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Web Conference on Corporate Environmental Responsibility Highly Successful
On Tuesday July 28, Aspen CBE and Walden University held a joint web conference on the topic of "Environmental Responsibility and the Major Multinational Corporation." Hosted by Walden University School of Management Associate Dean Dr. Wanda Gravett, the web conference featured presentations from Irene Henriques, Associate Professor of Economics at the Schulich School of Business at York University, and Bruce Schlein, Vice President of Corporate Sustainability at Citi. Turnout for the event was very high, and participants offered many thought-provoking questions. To download a PDF of the two speakers' presentations, please click here. We look forward to many such stimulating conversations to come! See announcement below for more upcoming web conferences! |
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Business & Human Rights Resource Centre Launches New Online Information Hub
Today the non-profit Business & Human Rights Resource Centre launched the world's only online portal for all materials relating to the work of the United Nations Secretary-General's Special Representative on business & human rights, Professor John Ruggie. This free portal includes all the Special Representative's reports, papers and speeches; material on his consultations with stakeholders; and diverse commentaries about his work. For more information, please visit the portal. |
| oikos and Ashoka Announce Annual
Case Writing Competition
oikos and Ashoka have issued a call for cases, joining forces to promote the creation of high quality teaching cases on Corporate Sustainability (sponsored by oikos foundation) and Social Entrepreneurship (sponsored by Ashoka). The competition welcomes entries from all parts of the world. Submitted case studies should be suitable for use in management education and should be related to managerial issues faced by organizations and individuals. For more information, please visit the competition web site. |
| Babson College Issues Call for Papers for GAOC Conference
Babson College has issued a call for papers for its upcoming Global Accounting and Organizational Change Conference.
The theme of this year's conference is "accounting's role in promoting social change." Empirical and review papers are sought from a variety
of theoretical and methodological perspectives.
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| 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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Aspen CBE Welcomes Laurie Saft Ginsberg
We are pleased to announce that Laurie Saft Ginsberg joined the Aspen CBE team in early July. Laurie will manage our Faculty Networks program, which convenes academics and business leaders around topics in sustainability. She will soon be issuing a Request for Proposals for new Faculty Network topics. Laurie has spent the bulk of her career in marketing and business development roles in the financial services industry, at AllianceBernstein, Credit Suisse and Evercore Partners, and recently helped to launch the U.S. office of a London-based CSR consultancy. She has an MBA in Finance and Marketing from NYU's Stern School of Business and a BA in History and Hebrew from the University of Wisconsin - Madison. Laurie is hard at work with the Teaching Innovation Program in India (TIP-India), a network of academics and business leaders committed to improving teaching and research on social and environmental issues in Indian business education. The next TIP-India meeting is planned for December 2009. For more information on TIP-India or other planned Faculty Networks, contact Laurie. |
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| Join us for Two Upcoming Web Conferences!
"Sustainability Trends in MBA Education," Featuring Nancy McGaw, Deputy Director of The Aspen Institute Business and Society Program, and Rich Leimsider, Director of the Aspen Institute Center for Business Education. The conference is free of charge and will be held on August 25 at 12 noon Eastern time. To RSVP, please contact Chad Ayotte "The Stakeholder Approach in the Marketing Discipline," featuring Daniel Korschun, Assistant Professor of Marketing at the LeBow College of Business at Drexel University, and Madhu Viswanathan, Associate Professor of Business Administration at the College of Business at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. The conference is free of charge, and will be held on September 3 at 1 pm Eastern time. To RSVP, please contact Chad Ayotte |
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Aspen CBE Cocktail Party at AOM
Attending this year's Academy of Management conference in Chicago? Join Aspen CBE for a cocktail party from 6:00 - 8:00 PM on August 9! To RSVP, please contact Chad Ayotte |
| Portland State University Issues Call for Papers for Business and Sustainability Conference
Portland State University has issued a call for papers for its upcoming International Conference on Business and Sustainability.
The theme of this year's conference is "regenerate". In the midst of a difficult economic time sustainability provides both an ethos and an operating principle for deriving new methods to revitalize our organizations and societies.
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