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...
CESR is excited to announce the first recipients of the Donna T. and Gary L. Antonoff Scholarship fund: Julia Severson, Austin Leyba, Dylan Stanton, Noel Ramirez Ortega and Hailey Dearman. Donna T. and Gary L. Antonoff Scholarship The Donna T. and Gary L. Antonoff Scholarship launched in 2016 rewarding five...
Often times our smartphones are our lifelines, containing everything from vacation photos to important work emails. What is commonly overlooked by us consumers are the work and material that goes into producing our favorite technology. Shockingly, for something as compact as a phone, the production consists of questionable work ethics...
More and more businesses are joining the movement of conscious capitalism – choosing to evaluate their success on the “triple bottom line”: their impact on people and the planet, as well as making a profit. As a consequence, people leading CSR efforts within their companies are looking for ways to...
In 2015 students pursuing CESR's Socially Responsible Enterprise (SRE) Certificate were introduced to the Marc Prisant and Heidi Heltzel Scholarship for Ethics and Social Responsibility. Among the first three outstanding students awarded was Denver native, Jordyn Johnson. "Whenever someone believes in me enough to fund my education, I know that...
By Alexa Levine, CESR Fellows Correspondent and Content Producer, Leeds 2019 By the end of spring semester, 68 students had enrolled in CESR Fellows, a group sponsored by the Center for Education on Social Responsibility (CESR), for those with a passion for values-driven business and making a positive social and...
Twin sisters and social entrepreneurs Miki and Radha Agrawal are Millennials, a generation characterized by the sisters as idealistic, searching, spiritual and progressive, with a meaningful approach to business as a force for community. They were recently profiled in Conscious Company Magazine . “…The future of entrepreneurship is social entrepreneurship...
Copenhagen Fashion Summit 2016 Kara Ladd, Leeds graduate and contributor to The New York Observer, recently covered the Copenhagen Fashion Summit which gathers industry leaders to examine fashion’s environmental and social footprint. For its fourth edition, the Copenhagen Fashion Summit took place early May with a variety of fashion, political...
