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Global Perspectives

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The Center for Leadership & Social Responsibility encourages students to engage with their community - using the power of business to create mutual benefit for all stakeholders, locally and globally.
 

Managing Change for a Better World

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The Center encourages students, faculty and business to consider how decisions affect all stakeholders...large and small.

Sustainable Futures

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Sustainability issues, from the personal to the global, are at the forefront of socially responsible business practice.  We encourage active discussion about sustainability issues.

Sustainable Business Practice

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As consumer demand shifts, "how" we do business is gaining ground in order to meet expectations.  Our graduates must be up to the challenge of a changing marketplace.

Engaging Community - Empowering Employees

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A new generation of students is seeking meaningful employment with engaged companies.

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Case Competition

Attend an information session: Thursday, March 11th at 12:30, DOU 201.

Combine the knowledge you've gained from courses along with your teamwork skills to tackle a real-life business case. Compete with other student teams as you analyze a business situation to develop solution recommendations that you will present to a panel of local business professionals.

Nonprofit Governance Course
 
A new service-learning course has been developed in the Milgard School of Business to teach Nonprofit Governance to students who will "serve" in internships on the boards of local organizations.  This is a two-course sequence starting with TMGMT 465, Nonprofit Governance I winter 2010 followed by TMGMT 466 Nonprofit Governance II in spring 2010.
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July 15 - 16, 2010

"Connecting Across the Disciplines"

The Center for Leadership and Social Responsibility at the Milgard School of Business, University of Washington Tacoma is pleased to announce its first academic research conference. The conference aims to facilitate high quality, rigorous scholarship on a wide range of social responsibility issues.

The Milgard School of Business Center for Leadership and Social Responsibility is now accepting research papers for the July 15 - 16, 2010 Academic Conference on Social Responsibility.  Theoretical and empirical papers are welcomed on a wide range of topics related to social practices of businesses.  The deadline for submissions is January 31, 2010.

    

For the 2009-2010 academic year, the Center has designated two of the Milgard School of Business faculty as our Center Research Fellows. 

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Journal Editors Panel
     
Duane Ireland - Academy of Mgmt. Journal
Steve Kachelmeier - Accounting Review 
Ajay Kohli - Journal of Marketing

Scholars Panel
   
Ron Hill - Marketing
Jeanne Logsdon - Management
Dennis Patten - Accounting

Take a look at the websites or annual reports of virtually any Fortune 500, global corporation and you will find some reference to their social agenda, their community engagement, strategic philanthropy,

Getty Images creates positive change in the world through imagery – their core business strength. Their support of the Center for Leadership & Social Responsibility through these images is a clear demonstration of strong commitment to improved practice of corporate citizenship – in a values-oriented, strengths-based way.