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Are Business Schools to Blame for the Financial Crisis?

The director of a leading graduate education program in responsible business thinks the key to corporate responsibility is integration of sustainable thinking and action into day-to-day business as well as students’ coursework – but achieving that “represents a fundamental shift in the way companies are run and what students are taught.”

Shareholder Advocates Urge Disclosure of Political Spending

The Center for Political Accountability, the Council of Institutional Investors and a number of shareholder advocate groups have launched a letter-writing campaign urging companies in the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index to disclose all political contributions they make with corporate funds.

Climate Change: Will Carbon Tax Unite ExxonMobil and Its Critics?

The only hope for a new carbon-cutting law from the U.S. Congress in 2010 could involve what has long been thought of as the least politically viable approach: a tax on carbon. But achieving that might very well require an alliance of strange bedfellows – including environmental advocates and ExxonMobil, long a chief climate change skeptic.

Senator Questions 30 Companies on Human Rights in China

U.S. Senator Dick Durbin this week sent letters to 30 information and communications technology companies – including Apple, Facebook, Skype and Twitter – seeking information about their human rights practices in China. Durbin also announced plans to hold a follow-up hearing on global internet freedom next month.

Opinion:Chamber of Commerce Is Wrong on Climate Change

The CEO of a leading socially responsible investment firm thinks it’s curious that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which ostensibly represents the business community, “has not only chosen to oppose climate change solutions but continues to advance the specious argument that we face a stark choice between the environment and the economy – that addressing climate change will somehow be bad for business and cost us jobs. The opposite is the case.”