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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 [...]

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 (3ci) are doing much of the talking these days. Dr. Hebb is a leading advocate of SRI and social finance projects, and [...]

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 empower initiatives across the country which are designed to strengthen environmental, social, and corporate governance principles. I have written much about the growing [...]

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. 3Ci is definitely a major node for Canadian knowledge mobilization in the responsible investment sector, and it is our pleasure to announce that [...]

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 in avoiding those funds which are even nominally connected to merchants of “dirty” energy. Naturally, for anyone who is aware of [...]