Bradley K. Googins, Executive Director Emeritus of Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship

Bradley K. Googins is executive director emeritus of the Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship, a membership-based research center that serves as a leading voice in the U.S. on the role of business in society. He took over leadership of the Center in 1997 and served in that capacity until 2009. He is also a Professor in Organizational Studies at the Boston College’s Carroll School of Management. In 1990 Dr. Googins founded the Center for Work & Family at Boston University and directed it for six years before moving the center to Boston College. He was selected as a National Kellogg Leadership Fellow from 1989- 1992. He has authored dozens of books, monographs, and articles on corporate issues, most recently Beyond Good Company: Next Generation Corporate Citizenship, published by Palgrave in December 2007. He has served as principal investigator for many research grants on corporate citizenship, including The Role of Corporations in Community and Economic Development, (Ford Foundation) and The State of Corporate Citizenship: A Global Survey, (Hitachi Foundation). He sits on the review board of the Journal of Corporate Citizenship and the advisory boards of Corporate Voices for Working Families, the Brazilian research and education center Uni-Ethos. Vincular at the Pontifical University in Valparaiso Chile, and the Center for Corporate Citizenship in Berlin Germany. He will be a visiting fellow at the Asian Institute of management in 2010. He lectures widely on issues of corporate citizenship and the role of business in society across the globe. He is currently conducting research in the areas of responsible leadership, employee engagement and social innovation and entrepreneurship Dr. Googins holds a Ph.D. in Social Policy from The Heller Graduate School at Brandeis University; a M.S.W. from Boston College and a B.A. in philosophy and sociology from Boston College.