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The Schulich School of Business has been consistently ranked as one of Canada’s best business schools in recent years – if not the very best.  I have written articles here exploring various activities undertaken […]

With its 40th anniversary quickly approaching, the North-South Institute (NSI) will soon be reflecting on the past four decades of its contributions that have made it one of Canada’s most important policy research […]

In the past decade, Quebec has become a focal point of business ethics research and networking, reflected by the appearance of sectoral research centres and consultancies springing up around the province, and the <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/R%C3%89OQ-R%C3%A9seau-d%C3%89thique-Organisationnelle-du-Qu%C3%A9bec/240782555975015"&hellip;[Read more]

In recent months, we here at CBERN have profiled numerous academic research centres trading in business ethics analysis, such as Ryerson’s Institute for the Study of Corporate Social Responsibility, Carleton’s <a […]

There is a lot to be said about emerging trends in responsible investing, and fortunately for the socially responsible investing community, Dr. Tessa Hebb and her team at Carleton’s Community Centre for Innovation […]

A new and emerging category of industry centred on strong, non-profit organizations has been germinating across Canada for the past decade, predicated on the tenets of ethical business. This model is known as […]

Originally established in 1995, the non-profit Canadian Business for Social Responsibility (CBSR) has become a pillar of Canadian business ethics advocacy and the organization views itself as “the Canadian […]

Carleton University’s Centre for Community Innovation (3Ci) was recently featured at our blog and cited for the notable contributions that its members have made to research in social finance since the mid-1990s. […]

When it comes down to the nitty-gritty these days, Canadian investors seem to be heeding the advice of those financial advisers who are working tirelessly to promote socially responsible investments that will […]

The European Academy of Business in Society – also known by its acronym EABIS – is a major hub of international business ethics research located in Brussels, Belgium. Originally launched in 2002 by a […]

The Robin Cozgrove Prize for Ethics in Finance is an independent non-profit organization which was established in 2006 to honour the memory of young investment banker Robin Cosgrove, whose international travels […]

November has finally arrived and the MaRS Centre for Impact Investing is set to once again host its annual Social Finance Forum, with a slew of financial executives, business professionals, and renowned academics […]

Originally launched in the winter of 2011, the Centre for Impact Investing (CII) – located in the heart of Toronto’s MaRS Discovery District – has become a burgeoning focal point for the production and […]

The Standards Council of Canada (SCC) is having quite the busy month this October, recently having celebrated World Standards Day on October 12th (while the rest of the world celebrates it on October 14th, the day […]

For over fifty years, Carleton University has served as one of Canada’s premiere universities for the training and education of young future leaders. Located in the heart of Ottawa, Carleton is positioned near […]

We are less than a month into the New Year, and the business ethics conference circuit is already kicking into high gear, as demonstrated by the upcoming 16th Annual Conference of the JD/MBA Students’ Association […]

The Hennick Centre for Business and Law, founded in 2006 with a generous donation by corporate lawyer Jay Hennick and wife Barbara, is a unique Canadian research institution which strives “to promote and develop […]

In light of the raging debate in Canadian society over the ethics of fossil fuel extraction and use in recent years, socially responsible investors in Canada have been increasingly hard-pressed to take great pains […]

The road to establishing an inclusive structure for the development of corporate social responsibility (CSR) benchmarks in Canada has been fraught with concerns about the breadth of stakeholder involvement since […]