Bush Foundation Fellowships

Robert G. Strand

2009 Leadership Fellow
Minnesota

Career Field: For-profit Business
Secondary Field: Large Corporation
Fellowship Plan: To pursue a Ph.D. at the Copenhagen Business School's Center for Corporate Social Responsibility and to build bridges between Scandanavian and Minnesota businesses.
Long-Term Goal: To encourage the adoption of effective corporate responsibility and sustainability practices in Minnesota by bridging the Scandinavian and Minnesotan business communities.

Strand, a senior market planner with Boston Scientific and former Fulbright Scholar to Norway, has traveled extensively across Norway, Sweden and Denmark researching corporate responsibility. He was impressed with the approach of the Scandinavian businesses he visited, which viewed economic, environmental and social interests as mutually beneficial, not competing interests. Strand hopes to build bridges between business in Scandinavia and Minnesota so that this approach to corporate responsibility can flourish here. He will pursue a Ph.D. at the Copenhagen Business School’s Center for Corporate Social Responsibility.