Aspen Institute Center for Business Education Newsletter, April 2010

Vol. III No. 4 April 2010


Featured Topic
Aspen CBE Re-Launches CasePlace.org We are pleased to announce the redesign and relaunch of CasePlace.org, our free online library of teaching resources for business faculty. We have given the site a more attractive design and layout, and have redesigned its key features to make them easier to use. Click here to read more.	CasePlace.org Featured User Pages Partner Pages Teaching Modules

View Special Resources from CasePlace.org Partners

A new CasePlace.org feature allows university partners to create a customized "channel" to showcase their most innovative teaching materials. These channels allow schools to highlight leading edge work in the arena of social, environmental, and sustainability issues within business education. We are very excited to have this opportunity to share these teaching resources and hope you find this new feature useful. Browse our Partner Pages to learn more about our partner schools' research, upcoming events, and programs.

Aspen CBE's Recent Releases

Aspen CBE Announcements

Proceedings from Employee Ownership Symposium Now Available

One year ago, Aspen participated in the inaugural Beyster Fellowship Symposium, sponsored by The Foundation for Enterprise Development. The Symposium served as an opportunity for researchers from numerous institutions to present on and discuss inter-disciplinary studies addressing broad-based employee ownership. The proceedings for the symposium, titled Shared Capitalism and Employee Ownership: The Scholarly Agenda, are now available on the Foundation's Web site and we encourage you to take a look--it's a good source of background on the history and current research trends on employee ownership as a field of study.

Aspen Co-Sponsors Conscious Capitalism Conference

The 2nd International Research Conference on Conscious Capitalism will be held at Bentley University on May 24-25, 2010. The theme this year is "Conscious Capitalism: Issues, Insights and Implementation." Conscious Capitalism is a movement that unites business practitioners, prominent thought leaders, and leading academics around the idea that businesses can and should exist for a deeper purpose, and be managed for the benefit of multiple stakeholders. Click here to learn more.

Aspen Co-Sponsors "MBA Under Siege" Conference

Even before the financial crisis, management education and specifically MBA education has been in the line of fire. If the critics are right, it is time to reevaluate MBA education more seriously. Aspen CBE is co-sponsoring a conference on this topic to be held at the Fordham Graduate School of Business on May 11. Please join us! Click here to learn more.

Other Announcements

UC Berkeley Corporate Responsibility Exec Ed Program

This two-day leadership program is designed to strengthen senior executives' efforts to integrate corporate responsibility into their business strategy. Join business leaders and Haas School of Business faculty in hands-on, highly interactive sessions that include corporate responsibility in a shifting world, measuring impact, communicating on corporate responsibility, and forecasting the future of CSR. Click here for more.

CWRU Announces Non-Profit Management Position

The Mandel Center for Non-Profit Organizations at Case Western Reserve University seeks a prominent academic leader to serve as Mandel Professor of Nonprofit Management and executive director of the Mandel Center. Click here to download the position announcement.

Featured User Pages Spotlight Teaching Strategies

CasePlace.org's new "Featured User" pages spotlight some of the CasePlace.org materials respected business faculty use in class, and how they use them. Three Featured Users are currently showcased--Minette Drumwright, Timothy Fort, and Stuart Hart--and we will continue to add more to the site to give faculty CasePlace.org users a view into how their peers teach on sustainability. Click here to browse our Featured User pages.

Original Teaching Modules Facilitate Class Discussion

Check out CasePlace.org's original teaching modules--sets of cases, references, and other materials that are organized around Social Impact Management-related topics and are designed to facilitate classroom teaching. Highlighting the major questions around a topic, and incorporating multiple points of view, they can be inserted into existing syllabi or used to plan new teaching. Click here to view our menu of teaching modules.

C.K. Prahalad 1941-2010

It is with great sadness that Aspen CBE notes the passing of pioneering management scholar and 2005 Aspen Lifetime Achievement Award winner C.K. Prahalad. Please click here for BusinessWeek's account of Dr. Prahalad's life and work.

CasePlace.org Partner Announcements

Collaboration for the Greater Good: Social and Environmental Responsi-
bility in the Global Supply Chain

"Collaboration" is a supply chain buzzword that people often talk about in theory but rarely implement in practice. And yet smart organizations have found big payoffs in collaborations that not only share costs and risks but also rewards. Stanford's April 29 conference, Collaboration for the Greater Good: Social and Environmental Responsibility in the Global Supply Chain, will explore how innovative collaborations between businesses, nonprofits, and governments can solve social and environmental problems while maintaining or even enhancing profits.

Check Out Our Three New Partner Pages

Allegheny College's Center for Economic & Environmental Development, Duke University's Kenan Institute for Ethics and Ohio State University's Fisher College of Business now have pages at CasePlace.org. Please have a look at these schools' great resources!

Other Announcements

Wilfrid Laurier Hosts Sustainability Workshop for Canadian Faculty

Wilfrid Laurier University announces a workshop scheduled for May 4^th, 2010 that will allow Canadian business faculty a unique opportunity to engage in meaningful dialogue about global sustainability's impacts on the work life of current business school students, and on the people and organizations they will lead. The workshop will explore best practices of leading business institutions, and the challenges and opportunities that accompany sustainability-focused business education. Registration is free. Click here for more details.

The Aspen Institute's Center for Business Education encourages future business leaders to innovate at the intersection of corporate profits and social impacts. Our goal is bold and long-term: to radically re-orient the MBA degree to embrace the principles of corporate citizenship and sustainability.

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