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• Conferences
• Courses, education & awareness promotion
• Training managers & employees

Websites:

Asian Institute of Management

Beyond Grey Pinstripes: Preparing MBAs for Social and Environmental Stewardship (World Resources Institute & Aspen Institute Initiative for Social Innovation through Business)

CasePlace.org: The Interactive Resource for Business Schools - CasePlace.org allows you to search for cases and teaching materials to bring social impact management into business education (The Aspen Institute Initiative for Social Innovation through Business)

Course syllabus: Business Ethics (Professor Richard S. Shreve, MBA Program, Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College)

HRH The Prince of Wales's Business & the Environment Programme, developed and run by the University of Cambridge Programme for Industry

'Just Business' (information & activities about global & ethical issues for students and teachers of Business Studies and Economics)

New Academy of Business

Warwick Business School: Corporate Citizenship Unit

Other materials:

2002:

The Secretary General [U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan] - Address at Event Marking the 50th Anniversary of the MIT Sloan School Of Management -...there is growing recognition that we must move beyond the politics of confrontation, and that solutions to poverty, environmental degradation and other challenges can only be found if the private sector is involved (U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan, 11 Oct. 2002)

World Bank Institute and University of Michigan Business School E-Conference Program on "Business, Democracy and Peace" - October 7 - November 1, 2002 -...This e-conference introduces the argument that businesses may have significant contributions to sustainable peace. (World Bank and University of Michigan Business School, 7 Oct.-1 Nov. 2002)

Lydenberg article charts future of socially responsible investing - Domini Principal and KLD Founder Says SRI’s “Time Has Come” -...Steven D. Lydenberg...has published an article entitled, “Envisioning Socially Responsible Investing: A Model for 2006,” in the October issue of The Journal of Corporate Citizenship. The groundbreaking article identifies the trends that are shaping socially responsible investing (SRI) and argues that new organizations and initiatives must be created to satisfy a growing demand for SRI research, products and education. The article’s proposals include the creation of new, niche-market SRI research firms and the integration of SRI and corporate social responsibility (CSR) into business school curricula and financial analyst training. (Domini Social Investments, 1 Oct. 2002)

• Summary of “Envisioning Socially Responsible Investing: A Model for 2006”

• full article: “Envisioning Socially Responsible Investing: A Model for 2006” (Steven D. Lydenberg, Domini Social Investments, in Journal of Corporate Citizenship, autumn 2002)

New MBA Program Stresses Sustainability, Social Justice - The Bainbridge Island Graduate Institute (BGI) is offering a new MBA program "for people who want their business career to reflect their commitment to sustainability and social justice." [Washington State, USA] (The Green Business Letter, 15 July 2002)

• Masters of Business Administration in Sustainable Business Practice Cohort Program (Bainbridge Island Graduate Institute)

The Progress and Stagnation of Corporate Social Responsibility in MBA Programs: Two recent developments paint different pictures of the current status of corporate social responsibility in MBA programs. (William Baue, SocialFunds.com, 2 May 2002)

Business education: How to make an idealist think again - Aspen survey: Most business school programmes tend to transform concerned consumers into corporate consultants...what is abundantly clear is that students' sense of social responsibility decreases as they go through their MBA programme (Della Bradshaw, Financial Times, 8 Apr. 2002)

• Student Attitudes Survey: Are Business Schools Influencing Students to Consider How Business Affects Society? (Aspen Institute - Initiative for Social Innovation through Business, 29 Jan. 2002)

• Aspen Institute's Initiative for Social Innovation Through Business - Results of the First Ever Longitudinal Survey Of MBA Student Attitudes on the Relationship of Business to Society (Aspen Institute's Initiative for Social Innovation Through Business, PR Newswire, 28 Jan. 2002)

Nike attempts to distance itself from child-labor history [at] annual event organized by UW [University of Washington] Net Impact — a group of MBA students trying to raise awareness about the advantages of socially and environmentally responsible business (Kevin Jones, University of Washington Daily, 3 Apr. 2002)

Survey - Business education: Human approach moves up agenda - Although awareness of CSR [corporate social responsibility] is on the increase, some academics feel not enough is happening in corporate training organisations [refers to Unipart and BP as 2 companies that do include serious discussion of corporate social responsibility in their in-house training] (Sarah Murray, Financial Times, 25 Mar. 2002)

Time to consider environmental ethics [remarks by Richard Evanoff, an associate professor of environmental ethics in the department of international politics, economics, and business at Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan] (Takeshi Suzuki, special to The Daily Yomiuri [Japan], 22 Mar. 2002) 

Business education: Now is the time to clarify true meaning - The interpretation of CSR [corporate social responsibility] varies from one business college to another and from country to country...While growing numbers of business school brochures broadcast prowess in teaching responsible business, definitions of what that means remain hazy, and the integration of social and environmental management into core elements of the MBA programme varies widely from school to school. (Sarah Murray, Financial Times, 21 Jan. 2002)

2001:

Crisis of conscience: Corporations are finding social responsibility boosts the planet and the bottom line - For many years, CSR was an elective rather than part of the core curriculum at business schools. Within corporations, it was often merely a synonym for philanthropy...But that is changing in response to growing protests against globalization, and rising awareness of environmental threats and social and economic disparities around the world. (Peter Sinton, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Nov. 2001)

Oxford Business School funded by arms broker (Pippa Gallop, Corporate Watch [UK], 9 Nov. 2001)

Socially Responsible MBAs? A new study finds exceedingly few, despite more calls from students for such training. Among the leaders: Harvard -...[F]ew B-schools teach the basics in socially responsible business to their MBAs, according to Beyond Grey Pinstripes, a study released on Oct. 31. The Aspen Institute's Initiative for Social Innovation through Business and the World Resources Institute (WRI), both nonprofits, run the study to assess B-schools' ability to impart green-friendly management lessons to future execs. (Mica Schneider, Business Week, 31 Oct. 2001)

• New survey reveals increasing number of MBA programs recognize relevance of social and environmental stewardship: Results of Beyond Grey Pinstripes 2001, a survey of graduate business schools in the United States, Asia, Europe, and the Americas, reveal a growing dedication to including social and environmental issues in MBA programs. Although 82 MBA programs worldwide report including social and environmental topics, the survey also finds that far greater integration of these issues into required MBA curricula is urgently needed to meet the business challenges of a global marketplace. (World Resources Institute & Aspen Institute Initiative for Social Innovation through Business, 31 Oct. 2001)

• Five business school faculty receive national recognition for excellence in management education: Five business school professors today received the Beyond Grey Pinstripes 2001 Business School Faculty Pioneer Awards for their leadership in developing programs and research that integrate social and environmental issues into business schools. (World Resources Institute & Aspen Institute Initiative for Social Innovation through Business, 31 Oct. 2001)

• website/report: Beyond Grey Pinstripes: Preparing MBAs for Social and Environmental Stewardship (World Resources Institute & Aspen Institute Initiative for Social Innovation through Business)

• Introduction
• Beyond rankings: A vision for MBA education - Corporate perspectives on the stewardship challenge and its implications for graduate business education.
• Recommendations for MBA programs
• Management for sustainability: How some schools are making sustainability a focal point in graduate business education.
• Leading MBA Programs: Top schools incorporating environmental and social impact management.
• Social impact management
• Environmental management
• International MBA Programs: Highlights of innovative programs and centers around the world.
• A view from the inside: A look at how well students and faculty survey respondents think business schools are incorporating environmental and social impact management

Sustainability and Profitability: Conflict or Convergence? Report on the Inaugural U.S. Senior Executives' Seminar, 29th October to 2nd November 2001 [includes summary of presentation on "Global Business and Human Rights" by Michael Posner, Executive Director of Lawyers Committee for Human Rights] (HRH The Prince of Wales's Business & the Environment Programme, developed and run by the University of Cambridge Programme for Industry, 29 Oct.-2 Nov. 2001)

Sustainability and Profitability: Conflict or Convergence? Report on the 5th European Senior Executives' Seminar, 17th to 21st September 2001 [includes summary of presentation on "Health and Poverty: The social challenge of sustainable development" by Sophia Tickell, Senior Policy Advisor, Oxfam] (HRH The Prince of Wales's Business & the Environment Programme, developed and run by the University of Cambridge Programme for Industry, 17-21 Sep. 2001)

Sustainability and Profitability: Conflict or Convergence? Report on the 8th UK Senior Executives' Seminar, 2nd to 6th April 2001 [includes summary of presentation on "Global Business, Human Rights and Governance" by Sir Geoffrey Chandler, Chair of Amnesty International UK Business Group] (HRH The Prince of Wales's Business & the Environment Programme, developed and run by the University of Cambridge Programme for Industry, 2-6 Apr. 2001)

2000:

Comments about business school education by Anita Roddick, Founder and Co-Chairman, The Body Shop International (in Anita Roddick, Business as Unusual, 2000)

1999:

Human rights teaching in business schools (Chris Marsden, Warwick Business School Corporate Citizenship Unit, in Human Rights & Business Matters, newsletter of Amnesty International UK Business Group, spring 1999)