Center for Business & Society

Overview

The Center for Business & Society supports the study and research of topics that fall at the intersection of business and society.

The center hosts the development of new cases for the classroom, funds faculty research, promotes student independent study, and brings executives together in peer learning forums. The Center’s work is disseminated in reports and publications, at industry conferences nationally and internationally, and as case studies.

Tuck faculty conduct research that applies business knowledge and theory to social needs and environmental challenges both locally and globally including corporate environmental practices, climate change issues, questions of corporate citizenship, social entrepreneurship, affordable housing, public /private partnerships, and ethical dilemmas that focus on the complex choices between business interests and societal needs.

Explore faculty, research, courses, cases and conferences by the following topics:
Environmental Sustainability
Social Impact
Ethics

Topics: Learn more about our work

1. Social Impact
2. Punam Anand Keller
  
  Read the profile of Professor Punam Anand Keller, Charles Henry Jones Third Century Professor of Management, . who teaches the elective Social Marketing which examines marketing principles and research methods applied to social causes.
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1. Environmental Sustainability
2. Renewable Energies
  
  Watch video of Diego Belmonte, President of Esound Energy, as he discusses bringing renewable energies into emerging markets.
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1. Ethics
2. Rick Shreve
  
  Read the profile of Rick Shreve, Associate Faculty Director for Business Ethics.
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1. Social Impact
2. Business & Society Conference 2012
  
  Watch the 2012 Business & Society Conference Video.
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1. Environmental Sustainability
2. Simon Pearce
  
  Read about the Simon Pearce Carbon Footprint and Clean Energy case.
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1. Ethics
2. Ethics in Action
  
  Learn about the course Ethics in Action.
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1. Environmental Sustainability
2. Anant Sundaram
  
  Read the profile of Anant Sundaram, Visiting Professor of Business Administration, who teaches the elective Business and Climate Change.
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1. Social Impact
2. Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector
  
  Learn about the course Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector taught by John Vogel.
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1. Environmental Sustainability
2. Business Strategies for Sustainability
  
  Learn about the course Business Strategies for Sustainability.
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1. Social Impact
2. Grassroot Soccer
  
  Read about the Grassroot Soccer Case.
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1. Ethics
2. Business & Ethics
  
  Learn about the course Business & Ethics at the Base of the Pyramid.
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