Last Saturday, December 2, was the “Virtual Round” of the 16th annual Net Impact Case Competition (NICC), consisting of an online submission of a short PowerPoint presentation with audio narration from MBA teams. Teams were asked to creatively analyze a particular issue from the first part of this year’s case...
On October 26 th , experts from Colorado state and local government, NGOs, business leaders and universities gathered at the University of Colorado Boulder for the Regional Summit on Refugee Issues , to discuss the role of businesses and business schools in integrating refugees into communities and local economies. Notable...
The CU Boulder provost and executive vice chancellor for academic affairs announced today that Dr. Sharon Matusik has been named Interim Dean of the Leeds School of Business and will start in January 2017. She currently serves as Senior Associate Dean for Faculty and Research and Professor of Strategy and...
By Alexa Levine, CESR Fellows Correspondent and Content Producer, Leeds 2019 CESR Fellows kicked off the fall 2016 semester with eight new student-elected executive board members and a jam-packed schedule including speakers, workshops and networking events. To give students the opportunity to become more involved in the student group, CESR...
The Center for Education on Social Responsibility (CESR) presents a new course in Germany, May 13-21, 2017, through the First-Year Global Experience program at Leeds School of Business. The focus of this 2-credit course is “Leadership Challenges: Ethics, Efficiency, Expansion and Social Responsibility in Germany,” with studies centered in Berlin...
SEEDS (Social Entrepreneurship for Equitable Development & Sustainability) has just won their second cross-campus Entrepreneurship Initiative Seed Award for close to $20k per year from the SEED/Flatiron Initiative to support the Jumpstart! Boulder initiative. Jumpstart! Boulder, the primary initiative of SEEDS, was designed to answer the “what next” question facing...
A champion of corporate social responsibility, Josephine M. Maalouf stands squarely at the intersection of real estate and social responsibility. An early recognition of the social responsibility of business has helped her develop a balance between the need for corporate financial performance and the development needs of her country. As...
More than 65 million people are displaced in the world today, the highest number on record since the UN High Commission on Refugees (UNHCR) began collecting statistics. More than 21 million of these people have crossed international borders in search of safety as refugees. This is the greatest exodus of...
Over the summer two distinguished advisory board members stepped down after impactful contributions to the Center for Education on Social Responsibility (CESR) and the Leeds School of Business, as well as to local and global communities. Rich Hoops Rich Hoops’ five years on CESR’s board have been fully engaged with...
As one of the first Marc Prisant and Heidi Heltzel Scholarship for Ethics and Social Responsibility recipients, Jamie Green has continued to make the CESR team proud with her current position at KPMG in Chicago, one of the Big 4 Accounting Firms. A CESR standout Having worked as a CESR...
