Apr 18, 2007

Teaching sustainability in Business Schools?
This sounds too good, but it is from csrwire.com:

"Colleges and universities around the world are increasingly integrating CSR into their curricula and beyond.Academia is increasingly embracing corporate sustainability and responsibility.

This week, for example, Marlboro College Graduate Center in Brattleboro, Vermont announced the launching of a new, accredited MBA program in Managing for Sustainability. Marlboro tips its hat in acknowledging the influence of trailblazing sustainability-oriented MBA programs such as Bainbridge Graduate Institute in Washington, which topped a recent ranking of sustainable business programs by Net Impact, the global student organization promoting CSR.

And the campus greening trend is truly global, as a group of MBAs from Instituto de Empresa in Madrid recently earned the title of "Global Champions of Sustainable Innovation" from Thunderbird School of Global Management.

Traditional business schools are getting into the act as well. This week Harvard Business School announced its Second Annual Microfinance Leadership Program in collaboration with microfinance pioneer ACCION International.

Earlier this month, Harvard Business Review announced the McKinsey Award for the most significant article of 2006 went to Michael Porter and Mark Kramer's "Strategy and Society: The Link Between Competitive Advantage and Corporate Social Responsibility."

Across town, the Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship launched a new magazine entitled The Corporate Citizen earlier this year, extending the center's longstanding contribution to CSR. Finally, academic institutions themselves recently received grades on the social and environmental responsibility of their campus programs and endowment investing from the Sustainable Endowments Institute in The College Sustainability Report Card.

...och glöm inte Net Impact excursionen till Globe Hope nästa måndag! Anmäl dig senast i morgon (19.4).

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