Center for Corporate Sustainability & Ethics

About Us

Today's corporate leaders must balance their company's economic goals with the need to incorporate:

Sustainable business practices

Society's ethical expectations

Corporate citizenship

Corporate social responsibility

Environmental justice

The activity of NGOs (Non Governmental Organizations), legislators and regulators and unique investor segments causes corporate leaders to strive to find and implement best practices to satisfy stakeholder expectations.

To support the business community, the University of Dallas' Graduate School of Management is forming a Center for Corporate Sustainability & Ethics. The Center's mission is to provide best practices and real-world solutions for building, improving and maintaining sustainable operations and ethical cultures for long-term business success, including those practices that go beyond environmental compliance.

Center elements include:

Business Partnership: member companies explore best practices/relevant research in quarterly seminars.

Corporate Sustainability Knowledgebase: database to capture, record and organize global best practices.

Business Seminars: business community conferences for current practices in ethics & sustainability.

Graduate/Undergraduate Courses: educational materials and research for students & executives.

79% of 1,000 CEOs interviewed globally believe sustainability is vital to the profitability of any company.

PricewaterhouseCoopers,Global CEO Survey

47% of sophisticated investors report that a company's reputation as a good corporate citizen strongly influences their option to invest.

Wirthlin Worldwide

Companies in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI) outperform the DJIA.

The Harvard Business Review favorably identified University of Dallas' unique approach to integrating a business education and ethical values.

May 2005

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