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Want a CSR Job? Read This First

By Ashley Parsons Jablow on July 16, 2010 2 Comments @ashleyjablow, Ashley Jablow, Boston University, brand audits, campus recruiting, corporate responsibility training, corporate social responsibility, CSR, CT, Danbury, Ellen Weinreb, functional experience, Job Postings, marketing research plans, mba, Praxair, social media tactics, socially responsible MBA, stakeholder communications strategies, stakeholder engagement plan, supply chain, sustainability positions, Sustainability Recruiting, sustainability reporting, The Changebase

While companies are increasingly partnering with business schools to create CSR projects for MBA students seeking to get real-world education and training to prepare them for the workforce, many find no opportunity to continue this work once they finish business school. Even though there has been a steady increase over time in VP and Director-level CSR jobs, that is not the case for social responsibility MBA grads. If you want to work in CSR, get functional experience first.

Who Tops Newsweek’s First Annual Green Rankings?

By Tracey de Morsella on September 21, 2009 1 Comment Agilent, Allegheny Energy, Ameren, American Electric Power, Applied Materials, Baxter, Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, Bunge, Business Ethics Magazine, Carbon Disclosure Project, Climate Center, Climate Change, Climate Counts, Coca-Cola, ConAgra Foods, Conference Board, Consol Energy, corporate social responsibility officers, CorporateRegister.com, CSR, Dan Esty, David Vidal, Dell, EIS, emissions, energy, environmental footprin, environmental footprint, Environmental groups, ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT SCORE, environmental impacts, environmental policies, FirstEnergy, GHGs, GREEN POLICIES SCORE, GREEN SCORE, greenbiz, greenest companies in America, greenhouse gas emissions, greenhouse gases, Hewlett-Packard, Hewlett-Packard Company, IBM, Intel Corporation, ITT, Joel Makower, John Steelman, Johnson & Johnson, KLD, KLD Research and Analytics, Kohl's, Marathon Oil, Marjorie Kelly, National Resource Defense Council, natural resources, Newsweek, Newsweek Green Rankings, NIKE, NRG Energy, Peabody Energy, PG&E, Praxair, regulatory compliance, REPUTATION SCORE, Southern, Starbucks, State Street, State Street Corporation, Tellus Institute, toxic waste emissions, Trucost, United Technologies, utility, Wells Fargo, Yale University, Z-scores

Today, Newsweek launched a ranking of the greenest companies in America in its current issue and Hewlett-Packard took top honors. The Newsweek Green Rankings is the first-ever report based on companies’ actual environmental footprint, policies and practices. The twelve-page report in the September 28 issue, features a green ranking of America’s 500 largest publicly-traded companies as measured by revenue, market capitalization and number of employees. On Newsweek.com, users can search and sort the data in several ways, analyze the detailed methodology of the study and submit and review comments.