Georgetown University is a Catholic and Jesuit student-centered research university. Established in 1789 in the spirit of the new republic, the university was founded on the principle that serious and sustained discourse among people of different faiths, cultures, and beliefs promotes intellectual, ethical and spiritual understanding. Georgetown educates men and women to be reflective life-long learners, to be responsible and active participants in civil life, and to live generously in service to others.

In keeping with the best traditions of Georgetown University, the McDonough School of Business is dedicated to the goals of educating ethically responsible business leaders and producing new knowledge that will improve both the management of organizations and their contributions to life in a global society.

The McDonough School seeks to accomplish these goals by providing its MBA students with an intense culture of business ethics, which it cultivates in several ways: through interdisciplinary academic centers such as the Georgetown Business Ethics Institute and the Center for Business and Public Policy, by requiring every MBA student to complete a course in business ethics, by infusing issues and cases dealing with social responsibility in its second year Global Integrative experience as well as in elective courses across the business disciplines, and by forging close partnerships with other Georgetown University programs, including the Landegger Program in International Business Diplomacy in the Walsh School of Foreign Service and the Georgetown Public Policy Institute. The school's chapter of Net Impact won the 2004 Chapter of the Year Award.

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Contact Details Georgetown University
Robert Emmett McDonough School of Business
206 Old North
3700 O Street, NW
Washington , DC 20057
United States

Website : www.georgetown.edu/

The Business School at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has added a number of classes over the last three years to help prepare MBA students for the challenge of operating a business in a sustainable manner. We have also added key faculty (Ann Terlaak who comes to us with a background in Environmental Management and Tom Eggert who splits time between the Business School and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources). In addition, we are developing expertise in environmental risk management, and many faculty are addressing areas related to social and environmental responsibility in accounting, strategy, risk and quality.

The Business School has also brought in a number of prominent speakers to speak to the university community on subjects relating to the social and environmental responsibilities of business. A student group grew out of our Environmental Strategy and Sustainability class that is dedicated to advancing the idea that businesses can and should operate in a sustainable manner and a Net Impact chapter has been created.

The Business School has also expanded its relationship with the Gaylord Nelson Institute of Environmental Studies by cross-listing three new business courses in the Institute's selection of courses. The mix of business and IES students in classes offers a diversity of perspectives and viewpoints that makes for an exciting learning environment.

Faculty from the Business School and other schools on campus participate in an informal faculty environmental roundtable every other Tuesday morning during the school year. Virtually all participants are adjunct faculty in the Institute for Environmental Studies. This roundtable was organized by William Cronon, the Fredrick Jackson Turner Professor of Environmental History. In addition, several business school professors have drawn on the rich tradition of the UW-Madison in environmental knowledge and expertise, and invited non-business professors to make guest presentations in School of Business courses.

Many of our professors make good use of the expertise in the business community by bringing senior managers in to talk to their classes about such things as "The Role of Heart in Running a Business" and "What Systems Thinking Means for Sustainability". In addition, the Business School continues to work with potential funders on expanding our commitment to sustainability by broadening the class options for students.

Wisconsin has a rich history in the area of social responsibility. It was one of three founders of the Consortium for Graduate Studies in Management, the country’s first cooperative equal educational opportunity graduate fellowship program for minorities. It created the first graduate program in the country in a variety of fields, including applied security analysis and arts administration and in recent years has created highly focused MBA program based on career specializations ranging from corporate finance to marketing research.

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Contact Details Wisconsin-Madison, University of School of Business
975 University Ave
Grainger Hall
Madison , WI 53706
United States

Website : www.wisc.edu

The recent emphasis on sustainable development and corporate social responsibility is nothing new for IESE. Since its founding in 1958, IESE has always treated ethics and social responsibility as essential to the training of future business leaders.

This year IESE is launching “Partners for Change,” as a contribution to EABIS, to develop future business school faculty. IESE believes we must find new ways of shaping the learning experience, which enables future managers to make decisions with awareness of their impact on society and the environment.

IESE has introduced a course on Social Entrepreneurship in its MBA program, which has proved popular. Courses underscoring the importance of these issues include: Competitive Strategy, Global Economics, Emerging Economies, Social Entrepreneurship, Sustainable Development and the BOP, Corporate Strategy, Management in the Health Sector and Family Business.

IESE’s commitment to these issues is reflected by its research centers and publishing activities. IESE has partnered with the Schwab Foundation to create a case-study series examining the challenges facing social entrepreneurs. We are also working with Ashoka, another organization supporting social entrepreneurs. In addition, this year the school is hosting the first International Social Entrepreneurship Conference, in collaboration with NYU and INSEAD. The event has led to further IESE research, with a book on social entrepreneurship to be published by Palgrave.

Since 1990, IESE has organized the annual International Symposium on Business, Ethics and Society. Last year’s theme was “Accounting and Accountability: A Challenge for Corporate Culture.”

Being internationally focused, IESE actively promotes social entrepreneurship across continents. This summer, IESE faculty will be teaching a course on Social Entrepreneurship at the China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) in Shanghai. CEIBS, the Asian Institute of Management, Copenhagen Business School and IESE are also partnering together in an EU-sponsored program. Through conferences, consulting projects, workshops, internships, social enterprise business-plan competitions and Ph.D. funding for research, the Asian/European knowledge-exchange represents another move toward increasing international awareness in the field of social entrepreneurship and sustainable development.

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Contact Details Navarra, University of IESE Business School
Avda. Pearson, 21
Barcelona 08034
Spain

Website : www.unav.es/english/

School of Business and Economics at the University of Jyväskylä creates and disseminates expertise based on scientific research for management, entrepreneurship and economic decision making needs, maintaining strong links to the surrounding community by actively promoting our latest research results and professional expertise. School of Business and Economics at the University of Jyväskylä has been proactive in integrating both environmental and social management in its curriculum, research and other activities. For example, Jyväskylä has been the first university in the whole of Scandinavia offering a full master’s and doctoral program in corporate environmental management since 1995. Environmental and/or social issues are an important part integrated in the strategic focus areas of the School of Business and Economics. The focus areas of the disciplines include: corporate environmental management; age-management, ethics in leadership and corporate social responsibility in management; ethics in accounting; social responsibility and family business in entrepreneurship; and labor and regional economics.

The approaches for addressing three dimensions of sustainability in the curriculum of the School of Business and Economics have been diverse: 1) As the separate unit leading the way towards sustainable management, there is a specialized master's and doctoral program, corporate environmental management, which is training specialists for environmental management positions; 2) A required course ‘Business, society and the environment’ for all the management students offers basic knowledge about sustainability issues to future business managers; and 3) Environmental and social issues have been integrated into several courses in all the disciplines of the school to ensure that sustainability issues are not just a specialty area of a small expert group.

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Contact Details Jyvaeskylae, University of School of Business and Economics
P.O. Box 35, University of Jyväskylä
Jyväskylä FIN-40014
Finland

Website : www.jyu.fi

The Haskayne School of Business is closely linked to globally-oriented resource-based industries headquartered in western Canada, namely energy, mining, forestry and tourism. These industries were the first to feel the effects of societal changes with respect to demands for sustainable development. Consequently, Haskayne has played a leadership role in integrating management of environmental and social impact issues into the MBA curriculum.

Environmental and social impact management has been integrated into core disciplinary courses of the MBA. Specialized MBA courses covering environmental and social impact are offered regularly as electives. In 2003-2004 we introduced two new courses called "Sustainable Resource Development with Indigenous People" and "Leadership Rediscovered: The Haskayne Wilderness Experience". This latter course is an experiential course focused on leadership for sustainability and was conducted at a field station in the Rocky Mountains.

Since 1994, an MBA specialization has been offered in Environmental Management and Sustainable Development. Beginning in 1996 an MSc in Energy and Environment for Latin America has been offered in Quito, Ecuador. Based on its success, in 2002 an MSc in Energy and Environment for the Caribbean was established in Couva, Trinidad and Tobago. That same year, an MBA specialization in Global Energy Management and Sustainable Development (GEMS) was created in Calgary with students drawn from Canada and from our collaborative MBA program in Beijing, China. Also in 2002, an MBA (GEMS) program was established in Tehran, Iran for the energy industry. The Haskayne School also offers "Competitive Strategy and Sustainable Development" sessions in non-degree executive programs.

Two major new research initiatives were undertaken in 2003-2004 in the area of sustainable development innovation (SDI), and in resource extraction, sustainable development and indigenous people.

Haskayne MBA student and alumni conferences regularly feature corporate social responsibility. The Haskayne School of Business has developed many original conceptual and case teaching materials dealing with resource industries and sustainability in an international context. These are used in Master's programs.

Professor Harrie Vredenburg has hosted a popular monthly environmental management/sustainable development public seminar series at Haskayne since 1994, featuring expert speakers from academia, industry, government and NGOs locally, nationally and internationally. This program is well attended by students, industry, government agency and NGO representatives, providing an ideal forum for discussing sustainable development and social impact issues.

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Contact Details Calgary, University of Haskayne School of Business
Scurfield Hall
2500 University Drive NW
Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4
Canada

Website : www.ucalgary.ca

“Let us choose to unite the power of markets with the authority of universal ideals. Let us choose to reconcile the forces of private entrepreneurship with the needs of the disadvantaged and the requirements of future generations.” – Kofi Annan

The Case|Weatherhead Center for Business as an Agent of World Benefit responded to the Secretary General’s call by working with the UN Global Compact to design and lead a summit for 500 CEOs and world leaders. It was the largest corporate citizenship meeting of its kind ever held at the UN. Annan later singled out one of Case|Weatherhead’s strengths in fostering business and society impact saying, “I would like to commend you for your methodology of Appreciative Inquiry and to thank you for introducing it to the United Nations. Without this, it would have been very difficult, perhaps even impossible, to constructively engage so many leaders of business, civil society and government.” The Case team was made up of MBA and PhD students. It was a prime example of our action learning commitment, bringing students from finance and strategy and other disciplines into the frontiers of the CSR field.

The mission of the Center for Business as an Agent of World Benefit—launched in 2004 with an award of $1.8 million-- is to advance extraordinary business and society innovation, revolutionizing the way the world eradicates poverty, restores the biosphere, and creates global understanding and peace. Dean Myron Roomkin of the Weatherhead School of Management has declared its work as one of four strategic priorities, and, it is a cornerstone of the Case President’s vision—“to be the most powerful learning environment in the world ….so people are prepared and engaged to serve humanity.” Within the management school the Center has been designated by the Dean as a “school within a school”, such as the Woodrow Wilson School, where it will offer a major concentration in sustainability. Fundraising for a $20 million endowment is underway, while core building blocks are already in place: the AI Certificate Program on Business and Society Change (for MBA’s and leaders of change); the Institute for Sustainable Enterprise; the Executive Doctorate in Management; the Masters in Positive Organization Development; the Center for Regional Economics; and the Institute for Information and Sustainable Design. And, in addition to popular electives such as “Leadership and the Global Agenda” every MBA student is today required to take LEAD— Leadership Assessment and Development course—where ethics and social responsibility are developmentally connected to each student’s learning plan for the “ideal self”.

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Contact Details Case Western Reserve University
Weatherhead School of Management
Peter B. Lewis Building
10900 Euclid Avenue
999
Cleveland , OH 44106
United States

Website : www.case.edu

The mission of the Yale School of Management (SOM) is to educate leaders for business and society. We believe superb business and management skills are critical for leadership in every sector of the economy. We embed this philosophy into all aspects of life at Yale SOM, which enables us to attract students who share a commitment to integrating business skills with social and environmental values across the public, private and nonprofit sectors.

Many courses incorporate international, social and environmental issues using a combination of theory and case studies to equip students with the rich set of tools required to manage in the increasingly complex environment in which they will work. The School shares in Yale's world-class faculty and resources, and is recognized, among many areas of business education for nonprofit management and economic development. Formal joint degree programs permit students to specialize in fields that intersect with business, including international affairs, law, public health and environment. Historically, the most popular joint program is the joint MBA/Master's of Environmental Management, offered in conjunction with one of the world's leading environmental institutions, the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies .

Yale SOM's flagship events demonstrate our commitment to building careers across sectors. The Internship Fund (the first of its kind at any business school) unites the Yale SOM community in financial support of students who choose to take summer internships with civil society organizations. In 1986, Yale SOM became the first business school to help alleviate the educational loan obligations of graduates who pursue public or nonprofit management careers through the Yale SOM Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program. SOM Outreach, a student-run organization providing pro bono consulting services to nonprofit, public and private organizations in New Haven, broadens the learning experience through practical application of coursework while fostering relationships between Yale and the community. Yale sends one of the largest delegations to Net Impact's annual national conference on responsible business, and many students go on to work directly or indirectly in social and environmental fields

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Contact Details Yale University
School of Management
PO Box 208200
135 Prospect St.
New Haven , CT 06520-8200
United States

Website : www.yale.edu

The Faculty at Portland State University revised the MBA curriculum beginning 2004 Fall Term. In addition to the traditional development of business acumen, the curriculum of the program focuses on the development of a student’s leadership skills and understanding of the innovation process within organizations. However, the faculty specifically stated that this curriculum should be taught in the context that would provide students “an understanding of creativity, entrepreneurship, and social and environmental sustainability.”

Although topics related to social and environmental sustainability are discussed in many required courses, the primary required courses that address these issues are Ethics in Organizations and Managing Operations and Supply Chain. Topics addressed in the required ethics course include business ethics, corporate social responsibility, and managerial integrity. The operations course introduces the students to basic operations and supply chain issues. In addition, “issues around the use of natural systems and other models of managing work will be considered within a perspective of sustainable organizations.”

These required courses ensure that all graduates of the MBA program have been introduced about social and environmental sustainability. In addition, Portland State MBA students have the opportunity to consider sustainability issues in a more in-depth manner by completing a graduate level certificate in sustainability.

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Contact Details Portland State University School of Business Administration
Portland State University
School of Business Administration
PO Box 751
631 SW Harrison St
Portland , OR 97207
United States

Website : www.pdx.edu

Since its inception in 1968, the Asian Institute of Management adopted the following mission: to develop competent, responsible managers for Asia. Its role is to help provide the managerial component in the process of social, political, technological and economic development. AIM believes that it has a responsibility to develop socially responsible managers who possess integrity, honesty and high ethical standards and who will try to humanize the corporation, understand the ethical implications of every management decision, and feel a personal sense of responsibility for their workers.

AIM is the acknowledged authority on Asian management systems, which it infuses with a global perspective. AIM leads the regions socio-economic transformation by offering unique educational opportunities and cross-cultural experiences to citizens from developing and developed economies. The Institute’s multinational character encourages deep understanding of the cross-cultural issues in the region. It instills in the students a sense of community and promotes a world-view that prepares students for a dynamic alumni networking.

AIM has four schools namely: W.SyCip Graduate School of Business, the Center for Development Management, the Asian Center for Entrepreneurship , and the Executive Education and Lifelong Learning Center. To become more relevant to Asia’s concerns, AIM expanded its scope of activities to include rural development management and the management of government agencies and institutions, and of other non-profit organizations. Transcending beyond the normal parameters of commerce, AIM has involved itself in social development, corporate governance,

the humanities, and management of non-profit organizations not only through its courses but also its centers of excellence: the AIM Policy Center, the Gov. Jose B. Fernandez, Jr. Center for Banking and Finance, the Ramon V. del Rosario, Sr. Center for Corporate Responsibility, AIM-Mirant Center for Bridging Societal Divides, and the Hills Center for Governance. AIM also holds the distinction of being the first graduate school of management in the world to be awarded an ISO 14001 Certification by Det Norske Veritas (DNV) for its Environmental Management System. The institution-wide AIM EMS aims to increase environmental awareness, ensure productive use of natural, human, technological, and social resources, and provide a safe work environment. AIM is accredited by both AACSB and EFMD, making AIM one of the few schools to achieve dual accreditation. In 2001, AIM was honored with the 1st Beyond Grey Pinstripes Award for Business School Innovation in Social Impact Management. In 2002, AIM was selected by World Bank as its strategic partner in Asia with the establishment of the AIM-World Bank Global Distance Learning Center. This makes AIM the first private management institution in the world to partner with World Bank. AIM was also designated by the Asian Development Bank as a Center of Excellence, a partner in knowledge creation and management, and a collaborator in the task of delivering programs that cultivate progress in Asian societies. Also, AIM signed a Memorandum of Understanding for a strategic alliance with the United Nations Environment Programme-International Environment Technology Center (UNEP-ITC). The Alliance enables AIM to deliver training programs on environmental management to the Center's constituents.

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Contact Details Asian Institute of Management
Washington SyCip Graduate School of Business
Eugenio Lopez Foundation Building
Joseph R. McMicking Campus
123 Paseo de Roxas
Makati City 1260
Philippines

Website : www.aim.edu

The Robert O. Anderson Graduate School of Management at the University of New Mexico is committed to educating students for ethical and responsible management. This commitment is long-standing.

• Since the 1970s, the curriculum for the MBA and all other programs has included a core course focusing on social responsibility and ethical behavior.
• The faculty who teach these core courses are primarily tenured and tenure-track professors with training in the business-and-society field.
• MBA students are offered elective seminar courses with a significant emphasis on environmental management and/or social impact management, including Ecology and Management, Managerial Ethics, Creative Leadership, Public Affairs and Public Relations, Women in Management, the Washington Campus Program, and American Indian Business and Management.
• 90% of the other courses in the core curriculum incorporate topics, projects, and cases that highlight social and environmental issues.
• Faculty in a number of disciplines in the school conduct research that includes social impacts and environmental management. Thus, they are able to incorporate treatment of these topics as they relate to accounting, finance, human resource management, information systems, international management, marketing, operations, policy and planning, and technology management.
• Two professorships in business ethics were endowed in 2003 by Jack and Donna Rust. One professorship is for an active scholar, and the other is for an executive in residence with notable accomplishments in ethical management. Activities sponsored through the professorships include the annual MBA Ethics in Business Case Competition.
• The Anderson School has provided support to the its faculty member who served as editor of the academic journal, Business & Society, from 2001-2004.
• Student clubs are active in community service projects, such as providing free tax assistance to disabled adults and collecting food and clothing for the needy.

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Contact Details

New Mexico, The University of The Robert O. Anderson Schools of Management
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque , NM 87131-0001
United States

Website : www.unm.edu