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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 by and nodes of research available at Schulich, including the popular Annual JD/MBA Conference, the Schulich International Case Competition, and the [...]

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 Centre for Community Innovation, and York University’s Hennick Centre for Business and Law. I would like to expand that list further by giving a brief [...]

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 Réseau d’Éthique Organisationnelle du Québec (RÉOQ, or Quebec Organizational Ethics Network) is illustrative of this trend. It should be noted that while [...]

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 representative in a world-wide network committed to corporate social responsibility.” With offices in the Canadian business hubs of Vancouver, Toronto, and Calgary, the CBSR has a [...]

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 conglomeration of multinational companies including IBM, Johnson & Johnson, Microsoft, Shell, and Unilever, as well as a number of top-tier European [...]

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 and experiences led him to believe that “the finance sector should serve the common good as well as making profits.” In particular, Robin had [...]