Katherine Valvoda Smith

Katherine Valvoda Smith is Executive Director of the Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship in the Carroll School of Management. She oversees all the center’s activities and strategic ventures, and teaches “Managing Business in Society” in the Carroll School of Management MBA program. The purpose of the center is to help corporate citizenship professionals know more, do more, and achieve more with their corporate citizenship investments by understanding the foundations of how companies create good in the world and add value to their businesses through their environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investments. The center has conducted research about the practice of corporate citizenship for more than 30 years, developing the deep knowledge and insights that help corporate citizenship professionals manage and improve performance in the ESG dimensions of their companies.