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Hennick Centre for Business and Law

CBERN and Hennick Centre for Business and Law host talk on corporate social responsibility and human rights

What are the distinctions between corporate social responsibility, business responsibility and philanthropy, and how can a framework be devised to help businesses define their role in human rights accountability? These are just some the questions that will be tackled today in a lecture by Professor Tom Campbell, director of Australia’s Centre for Applied Philosophy & Public […]

Report recommends how best to regulate corporate social reporting

York University’s Jay & Barbara Hennick Centre for Business & Law and Jantzi-Sustainalytics have submitted recommendations to the provincial minister of finance on how the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) can begin to improve corporations’ disclosure of their social practices. The report was released at a press conference on Tuesday morning. It is available to the public on […]

Universities need sustainable approach to strengthening external research partnerships

Stan Shapson, York University’s vice-president research & innovation, recently gave a talk at a conference hosted by IP Osgoode and the Hennick Centre for Business and Law on developing strong public/private sector collaborations to create innovation. With the challenge of a changing external context for research in Canada — both a shifting economic and social […]

York research team picks up inaugural grant from the Hennick Centre

York’s Hennick Centre for Business & Law has given its inaugural Collaborative Research Grants Program award to an interdisciplinary team of professors studying transnational business grievance. The $5,000 research grant was awarded to Professors Burkard Eberlein and Alan Richardson of the Schulich School of Business and Professor Stepan Wood of Osgoode Hall Law School for their proposal, […]