The Monroe Street Journal

Issue date: 3/18/08 Section: News

Media Credit: Li Sun [Click to enlarge]

The idea of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has been a well-known subject taught at the Ross School of Business. Aside from learning CSR in class, Ross students have the opportunity to actively attend speaker series sponsored by organizations such as the Erb Institute throughout the year. This past Wednesday, many business students gathered together to hear about the subject of Corporate Social Responsibly and the role that corporations play on Environmental Sustainability from an internationally known expert named Andy Savitz. The event was exclusively sponsored by the Erb Institute of Global Sustainable Enterprise and Net Impact Graduate and Undergraduate Chapters.

Andy Savitz is a creative business leader, advisor, author, and speaker, with over 20 years of experience in helping corporations to become leaders in environmental sustainability. Graduating Phi Beta Kappa from Johns Hopkins University, Mr. Savitzs went on to attend Oxford University as a Rhode Scholar and earned a degree in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics. Afterwards, Mr. Savitz came back to the States to attend Georgetown University Law School. During that time, Mr. Savitz was a staff member for the United States House of Representatives and the Commerce, Consumer, and Monetary Affairs subcommittee.

Professionally, Mr. Savitz first served as General Counsel in the Massachusetts Office of Environmental Affairs, where he directed all legal matters for the Commonwealth related to environmental affairs, environmental law, regulation, and policy. Mr. Savitz was instrumental on improving the environmental enforcement of criminal and civil law throughout the state of Massachusetts. Then, Mr. Savitz joined PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PwC) to create his own environmental advisory practice where he eventually became a partner in charge of PwC's Environmental Enforcement and Compliance Management services.

Currently Mr. Savitz works as a senior consultant at Sustainable Business Strategies, where he assists companies to assess, design, develop, and implement sustainable programs. In addition to his work experience, Mr. Savitz has authored two books: The Triple Bottom Line: How the Best Run Companies are Achieving Economic, and Social and Environmental Success - and How You Can Too.

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