Diane-Laure Arjaliès
Assistant Professor, J.J. Wettlaufer Faculty Fellow
Why this course
The success of an organization is widely recognized to be more, much more, than its balance sheet or share price. Professor Arjaliès’ course introduces students to multiple definitions of value, asks them to explore ways to measure financial and non-financial factors, and investigate how to transform qualitative judgments into concrete numbers.
Students learn and use tools to understand and assess complex systems of social, environmental and economic impacts that can inform concrete change within the organizations they will work in and lead.
Course Highlights
Learning outcomes:
At the end of the course, students will be able to:
Assess how firms manage their environmental, economic and social performance.
Develop methods and metrics to assess the broader impact of a product, service, project, organization or business on its stakeholders.
Identify and explain how organizations’ performance measurement systems shape business practices.
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Biography
An ethnographer, I have been an Assistant Professor (interdisciplinary appointment) at the Ivey Business School, Western University (London, Canada) since 2015. I aim to push the boundaries of knowledge and practice by investigating how the fashioning of new devices and/or collective actions can help transform markets towards sustainability. Over the past years, I have studied the emergence of responsible investing, conservation finance, impact assessment, integrated reporting, and alternative currencies. I am currently working on 1) the rise of financial technologies (e.g. crypto assets, artificial intelligence, etc.) and their impacts on society and 2) the development of Indigenous forms of business and accounting that accommodate the spiritual and cultural beliefs of Aboriginal communities.