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January 20-23 – Global leaders in politics and business met for the World Economic Forum ’s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland. The topic of focus this year was ' Mastering the Fourth Industrial Revolution' , and included panel discussions on a range of topics covering, among others, international diplomacy, the...

View the winning teams here ! December 5 – The Â鶹ӰԺ and the Leeds School of Business host the 2015/16 Net Impact Case Competition (NICC)! The Net Impact Case Competition, the oldest sustainability competition of its kind in the world, places real-world sustainability business cases in front...

(Jenna Bieller, Lucas Light) December 2015 Winter graduations are typically smaller than those in the spring, but that doesn’t make them any less exciting. CESR is proud to congratulate our two December graduates, Jenna Bieller and Lucas Light, who leave the Leeds School of Business with CESR’s Socially Responsible Enterprise...

By Mark Meaney CESR Executive Director Events leading up to Tim Wolfe’s resignation as the University of Missouri System president highlight the benefits of CESR pedagogy. With the best of intentions, Mr. Wolfe met with students during a student demonstration. A student asked him how he would define ‘systematic oppression’...

It’s a CESR Celebration! October 14th marked the annual CESR Alumni gathering with alumni from former Leadership Challenges classes and graduates of the Socially Responsible Enterprise (SRE) Certificate. Also in attendance were members of the current Leadership Challenges course, members and officers of the newly formed CESR Fellows student group,...

CESR Fellows Founding Executive Board, Lauren Morrell President Class of 2016, Finance Why did you join the CESR Fellows Executive Board? "CESR Fellows is exactly what my business school experience has been missing. Immersed in a world of traditional business education, it can be challenging to locate the,surprising number of...

A Wonderfully Busy Week for CESR Just two days after organizing and leading the discussion for CESR’s Conscious Capitalism Conference, CESR Instructor David Payne brought together impact business thought leaders from the industries of solar energy, social impact education, healthcare systems, and magazine publishing for the 3rd annual SRE Impact...

Building CESR & B Corp Relationships Recently, CESR MBA Instructor David Sanders Payne was invited to speak at the Center for Social Impact Learning (CSIL) at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey (MIIS) for their first ever Millennial Impact Speakers Series Presentation: “B Corps: People Using Business as...

The Conference CESR’s 2015 Conscious Capitalism Conference was a vibrant exchange of knowledge and ideas on the topic of social impact investing, featuring experts and pioneers in the industry, who presented to an audience of students, faculty and staff from 5 universities, and community members. CESR's Conscious Capitalism Conference has...

(Alexa McNaul, Chris Matthews, Lauren Morrell, left to right) Leeds Students Launch Net Impact Undergraduate Chapter For over 15 years, the Leeds School of Business has been home to an MBA graduate Net Impact chapter recently recognized as one of the top-three chapters in the world. Undergraduate students at Leeds...