Vol. I No. 4 FEBRUARY, 2008

Spotlight On...


Green Supply Chains
Environmental issues add increasing complexities to the supplier-buyer relationship, as the drive to limit emissions and reduce packaging places increasing pressures on managers already faced with the demands that price, timing and public relations demands issues create. Future business leaders require a thorough understanding of these new "green" issues. These links shed light on how businesses and business schools are preparing current and future leaders to integrate "green" considerations into supply chain management.	LINKS: A Closer Look at Business Education: Supply Chain Management How Green Is My Value Chain? GreenBiz.com: Hot Topics - Supply Chains Green Is Good For Business Green Is Going Mainstream

Updates

Call for Nominations for the annual Faculty Pioneer and Dissertation Proposal Awards

The Center for Business Education is pleased to once again call for nominations for the annual Faculty Pioneer Awards, referred to as the "Oscars of the business school world" by the Financial Times, and the Dissertation Proposal Award

Faculty Pioneer Awards celebrate educators who have demonstrated leadership and risk-taking in integrating social and environmental issues into academic research, educational programs and business practice. Nominations are open to all faculty members at any institution worldwide offering a graduate management degree.

The Dissertation Proposal Award encourages and recognizes Ph.D. students showing interest in issues of environmental, ethical, and social importance, and aims to nurture relationships with the next generation of faculty interested in these issues.

Call for Cases, Papers, and Submissions

Are YOUR materials up on CasePlace.org and the SEIN Network at SSRN? CasePlace.org is the Center for Business Education's highly trafficked on-line resource for case studies, syllabi and innovative teaching materials on business and sustainability. SEIN is home for all working papers that relate to social and environmental issues in business.

If you have any papers or cases you'd like to submit to CasePlace.org, please send them to Alex.Roberts@aspeninstitute.org. Visit CBE's SEIN page to learn more about the network and how to download and submit your own white papers.

Publications Library
	Explore the Center's entire Publications Library, including journal articles written by Aspen Institute staff, speeches, audio recordings, and a variety of thought leadership pieces...

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.

Case In Point

Global Warming, Local Thawing: How Sustainability is Melting Academic Boundaries

By Jon Johnson, Professor in the Sam M.Walton College of Business, University of Arkansas

What is true within universities also generalizes across universities. It is going to take all of the organizational forms that surround us--from corporations to governments to NGOs--to tackle global warming and the host of other environmental and social issues that have recently been packaged as "sustainability". We will need more diversity and more cooperation in the ecosystem of institutions, including universities...read more >

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From CasePlace.org's Case Collection

From the Center's Social and Environmental Impact Network at SSRN

The Top 10 Downloads in the Social and Environmental Impact Network (SEIN)

From CasePlace.org's Teaching Modules

Our Beyond Grey Pinstripes Reports

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