The Center for Leadership & Social Responsibility encourages students to engage with their community - using the power of business to create mutual benefit for all stakeholders, locally and globally.
Sustainability issues, from the personal to the global, are at the forefront of socially responsible business practice. We encourage active discussion about sustainability issues.
As consumer demand shifts, "how" we do business is gaining ground in order to meet expectations. Our graduates must be up to the challenge of a changing marketplace.
A new service-learning course has been developed in the Milgard School of Business to teach Nonprofit Governance to students who will "serve" in internships on the boards of local organizations. This is a two-course sequence starting with TMGMT 465, Nonprofit Governance I winter 2010 followed by TMGMT 466 Nonprofit Governance II in spring 2010.
During the first week of November, the Center sponsored its second annual Professionalism Week. Three lunch time workshops, each focused on a specific professional topic were offered. The finale of the week was the 7th Annual Etiquette Dinner held at the Hotel Murano on Thursday evening. The dinner was attended by over 100 students and guests, local business leaders and Milgard School of Business faculty and staff.
The Center for Leadership and Social Responsibility at the Milgard School of Business, University of Washington Tacoma is pleased to announce its first academic research conference. The conference aims to facilitate high quality, rigorous scholarship on a wide range of social responsibility issues.
The Milgard School of Business Center for Leadership and Social Responsibility is now accepting research papers for the July 15 - 16, 2010 Academic Conference on Social Responsibility. Theoretical and empirical papers are welcomed on a wide range of topics related to social practices of businesses. The deadline for submissions is January 31, 2010.
We all know the person. You are conducting a meeting and they are checking e-mail under the table, or their laptop plays that ubiquitous “Windows” chime as they boot up. Is it rude? What if everyone else is doing it? Isn’t it just a matter of organizational culture?
Take a look at the websites or annual reports of virtually any Fortune 500, global corporation and you will find some reference to their social agenda, their community engagement, strategic philanthropy,
Getty Images creates positive change in the world through imagery – their core business strength. Their support of the Center for Leadership & Social Responsibility through these images is a clear demonstration of strong commitment to improved practice of corporate citizenship – in a values-oriented, strengths-based way.
The Milgard School of Business Advisory Board has appointed a task force of members from the Board to advise on the direction of the Center's activities, in particular the activities related to engaging with the business community.
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We all know the person. You are conducting a meeting and they are checking e-mail under the table, or their laptop plays that ubiquitous “Windows” chime as they boot up. Is it rude? What if everyone else is doing it? Isn’t it just a matter of organizational culture? 
Take a look at the websites or annual reports of virtually any Fortune 500, global corporation and you will find some reference to their social agenda, their community engagement, strategic philanthropy,
Getty Images creates positive change in the world through imagery – their core business strength. Their support of the Center for Leadership & Social Responsibility through these images is a clear demonstration of strong commitment to improved practice of corporate citizenship – in a values-oriented, strengths-based way.
