Peace and reconciliation continue to be among the most pressing world issues in need of private sector attention. David L. Cooperrider, Ph.D., founder of the Center for Business as an Agent of World Benefit (B·A·W·B), discusses the exciting strides business is taking in becoming a force for peace in the world. Read about Stef Wertheimer's Tefen Project, Bobby Sager's microfinancing in Rwanda, and Jeffrey Sach's Millennium Villages project.

The Center for B·A·W·B continues to highlight businesses pursuing sustainability efforts within their core business strategy and values. For Forest City Enterprises the embracing of sustainability was not born of an epiphany so much as it was an organic, natural development – a new leg in the journey of this 80-year-old, $9 billion, publicly traded real estate development and management company. Jon Ratner, vice president of sustainability, talks about the beginning of what he believes will be a long, productive journey as the company builds a sustainble business model.

In July 2007, over 1,000 people from corporations, nonprofit organizations and governments came together in Geneva, Switzerland for the United Nations Leaders Summit, convened by the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC), to discuss how they could work together to solve some of the world's toughest problems. Among the attendees was Ante Glavas, executive director of the Center for Business as an Agent of World Benefit (B·A·W·B), who speaks about the significance of the event.

The real power of sustainability and triple bottom-line thinking is that it inspires innovation in design, and many of the leaders who are putting this power to work agree that biomimicry is the leading edge of design and Janine Benyus is its inspiring force. Entrepreneurs for Sustainability (E4S), Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland Natural History Museum, Case Western Reserve University and others are collaborating to plant the design strategies of biomimicry in our region. The first in the series of events is the live talk by Janine Benyus, from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m., Tuesday, September 25, 2007, at the Cleveland Institute of Art.

The emergence of the United Nations Global Compact Principles for Responsible Management Education mark the new era for business schools worldwide. Now that the dust of excitement and accomplishment around the principles has settled, the question emerges loud and clear: What are business schools to do with it? Nadya Zhexembayeva, associate director of the Center for B·A·W·B, shares a story of Slovenian IEDC-Bled School of Management, which stands as a refreshingly unlikely example of deep changes in the philosophy and practice of management education.

In the last two years, Case Western Reserve University has been building a program of sustainability that leverages existing energy and operational strengths with new programs developed to engage our broad groups of stakeholders. Linda Robson, CFAO Fellow for Energy Studies at Case Western Reserve University, discusses the many programs that build deep connections within the university, and externally in Greater Cleveland and Northeast Ohio with a goal of creating a vibrant campus and robust region.

The Weatherhead School of Management pulled ahead of dozens of other competitors to take second place in the Net Impact Green Challenge 2007. Net Impact, the largest MBA student club in the nation, announced the winners on August 1, 2007. Net Impact's Campus Greening Initiative (CGI) is a new program to help Net Impact student members put their beliefs into action through campus environmental sustainability efforts.

The 2007-08 academic year offers a number of executive education programs dedicated to positive change and sustainable value. Among them are: Igniting Positive Change through Appreciative Inquiry, Foundations and Frontiers in Appreciative Inquiry, and Sustainability for Value and Profit.