Partners and Sponsors

Corporate Partners and Sponsors

The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

The Sloan Foundation helped to create and has supported the Center's Corporate Governance and Accountability Project since 2003. The project aims to influence prevailing models of corporate governance and theories of the firm, as they are understood and taught by business school faculty.

Citigroup Foundation

Citigroup Foundation supports the Beyond Grey Pinstripes project of the Center for Business Education. Beyond Grey Pinstripes is a biennial survey and alternative ranking of business schools. The mission of Pinstripes is to spotlight innovative full-time MBA programs that are integrating issues of social and environmental stewardship into curricula and research.

ExxonMobil

ExxonMobil provides general support to the Center for Business Education for its work and research around the extractives and energy industry. The Center is working with ExxonMobil and Harvard Business School to author a case study that examines how Exxon has dealt with its social and environmental challenges. The Center is also planning to produce a Teaching Module around this case that can be used by MBA faculty in their classrooms.

FedEx

FedEx provides targeted support for an exploration of how future business leaders are prepared for the social and environmental impacts, and opportunities, inherent in issues of logistics, globalization, and transportation.

Ford Foundation

The Ford Foundation has provided generous support for the Aspen Institute Business and Society Program since its inception in January 1998. The Foundation has been instrumental in funding all of BSP's work and in launching the Center for Business Education in the fall of 2007.

Grant Thornton

Investment from Grant Thornton provides specific support to our China MBA Initiative , including our CasePlace.CN website.

GE

GE supports various elements of our Faculty Networks practice area, particularly our Teaching Innovation Program – a multi-year forum of academics and business leaders dedicated to the exchange of innovative ideas about MBA curricula.

Hitachi Foundation

The Hitachi Foundation has been supporting the Center for Business Education since 2003. The Foundation has been a key supporter of CasePlace.org , the Center's flagship web-based resource for case studies and other MBA teaching materials that focus on social and environmental issues in business.

Infosys

Infosys supports CBE's TIP: India Teaching Network, whose goal is to build a network of Indian business educators focused on bringing social and environmental issues into mainstream management education.

International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM)

ICMM provides targeted support for an exploration of how future business leaders are prepared for the social and environmental impacts, and opportunities, inherent in the global mining and metals industry.

JPMorgan Chase

JPMorgan Chase, in collaboration with the Aspen Institute Center for Business Education, has supported the Walter V. Shipley Business Leadership Case Competition . Launched in 2002, the Competition is named after Mr. Walter Shipley, who retired as Chairman of the Board of The Chase Manhattan Corporation and The Chase Manhattan Bank in December 1999, to honor his leadership and the importance that he placed on the social and ethical impacts of business management decisions.

The Competition is designed to be an enjoyable, meaningful exercise to raise awareness of the social and environmental impact of management among MBA students.

Levi Strauss & Co

Levi Strauss provides general support to the Center for Business Education for its work and research around HIV / AIDS and Supply Chains. The Center is examining how Levi Strauss has dealt with the issue of HIV / AIDS in its supply chains and working to create a variety of MBA resources, including a “ Closer Look” at HIV / AIDS in business school education and a Teaching Module on the topic.

Microsoft

Microsoft provides the Center with general programmatic support for a wide range of its programs.

Academic Partners

Laureate Education, Inc.

Aspen CBE is engaged with Laureate to examine how social and environmental issues might best be integrated into the future of online MBA education. Walden University , a subsidiary of Laureate, is the largest granter of online MBA's in the world and is working with the Center to consider how its MBA degree could better meet the needs of future MBA students.

The Applied Sustainability Center , Sam M. Walton College of Business, University of Arkansas (ASC)

ASC is working with Aspen CBE on the Sustainability Center Research Initiative, which aims to map the landscape of prominent academic centers and institutes doing substantive work in the broad realm of Sustainability. This research initiative aims to uncover various “best practices” at “sustainability centers” throughout the academic world and serve as a compendium of information on these centers.

Yale University School of Management

Yale is partnering with Aspen CBE to develop the Giving Voice to Values (GVV) curriculum initiative. GVV is an innovative research and curriculum development program that identifies the many ways that individuals can - and do - voice their values in the workplace, and provides opportunities to build the "muscles" - cognitive arguments, communication skills, personal comfort and commitment - necessary to do so.

Network Partners

Aspen CBE maintains close working relationships with the following organizations, including the co-sponsorship of various projects and programs.

Business for Social Responsibility

Ashoka

Net Impact

Research Network for Business Sustainability

Social Science Research Network

UN Principles for Responsible Management Education