CESR Blog

On Friday February 27th, the University of Colorado’s Leeds School of Business finished in third place at the 4th annual Milgard Invitational Case Competition on Social Responsibility at the University of Washington in Tacoma. The competition provided an opportunity for undergraduate students from 13 schools to explore a real CSR...

Last weekend Mark Meaney, CESR’s executive director, hit the airwaves with ICOSA, an organization which facilitates partnerships and assistance among individuals, businesses, communities, governmental bodies and educational organizations to help foster growth and change. Mark discussed various topics from teaching business ethics using a distinctive pedagogy and how this provides...

As a sequel to the popular San Francisco CSR Career Trek in January, CESR, in partnership with a team of Leeds MBA students (Katie Eisenbrown, Amanda Shatzman and Cassandra Palmer) presented a Boulder CSR Career Trek in late February. “It was great to hear about inspired and inspiring work from...

The Daniels Fund, a grants and scholarship program committed to strengthening principle-based ethics education, has asked CESR executive director Mark Meaney to serve as a member of the Daniels Scholarship committee in choosing the next set of Daniels Scholars. The Daniels Scholarship Program provides a four-year annually-renewable college scholarship for...

CESR is excited to announce its keynote speakers for the Partners in Business Ethics Conference this May 19-20, 2015. Jonas Haertle is head of the Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) secretariat of the United Nations Global Compact Office, responsible for driving the mission of the PRME initiative, the first...

Let’s say you’re a scuba diving aficionado as well as an MBA student focusing on sustainability. Imagine getting the opportunity to develop sustainable diving operations and expand the sustainable diving certificate for Ocean First Institute. This is one of the projects MBA students were able to choose from at the...

One of CESR’s newest board members comes to us from one of the largest global companies in the world, Royal Dutch Shell , with a message she’s passionate about: “’Big’ doesn’t equate to ‘bad.’ Although they’re not perfect, global multi-nationals do so much to build relationships and forge understanding, because...

The job marketplace has caught up to CESR! That was a major takeaway from our first CSR Career Trek. In partnership with Katie Connor, Executive Director of Undergraduate Career Development, and Helen Zucchini, Director of Marketing & Outreach in the MBA Office, CESR sponsored a career trek out to the...

With planned visits to both U.S. coasts in late February, Dr. Mark Meaney prepares to address ethics topics at two high-profile conferences. First, CESR’s executive director will touch down in Costa Mesa, California for The Association for Practical and Professional Ethics (APPE) Twenty-fourth Annual International Conference on February 19 -...

It has been an exciting start to the semester for the Socially Responsible Enterprise (SRE) Certificate Program within CESR. The program will graduate the largest class of students in the certificate’s history in May with 30 Leeds undergraduates completing the program. In addition, CESR was extremely fortunate to receive a...