Oana Branzei
Ivey Business School, Western University
Addressing societal challenges in sustainable communities
Oana Branzei discusses her latest field research in various sustainable communities (e.g., Albareda & Branzei, 2025) showing how prosocial, circular, local, regenerative, and restorative forms of organizing can purposefully address societal challenges.
Bio:
Oana Branzei is the Paul MacPherson Chair in Strategic Leadership and Professor of Strategy and Sustainability at the Ivey Business School at Western University in Canada. She is also the founding Director of the HBA Sustainability Certificate program and the Master of Science Graduate Diploma in Sustainability. Oana’s research interests, at the intersection of strategy and sustainability, focus on novel forms and functions of business that purposefully address environmental, social, and governance (ESG) grand challenges.