Toronto - Turning good business practices into profitable and sustainable futures is at the heart of the fourth annual Rotman MBA Business and Society Conference to be held on March 24 at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto.

The day long conference features presentations and discussions by senior business leaders and researchers on how to develop and implement business strategies that integrate corporate citizenship and recognizes both social and financial returns. The conference is sponsored by Monitor Group and the AIC Institute for Corporate Citizenship at the Rotman School.

Speakers and topics include:

• "Investors' Growing Interest in Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance Issues" -- Jane Ambachtsheer, Global Head, Socially Responsible Investing, Mercer Investment Consulting;

• "A Disclosure Index for the Environmental Performance of Companies" --
Gordon Richardson, KPMG Professor of Accounting, Rotman School of Management;

• "Good Health is Good for Business: How Sustainability is Part of Purolator's Strategy" -- Stephen Gould, Senior Vice President - Human Resources, Purolator Canada;

• "Embedding Sustainability in the Business - Experience and Outcomes To-Date at Alcan" -- Ronald Neilsen, Director - Sustainability and Strategic Partnerships, Alcan;

• "Building Sustainability into Corporate Strategy" -- William Murphy, National Partner, Advisory Services, and advisor to the Global Sustainability Service Group, KPMG Consulting; and,

• "Ericsson's Corporate Citizenship Strategy - Global and Local" -- Mark Henderson, President, Ericsson Canada.

Complete conference details, including registration, are available online at:
www.businessandsociety.ca.

Member of the media should contact Ken McGuffin for further details at:
mcguffin@rotman.utoronto.ca.

The University of Toronto's Joseph L. Rotman School of Management has set out to become one of the world's top tier business schools. Located in North America's 3rd largest financial centre, the Rotman School is taking an innovative approach to management education, built around Integrative Thinking™ and Business Design™. For more information and to find out why the Financial Times and BusinessWeek rank Rotman among the leading business schools internationally, visit www.rotman.utoronto.ca. Integrative Thinking and Business Design are registered trademarks of the Rotman School of Management.

Rotman School of Management - University of Toronto

Rotman School of Management - University of Toronto

The University of Toronto's Joseph L. Rotman School of Management has set out to become one of the world's top tier business schools. Located in North America's 3rd largest financial centre, the Rotman School is taking an innovative approach to management education, built around Integrative Thinking™ and Business Design™. The AIC Institute for Corporate Citizenship was created at the Rotman School in late 2004 with the generous support of AIC Limited's Chairman Michael Lee-Chin. The purpose of the Institute is to help current and future business leaders integrate corporate citizenship into business strategy and practices.

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