UW Tacoma Milgard School of Business Center for Leadership and Social Responsibility Hosts 2nd Annual Conference – Corporate Social Responsibility: Driving Innovation

Speakers and attendees from top local and national companies come together to discuss how business with social purpose influences innovation

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, business and thought leaders from across the region will be gathering at the Meydenbauer Center in Bellevue, Wash. for a conference hosted by the UW Tacoma Milgard School of Business Center for Leadership and Social Responsibility to discuss corporate social responsibility (CSR) and how it impacts and influences business strategy and innovation.

The day-long conference titled “CSR: Driving Innovation” will cover multiple topics including how CSR drives strategy and innovation, emerging trends in CSR and sustainability and how sustainability initiatives impact financial performance in the short and long term. Conference speakers and moderators include those from top local and national businesses including:

• Subaru of Indiana
• Starbucks
• Theo Chocolates
• Timberland
• Hydrovolts
• Coinstar
• Moss Adams
• Costco
• Microsoft
• Global Edge Solutions
• Ideo
• B Lab
• UBS
• Seattle Mariners
• Rainmakers.tv

The sessions led by industry thought leaders will examine how CSR and sustainability factor into business’s ability to be innovative in solving complex issues and will provide attendees with tools applicable to companies across multiple sectors.

For more information and a full conference schedule, please visit www.tacoma.uw.edu/clsr or call [phone] for more information.

ABOUT UW TACOMA MILGARD SCHOOL OF BUSINESS CENTER FOR LEADERSHIP AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

Since June 2003 the Milgard family of Tacoma, founders of Milgard Manufacturing, have made gifts totaling $20 million to the University of Washington Tacoma to foster excellence in the Milgard School of Business. A portion of those gifts has been designated to establish the Center for Leadership & Social Responsibility. The Milgards’ strong belief in the link between business leadership and socially responsible and ethical practice led them to fund the Center. They had a vision of fostering grounded and ethical business leadership in students throughout the UW Tacoma campus and in the corporate culture of the business community.