Vol. II No. 1 NOVEMBER, 2008


Featured Topic:
HIV/AIDS HIV/AIDS has long been acknowledged as an important business issue: companies around the world both large and small are being forced to confront the disease as a major challenge to productivity and profits, as well as a threat to the health and wellbeing of their workforce. This Closer Look examines teaching on HIV/AIDS in the management curriculum, looking at teaching and resources that address the effects of HIV/AIDS from the level of a company's large-scale strategy, to the smaller and more personal level of the individual workplace.	LINK A Closer Look at Business Education: HIV/AIDS Featured Collection: HIV/AIDS and Strategy Case Study: De Beers Consolidated Mines: HIV/AIDS Strategy

Aspen CBE's Recent Releases

CBE Announcements

Seeking Business Leaders for Aspen's Inaugural First Movers Fellowship

The First Mover's Fellowship is a one year program for senior business professionals - extraordinary social intrapreneurs - who often work against company norms and the skepticism of colleagues to achieve remarkable changes in business practice and impact. They will come from different countries, industries, areas of functional responsibility. What they will have in common is a demonstrated passion for working at the intersection of business growth and positive social change.

Full details can be found at
www.aspeninstitute.org/firstmoversnomination.

Email Nancy McGaw at Nan cy.McGaw@aspeninst.org

to share your ideas.
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Call for Faculty Thoughts on the Financial Crisis

Aspen CBE is planning a response to the subprime and broader financial crisis and would like to interview faculty who are currently addressing these topics in their courses. We'd like to hear your thoughts on how business education can address these current events and help to guard against a recurrence of similar problems. To share your point of view, please contact Rachel Shattuck at rachel.shattuck@aspeninst.org.

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

CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY IN A GLOBAL ECONOMY

By Dr. Jennifer J. Griffin, The George Washington University

Corporate responsibility in a global economy--defined as effectively managing the policies, practices, and impacts of global businesses to co-create value with far-flung stakeholder networks--is increasingly difficult, yet more important, in a world of globally wired consumers, employees, and enterprises. Read more.

Faculty Pioneers 2008

Overlooking Times Square from the corporate headquarters of Ernst & Young, the Aspen Institute's Center for Business Education held a reception on November 5th to announce and recognize the 2008 Faculty Pioneers. The annual recognition, dubbed the "Oscars of the business school world" by the Financial Times, celebrates MBA faculty who have demonstrated leadership and risk-taking in integrating social and environment issues into academic research, educational programs and business practice. Click here to see this year's winners.

FP awards

More CBE Announcements

The Giving Voice to Values Curriculum Initiative

Aspen CBE has recently posted all curricular materials related to the Giving Voice to Values (GVV) Initiative. This wide collection of GVV teaching materials, including Teaching Modules and Cases, is now available through CasePlace.org.

GVV is an innovative new approach to business ethics education created jointly by The Aspen Institute Business and Society Program and Yale School of Management. The curriculum includes materials that can be used in courses across the management curriculum. Drawing on both the actual experiences of business practitioners as well as cutting edge social science and management research, Giving Voice to Values fills a long-standing and critical gap in business education by expanding the definition of what it means to teach business ethics. The curriculum starts from the question: "What if I were going to act on my values? What would I say and do? How could I be most effective?"

Click here to view the GVV library on CasePlace.org.

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