Once again WELL will be hosting a case competition around the theme of corporate social responsibility at Copenhagen Business School. The event will take place between 16 and 20 April, 2007 and the competing teams will consist of students from the best European business schools and this year's special guests from China.

What is up and what is down in the climate debate? And what can we do to reduce climate change? WELL invited everybody to join the debate on December 4th.

WELL is looking for energetic students to take up the challenge of planning and driving the case competition WELLcontest 2007 on a voluntary basis.

WELL represented Copenhagen Business School at an important CSR conference in Shanghai. The knowledge and skills gathered by being actively involved in WELL proved useful for the participating members when discussing and sharing ideas and perspectives on CSR in a Chinese context.

One week of hard work reached its climax on Friday 28 April when this year's WELLcontest winner was picked out. The team from CBS came first in the exciting final with participants from Finland, Denmark and Sweden.

What are the challenges for Shell’s corporate social responsibility? The oil extracting company is revealed as case company in the WELLcontest 06, where 28 students from Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden are competing to solve an ethical problem in a CSR perspective.

WELL is hosting WELLcontest '06, a Nordic case competition where business students have 48 hours to come up with their solution to a real-life ethical dilemma facing one of the world's largest companies.

What are the results of the first national CSR survey among academic students? On Tuesday 28 February you will have the opportunity along with our panel of experts to witness the CSR survey launch organised by the financial newspaper Børsen and WELL.

WELL has engaged in a partnership with professor Suzanne C. Beckman from Copenhagen Business School, the Danish financial newspaper Børsen, and Greens Analysis in conducting a study on Danish students' knowledge about and perception of CSR.

On December 8, 2005, WELL and Transparency International Denmark hosted a successful conference on corruption.

Understanding of corruption is essentially about ethics. Corruption concerns the fundamental question on how to act in a given situation. That is why it is a matter of ethics.

Edward Freeman's session with WELL members and guests on 24 October 2005 at CBS was a tremendous success. Students had the opportunity to hear about the origins of stakeholder management and stakeholder theory from the 'creator' himself.

Is journalism subject to the strict ethical and societal awareness which the media's power and function requires?

Though Denmark is in a good position in the CPI Index as the fourth least corrupted country, it might look worse next year.

Grundfos' chairman Niels Due Jensen has always been in the front seat when it comes to acting socially responsible. But how does he as a leader make sure, his employees live up to such moral standards? Niels Due Jensen speaks at a WELLseminar in Aarhus on the 13th of October.

Over the past years WELL has hosted several CSR related events in cooperation with a great number of institutions and organisations. Due to our events we have come in contact with many students whose genuine interest and earnest scepticism we believe generate important input to the debate of the role of business in society. And input is still very much welcome!

At a ceremony at Copenhagen Business School, Mads Øvlisen, Chairman of the board of Novo Nordisk, awarded Christian Møller-Holst and Karim Buus Drif from WELL the Novo Nordisk CSR Prize.

Following a series of large-scale corporate scandals the educational institutions ought to integrate the new 'Corporate Reality' into the education, the curricula, and thus into the outdated economic rational by which most courses at business schools around the world are still taught by. Should these institutions choose not do so, the future business leaders will find themselves not fully equipped to tackle the challenging demands that are being thrown at them.

Who is accountable for the problems in our society? What influential stakeholders should we look towards when trying to place responsibility? Most of us would name our government, the business world and the individual. Depending on the issue in focus, society allocates responsibility to one of these stakeholders.

How can companies like McDonald's that produce controversial products behave responsibly? How should one look at the criteria for social responsibility in that context? After all a Big Mac will always be a Big Mac no matter how you change the corporate strategy.

How can stakeholders help a company move down the Corporate Social Responsibility learning curve?

The story of two students from Aarhus School of Business - how they through one of WELL's activities (WELLcontest) “stumbled upon Corporate Social Responsibility”, and turned it into the scope of their future career.