CESR Blog

Lorna Christoff, CESR Instructor, comments on a blog post about Lance Armstrong and cultivating your professional reputation. I was struck by the lesson for our students in Jane Miller’s (CEO of Rudi’s Bakery) recent post on her career development blog for young professionals. In her informal blog post , Jane...

CESR Instructor Elizabeth Stapp sounds off about the consequences of our "throw away" culture. We are a throw away society. This is no accident. In fact, many corporations depend on our desire to consume, basing their business model on planned obsolescence. Planned obsolescence focuses on designing a product-from its inception-to...

Elizabeth Stapp, CESR Instructor, comments on the demise of a whistle blower. In BCOR 3010, Business Applications of Social Responsibility, we begin the semester looking at our values, ethical decision-making, moral relativism, and defining moments. When former President of Olympus Michael Woodford blew the whistle on corporate fraud, he became...

As most students and faculty enjoyed their summer breaks, the staff at CESR transformed into a new administrative team! Ann Richmond heads things up as our new interim Assistant Director of CESR Operations. Ann comes to CESR with over seven years of experience working at Leeds and is managing CESR...

Francy Milner, former CESR Instructor and Associate Director and current member of the External Advisory Board, shared with TiE members how CESR is preparing our students to “lead the way” in creating enterprises to solve global social and environmental problems. TiE Rockies’ mission is to “support the entrepreneur” via a...

The Socially Responsible Enterprise (SRE) Certificate , offered by CESR, is an opportunity for students with an interest in the mission of CESR to customize their education and distinguish themselves from their peers. “I’m passionate about making the business world a better, safer, more ethical place - that’s where my...

The Leeds School has been ranked one of the Top 10 Undergrad Business Schools for Sustainability by Bloomberg Businessweek . Leeds ranked 6th out of 124 undergraduate business schools in the area of sustainability by undergraduate business students in the most recent ranking. The Best Undergraduate B-Schools ranking survey asked...

It comes as no surprise to those who know Dee Perry, a CESR Board Member, that she has been honored by the Community Foundation of Boulder County with the Stan Black Award . The award honors individuals who, like Stan Black, have given a lifetime of "time, treasure and talent"...

Mark Francis, a discussion leader for BCOR 1010 , is this year’s winner of the Brent Graber Memorial “Most Outstanding Discussion Leader of the Year,” as voted by his peers. Mark finished his first year with CESR in May and has jumped wholeheartedly into the Center. He taught a summer...

As students return to Leeds, CESR adds a second section of Leadership Challenges , continues to offer the Integrated Reporting course first taught last spring, and prepares for a new class, Corporate Boards in Action , to be introduced in the spring semester. Integrated Reporting for Socially Responsible Strategies was...