CESR Blog

On Friday November 3rd, CESR participated in a Leeds Explores trip to Denver to learn from socially responsible businesses with sustainable practices. Twenty students participated in the company visits, organized in collaboration with the Deming Center for Entrepreneurship and the Leeds Career Development Office . Sustainability-focused visits included GroundFloor Media,...

A career in finance can provide you with the opportunity to drive change in the business world. Olivia O’Toole, an alumna who graduated with a Bachelor’s in Economics and a Masters in Finance, has begun her career at BSW Wealth Partners in impact investing where she works to promote investment...

Today, climate change has become a hot topic as annual global temperatures are on the rise, largely resulting from escalating carbon dioxide emissions. Siddharth Vedula, who recently received his PhD at the Leeds School of Business, and Jeffrey G. York , Associate Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at Leeds, identify...

As you walk around Leeds, you might notice that CESR’s posters now look a little different. This April, Marc Prisant, chair of our Advisory Board , headed the decision to change CESR’s name from the Center for Education on Social Responsibility to the Center for Ethics and Social Responsibility ...

In collaboration with the College of Media, Communication and Information, CESR is proud to announce our 9 th annual Conscious Capitalism Conference: Colorado Shared Ownership Summit . In this one-day event, the strength and diversity of shared ownership models will be showcased. But what is shared ownership? Shared ownership business...

Leeds School of Business 2017 Sharing Information on Progress Report The Center for Ethics and Social Responsibility (CESR) is proud to hold an international leadership role in ethical business education through our work with the UN Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) . Through this work, we are spreading the...

CESR’s Executive Director Mark Meaney, and Carla Fredericks , the Director of the American Indian Law Program, spoke at the 17 th Session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) on April 25, 2018 in New York. Their presentation focused on research being done as part of...

January 26 – CESR Instructor, David Payne, and the MBA students of Topics in Sustainable Business host representatives from twelve local businesses for this year’s Sustainability Marketplace . A requirement of Topics in Sustainable Business is a consulting-style project where MBAs select a company to advise and assist in a...