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Steve Rochlin is Head of AccountAbility North America. He spent the previous 11 years as Director of Research and Development for The Center for Corporate Citizenship at Boston College, where he led the effort to build one of the premier applied R&D Centers on the strategy, management, measurement, and practice of corporate responsibility.
These efforts include the Global Leadership Network, a landmark partnership with The Center at Boston College, AccountAbility, IBM and nine other leading global companies. This initiative has defined performance excellence in corporate responsibility and built a companion strategic planning and assessment tools.
Rochlin has been co-principal investigator of several research initiatives supported by Foundations such as Ford, Rockefeller Brothers, and The Hitachi Foundation. These include an initiative on the governance and accountability of large scale multi-sector partnerships; a project to interview CEOs and senior executive team members on the leadership role of business in society; a study building a strategic framework and approach for companies to use business development strategies in lower-income communities as a tool for poverty alleviation and for new revenue generating opportunities; and a multi-company study building a framework to drive organizational change that integrates corporate responsibility.
Prior to arriving at Boston College, Rochlin worked extensively in the areas of technology-based economic development for both the National Academy of Sciences and the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C. He has also served as Associate for an economics and management consulting firm.
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