The Center for Ethical and Sustainable Business (CESB)
The Center for Ethical and Sustainable Business (CESB) was launched in 2011, with founding faculty members seeking to integrate ethics, corporate social responsibility, and environmental sustainability beyond the classroom for undergraduate and graduate business students, faculty, and the Bay Area business community.
The mission of the Center for Ethical and Sustainable Business (CESB) is to be the Bay Area epicenter for integrating ethical, environmental, and social sustainability business practices through engagement between San Francisco State University’s Lam Family College of Business students and Bay Area businesses.
The University’s longstanding commitment to educating students about equity and social justice aligns CESB’s vision with its goal of honing best practices in business integrity, social impact, and environmental sustainability through business leader presence on campus, business funding support for students’ CESB vision-related projects, and developing CESB learning and research communities for students and faculty.
The Lam Family College of Business MBA program was ranked among the top 10 Best Green MBA programs in 2021. This ranking is based on MBA students’ assessments of how well we prepare them to address environmental, sustainability, and social responsibility issues in their careers.
The Center offers three graduate certificates:
- Sustainable Business
- Ethical Artificial Intelligence
- Ethics & Compliance
Satisfies cy pres requirements for the following types of cases:
- Defective products
- Consumer fraud
- Unfair business practices
- False advertising
- Deceptive advertising
- Bait and switch marketing
- Insurance, mortgage, billing, bank fraud
- Breach of contract
- Financial reporting
- Telemarketing fraud
- Breach of data privacy
- Ponzi scheme
- Defective cars
- Prize promotion fraud