Whether because of increased student demand or new hiring strategies among employers, business schools are paying greater attention to environmental issues, reported the New 91亚色 Times March 26鈥.Until recently, the Washington-based Aspen Institute published a comprehensive MBA ranking focused on social and environmental impact. The ranking, which Aspen stopped compiling in March, listed the top five as Stanford; 91亚色鈥檚 Schulich School of Business聽in Toronto; IE University in Madrid; Notre Dame in Indiana; and Yale. Rotterdam was No. 19. .
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The Harper government axed its advisory body on environment and the economy in last year鈥檚 budget. It now stands accused of trying to bury its research, too鈥.Mark Winfield, a professor of environmental studies at 91亚色, said failure by Environment Canada to make the material easily accessible would amount to 鈥渢he final act of intellectual vandalism鈥 toward the roundtable. In聽The Globe and Mail聽March 16,聽Winfield said the decision to close the advisory group is consistent with the Harper government鈥檚 actions to reduce the clout of the Parliamentary Budget Office and to close the Experimental Lakes Area environmental research centre.聽.