Sol Hart
· Professor, Communication and Media | Program in the Environment (PitE)University of Michigan · Environmental Science and Policy
Active 1901–2025
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About
Sol Hart is a Professor in both the Program in the Environment and the Department of Communication and Media at the University of Michigan. His specialization is in risk communication related to environmental, science, and risk issues. His research investigates the psychological processes underlying effective risk communication, including understanding the role of the media in motivating and engaging the public around various issues. He focuses on creating effective messages that can cross ideological divides and resonate with broad sections of the public. His work is supported by organizations such as the National Science Foundation, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Professor Hart has published his research in numerous peer-reviewed journals, including the Journal of Communication, Communication Research, Science Communication, and Public Understanding of Science, among others.
Research topics
- Political Science
- Engineering
- Law
- Computer Science
- Computer Security
- Public relations
- Economics
- Medicine
- Environmental ethics
- Environmental science
Selected publications
2019-03-04 · 14 citations
book1st authorCorresponding2017-09-08 · 7 citations
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingBottom of the pyramid (BoP) 2.0 has been advanced as a way to overcome many of the problems of simply "selling to the poor". The BoP Global Network has been dedicated to building the theory and accelerating the practice of BoP business—enterprise that is inclusive, culturally embedded, environmentally sustainable and profitable. BoP 2.0 stressed the importance of creating protected organizational "white space" in companies to give new BoP initiatives the time and space for cr…
2017-09-29 · 6 citations
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingIt has been over a decade since the publication of "The fortune at the bottom of the pyramid" which launched the "BoP" business movement (Prahalad and Hart, 2002). Over the past decade, there have been fits and starts: many BoP ventures have flat-lined or failed; some have been converted to philanthropic programs; but only a few have taken root and gathered significant commercial momentum. Fortunately, much has been learned over the past ten years suggesting that we are on the verge of taking th…
Creating an innovation ecosystem for inclusive and sustainable business
2017-09-08 · 5 citations
book-chapterSenior authorOver the past decade, most base-of-the-pyramid (BoP) ventures have either failed outright or dramatically under-performed against expectations. There are many and varied reasons for this less-than-stellar track record. Perhaps no cause for BoP failure, however, has been more ubiquitous than the mistaken belief that BoP ventures are no different from new ventures aimed at the developed markets at the top of the pyramid—the assumption that all that is required for venture success is an affordable…
2019-03-13 · 3 citations
book1st authorCorrespondingSince the signing of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) on January 1, 1970, eighteen states have initiated their own programs of compre-hensive environmental review. These State Environ-mental Policy Acts (SEPA's), or "NEPA equivalents," &re generally patterned after the policies, goals, and processes established by NEPA but, at the same time, demonstrate a great deal of variability in terms of extent as well as style of implementation. They are "equivalent," however, in the sense that…
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Fernando Casado Cañeque
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Daniel R. Denison
Business School Lausanne
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Gordon A. Enk
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SC Johnson (United States)
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Paul Shrivastava
ICN Business School
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Institute for Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery
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Paula C. Brady
Columbia University
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Cornell University
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