Identifying Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Curricula of Leading U.S. Executive MBA Programs

Abstract

Our society has witnessed large enterprises collapse from a disregard for Corporate Social Responsibilities (CSR) and illegal and unethical comportments. This chapter provides an understanding of the basic concepts of CSR in the context of lawful and ethical responsibilities, while recognizing the power of CSR branding. Moreover, in accordance with the theory that higher education can elevate the importance of CSR strategies, it reports the results from a qualitative content analysis study identifying explicit and implicit inclusions of CSR, law, and ethics in course titles and descriptions from 20 leading Executive Master of Business Administration (MBA) programs at institutions of higher education in the United States. The results report that while law and ethics are commonly part of the reviewed Executive MBA programs, CSR has minimal representation in these programs.

Are Innovation and Internationalization Intertwined? A Quantitative Study of the Impact of the Types of Programs in Elite Business Schools

“…For the Global MBA and Executive MBA rankings, the Innovation construct was built with the data from the Financial Times Research rank because of its source of new knowledge, and Financial Times Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) rank because of its important topic in the third phase of the evolutionary process of business schools and a differentiating topic among business schools, according to Lilley, Barker, & Harris (2014), Schlegelmilch & Thomas (2011), Mayes, Bracey, Aguilar & Allen (2015, and Christensen, Peirce, Hartman, Hoffman & Carrier (2007). On the other hand, the Internationalization construct was built taking into consideration the FT's data about the percentage of International faculty, percentage of international students, percentage of international board members, international mobility rank, and International course experience rank.…”