Abstract

CSR has become an area of focus for many companies and business leaders. Few can argue that pursuing business practices that have economic, environmental, and social benefits is not worthwhile. Certainly in the recent aftermath of such publically visible ethical failures as Enron, Lehman Brothers, and BP, many involved in graduate business education have called for the inclusion of CSR principles into their programs’ curriculum. This paper explores the need for CSR to be incorporated into graduate business curriculum and looks at how several schools are doing just that. The paper includes a discussion of future research topics and concludes that graduate business programs must increase efforts to include CSR, sustainability, and ethics across the curriculum in order for students to be truly prepared for the demands of the new business world.

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