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Magali (Maggie) Delmas

Professor of Management; Director, Leadership in Sustainability Certificate Program

Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, Anderson School of Management

UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability
La Kretz Hall, Suite 300
Los Angeles, CA 90095

(310) 825-9310

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Magali Delmas is a Professor of Management at the UCLA Institute of the Environment and the Anderson School of Management.

She is the director of the UCLA Center for Corporate Environmental Performance and the Center for Impact@Anderson. She was the President of the Alliance for Research in Corporate Sustainability (ARCS) from 2014 to 2017, an organization that serves as a vehicle for advancing rigorous academic research on corporate sustainability issues.

Her research interests are primarily in the areas of Business Strategy and Corporate Sustainability. Magali Delmas has written over 100 articles, book chapters, and case studies on business and the natural environment. She received the Academy of Management/Organization and the Natural Environment Distinguished Scholar Award.

She works on developing effective information strategies to promote conservation behavior and the development of green markets. Here is a short video of her recent work on green consumers, and a link to her recent book: The Green Bundle: Pairing the Market with the Planet published at Stanford Press.

Her current research includes the investigation of the barriers and incentives to the adoption of energy-efficient solutions.

She is also refining current methodologies to measure and communicate firms’ and products’ environmental and social performance. See https://www.anderson.ucla.edu/about/centers/impactanderson/open-for-good-transparency-index

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Sustainability Report 2025 Cover

The State of Corporate Sustainability Disclosure 2025

This third annual report on the State of Corporate Sustainability Disclosure provides a comprehensive analysis of how S&P 500 companies are disclosing climate-related information based on 20 core metrics tracked by UCLA’s Open for Good Initiative.

Corporate Sustainability Transparency Index

The key to sustainability progress is understanding where we are and where we want to go. Using publicly disclosed information from the S&P 500, the Open For Good™ initiative has collected sustainability…

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2023 Open for Good Transparency Index

The mission of the Open for Good‘s initiative is to provide transparent, unbiased, and accessible insights into corporate sustainability. In the last decade, we have seen an encouraging shift by…

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Corporate Sustainability Disclosure

Firms have an outsized role in shaping the environmental and social trajectories of our global society. As investors, policy-makers, and the general public increasingly demand transparency to evaluate firms’ impacts,…

health, sustainability & the built environment

Health, Sustainability & the Built Environment

Healthy Buildings and Healthy Homes: Could Indoor Spaces Be Making You Sick? Watch the video of this great conversation moderated by Professor Maggie Delmas, and organized in collaboration with Impact@Anderson…

the circular economy: reduce, reuse and recycle

The Circular Economy: Reduce, Reuse and Recycle

The circular economy has come to the foreground as a promising means through which to achieve sustainable development. Despite the wealth of literature and action plans centered around the circular…

planet innovation podcast

Planet Innovation Podcast

Planet Innovation is a podcast about business solutions to solve environmental problems. We bring uplifting conversations with scientists and entrepreneurs who are creating innovative solutions for the planet. This is…

air quality mobile application

Air quality mobile application

Our team at the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability and UCLA Health invites you to join our Air Quality Research study.  AirForU enables you to gain a better…

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Recent Publications

Are Residential Energy Efficiency Upgrades Effective? An Empirical Analysis in Southern California

Yating Chuang, Magali A. Delmas, Stephanie Pincetl

Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 2022.

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The Private and Social Consequences of Purchasing an Electric Vehicle and Solar Panels: Evidence from California

M. Delmas, M. Kahn, S. Locke

Research in Economics, 2017.

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Dinámica de los resultados medioambientales y financieros: El caso de las emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero

M. Delmas, N. Nairn-Birch, J. Lim

Economía industrial, 2017.

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Field Experiments in Corporate Sustainability Research Testing Strategies for Behavior Change in Markets and Organizations

M. Delmas, J. Aragon-Correa

Organization and Environment, 2016.

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Does Organic Wine Taste Better? An Analysis of Experts’ Ratings

M. Delmas, O. Gergaud, J. Lim

Journal of Wine Economics, 2016.

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Corporate environmental performance and lobbying

M. Delmas, J. Lim, N. Nairn-Birch

Academy of Management Discoveries, 2016.

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Corporate Sustainable Innovation and Employee Behavior

M. Delmas, S. Pekovic

Journal of Business Ethics, 2016.

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Nonprice incentives and energy conservation

Asensio, O. I., Delmas, M. A.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2015.

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