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Faculty Opportunity Fund

The IBES Faculty Opportunity Fund distributes awards of up to $4,000 each year to faculty members whose research supports PRME Principle #4 and the work of business advancing any of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It is funded by the endowment funds of IBES to support research and publication costs.

 

PRME Principle #4 – Research

We will engage in conceptual and empirical research that advances our understanding about the role, dynamics, and impact of corporations in the creation of sustainable social environmental and economic value. (https://www.unprme.org/what-we-do)

 

Sustainable Development Goals

At its heart are the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which are an urgent call for action by all countries - developed and developing - in a global partnership. They recognize that ending poverty and other deprivations must go hand-in-hand with strategies that improve health and education, reduce inequality, and spur economic growth – all while tackling climate change and working to preserve our oceans and forests. (https://sdgs.un.org/goals)

 

SDG Targets and Indicators

The 17 Sustainable Development Goals are defined in a list of 169 SDG Targets. Progress towards these Targets is agreed to be tracked by 232 unique Indicators. (https://sdg-tracker.org/)

 

Application Details

Applications for 2024 are now open and must be emailed to ibes@lmu.edu by Friday, September 6th. You can view the application here: 2024-5 Application

  • Arin Brahma (SDG 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages)

    This research concerns the development and use of a home monitoring artifact-based system utilizing a wearable IoT device (smart watch), and mHealth smartphone app to collect patient data on activities of daily living, daily health vitals, and self-reported wellness indicators for 180 days, with the goal of improving the well-being of cancer and cardiovascular disease patients under home-care. 

    Junghoon Park (5 SDGs) 

    SDG 9: Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation

    • This research supports SDG 9 by differentiating information that is new to firms and industries in terms of possible solutions. In particular, this research supports upgrading infrastructure and retrofitting industries to increase sustainable practices. 

    SDG 10: Reduce inequality within and among countries and SDG 16: Promote and enforce non-descriminatory laws and policies for sustainable development

    • This research supports SDG 10/16 by examining the adoption LGBTQ HR practices due to outside pressures. The research corresponds to the subgoal of SDG 10 of empowering and promoting the social, economic and political inclusion of all, irrespective of age, sex, disability, race, ethnicity, origin, religion or economic or other status. It also corresponds to SDG 16, which is to promote and enforce non-descriminatory laws and policies for sustainable development.

    SDG 12: Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns

    • This SDG is present through a majority of the projects, particularly the subgoal to encourage companies, especially large and transnational companies, to adopt sustainable practices and integrate sustainability information into their reporting cycle. Additionly, one of these projects looks to achieve the sustainable management and efficient use of natural resources.

    SDG 17: Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development

    • This research proposes a way to choose partnerships with NGOs in order to advance sustainability in emerging markets. This corresponds to the subgoal of enhancing the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development, complemented by multi-stakeholder partnerships that mobilize and share knowledge, expertise, technology and financial resources, to support the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals in all countries, in particular developing countries. 

    Youyou Tai (SDG 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages)

    This research explores opioid utilization patterns and public health responses for pregnant and postpartum women on X (formerly Twitter), as well as assessing health inequities and the role of digital health interventions. 

    Jade Chen (2 SDGs)

    SDG 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls

    • This research focuses on the analysis of various factors that influence female retention and promotion. Initial results suggest the implementation of equalized family leave programs plays a substantial role in enhancing the retention of female auditors, as well as a connection between offices with a greater presence of women in leadership positions with a higher likelihood of retaining and promoting female auditors.

    SDG 13: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts

    • This is an investigation of whether air pollution within the United States is associated with misstatements in financial reporting using PM2.5 data from the Environmental Protection Agency and to determine if there is a positive association between air pollution and misstatements in annual financial reports.

     

     

  • Julian Saint Clair (SDG 10: Reduced inequality within and among countries)

    Through the exploration of best marketing practices for outreach that attracts underrepresented consumers to pursue education in STEM fields, there have been three waves of data collection completed. Results suggest that perceived belonging is the key driver of interest in pursuing educational and career pathways in stereotyped fields. The studies have attempted to test interventions that impact the degree of perceived similarity with counter-stereotypical role models in advertisements and the degree to which the educational program shares socio-cultural norms with the stereotyped group.
    Youyou Tao, Ace Vo, Kala Seal (SDG 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages, SDG 10: Reduce inequality within and among countries)
    "Is Telehealth a Silver Bullet? A Longitudinal Study of Telehealth Use in Mitigating Access Barriers for Mental Health Patients from An Intersectionality Perspective" delves into the myriad of healthcare access barriers encountered by mental health patients and investigate the role telehealth can play in tackling these issues and enhance patients’ health outcomes. This helps to advance the understanding of how telehealth functions can reduce mental health disparities and the risks of readmission and emergency admission, enabling healthcare providers to better tailor their telehealth services to meet the needs of underserved mental health patient populations.

    Alex Glosenberg (SDG 4: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all, SDG 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls, SDG 8: Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all) 

    This research is catalogues a variety of mentoring actions taken by South Korean refugee women entrepreneurs. This study ptovides the foundation for an analysis, which will be furthered by analysis of a book they published on their work.

    Trevor Zink (Various SDGs)

    This research pertains to the advances in lifecycle assessment (LCA) as related to the SDGs.

  • Ace Vo (SDG 2: End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture)

    This research focused on the development of a Food Accessibility Index used in conjunction with the Center for Disease Control’s Social Vulnerability Index, to study the demographics of Atlanta’s population and identify areas with the lowest food access, with the aim of using this data to improve food access. Two main tracts were identified by where the socially vulnerable residents were affected because they had the least access to food within a 15 minute walk or 15 minute drive time.

    Julian (Yan) Zhang (SDG 8: Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all, SDG 9: Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation)

    This research focuses on an extensive, manually collected database of sustainable innovations by Chinese agricultural entrepreneurs, such as applying traditional Chinese medicine to cattle raising, which is a low-cost and eco-friendly way to treat medical problems. These findings suggest that Chinese rural governments have an incubation role that can support the effects of green process innovation without additional social responsibility burdens.