustainability in its meeting held on November 18, 2011 in Boston, U.S.A. The
award is instituted to recognize young scholars who have already distinguished
themselves through the breadth and innovativeness of their scholarly work on questions
related to sustainable operations and the social and environmental impact of business.
Paul Kleindorfer?s contributions to research on Sustainability have been enormous. These
include work defining the frontiers of sustainable operations, research on supply chain risk
management and natural catastrophes, on climate change and the carbon economy, on
collaborative innovation for green technologies and on the design of systems for
managing environmental, health and safety impacts of business. POMS and its flagship
journal POM have a special interest in these important areas, with the POMS College of
Sustainability playing a leadership role in promoting research on sustainable operations.
Paul is not only a true renaissance scholar in management but also a person with an
unusual interest and generosity in supporting and encouraging younger scholars.
Award Criteria
This award is for individuals less than 10 year post-PhD, for work on sustainable
operations. The nominator/nominee should put forward the specific portfolio of work that
they think is worthy of the award (e.g. a series of papers showing sustained work and
substantial contribution to closed-loop supply chain research). Preference should be given
to members of the OM community and people who also publish in POM. It is advisable to
cast a wide net including the communities of INFORMS, DSI and other societies where
sustainability has become a major theme. The focus should be on innovation, breadth and
potential impact of the body of work in promoting advances in sustainable operations.
Although the main focus is on the candidate?s scholarly output, evidence of other
contributions to the profession (editorial work, contributions to conferences and
professional societies, etc.) will also be taken into account.
Procedure for Submissions
By February 20, 2012, please email copies of the materials listed below to the committee
chair, Robert Klassen along with a copy to Sushil Gupta, the Executive Director of POMS via
e‐mail at (
poms@fiu.edu). The committee chair will acknowledge receipt and distribute
copies to the judges. Additions to the portfolio cannot be made after the January 31
deadline. The portfolio should include:
1. A cover letter of no more than two pages applying for the award that highlights the
major contributions of the applicant?s entire body of research
2. A copy of the candidate?s resume
3. Copies of the specific portfolio of work that they think is worthy of the award.
4. A maximum of three letters of recommendation for the award from other academics
or area/department chairs describing the applicant?s contribution to research, or from
practitioners confirming the successful application of research findings.
The winner will be announced at the 23rd annual POMS Conference in Chicago, April 20-
23, 2012 and receive a plaque and $1000.
Paul Kleindorfer Award in Sustainability, Chair
Dr. Robert Klassen
University of Western Ontario, Canada
rklassen@ivey.uwo.ca