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John Molson School of Business

1455 De Maisonneuve Blvd West, GM 903-25
Montreal, Quebec H3G2P5
Canada

In the school's own words...

With the arrival of Dr. Sanjay Sharma as Dean in the fall of 2007, the John Molson School of Business (JMSB) at Concordia University further increased its focus on integrating sustainability and CSR into its vision of business. Part of the mission of JMSB is to form “socially responsible business people“. At JMSB we think that business schools have a critical role to play in education our students in the social and environmental realities of the business world. More specifically, students must realize that any business decision they make will affect various stakeholders within society, directly or indirectly.

Beyond making sure that students have the proper tools to diagnose and assess the social or environmental impact of business decisions, it is also necessary to provide them with the concept and mechanism that will ensure that, once adopted, social responsibility or environmental management strategies are properly implemented within the organization.

In order to achieve that, JMSB has been steadily building a critical mass of scholars who work in this domain: Clarence Bayne, Michel Magnan, Martin Martens, Charles Cho, Ray Paquin, Crawford Spence, Dean Sanjay Sharma and several others; this has allowed for the introduction of several new and essential courses.

The recent creation of the Centre for Sustainable Enterprise, housing the David O’Brien Distinguished Professorship in Sustainable Enterprise and the David O’Brien Distinguished Scholars in Sustainability, will further enhance our school's reputation as a leader in sustainable business education and will generate more scholars, research output and courses available to our students.

The redesigned John Molson MBA curriculum already incorporates Business Ethics as a core course and others that focus entirely on issues of CSR, ethics and environmental management: Corporate Governance, Sustainable Business Strategy, Corporate Social Reporting, Responsibility and Accountability, Social and Environmental Marketing, etc. Most of the core courses dedicate at least a quarter of their class time to these issues. The new MBA Community Service Initiative (MBA CSI) encourages and promotes community service and links MBA students with the needs of communities, organizations, small businesses, institutions and industries, while earning them credits within the MBA program.

Student initiatives like the John Molson Sustainable Business Group and the Sustainable Business yearly Conference are further proofs of the school’s and students’ attachment to the issues of business sustainability and ethics.

Moreover, our new building, scheduled to open its doors in the fall of 2009 will be LEED certified, the recognized benchmark for the design, construction and operation of high-performance green buildings and boasts the latest solar technology. It will be the first ever international demonstration of combined generation of heat and power using photovoltaic panels from Day4Energy and Solarwall© technology.

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