About
The Center for Business Excellence (CBE) is an organization devoted to transforming the relationship between business and the community, by recognizing and supporting the practices and principles of business excellence through analysis, education, and effective demonstration. These principles are currently embodied for many people in the ideas of sustainable development, social responsibility, spirit in the workplace, and the triple bottom line (people, profits, and the planet).
The Center brings together senior business, government, educational and community leaders to address these issues in a way that is practical, timely, and designed to produce effective change; it offers them a platform for communicating values, objectives, strategies, and initiatives and gaining the support of the community in fostering greater awareness, confidence, and support for business. It works to serve the community by ensuring that our businesses are the best they can be.
Based in Central New Jersey, the Center also promotes strategic initiatives that create visibility, transparency, and sustainable economic growth, both locally and in the wider regional economy.
The Center for Business Excellence was founded to sustain a dialog in New Jersey that engages business and civic leaders to advance community and public interests while benefiting business success. The Center believes in and stands for the essential role that business plays in shaping our society for the benefit of all citizens, and seeks to bring together change leaders to support true win-win initiatives that go beyond philanthropy to align the interests of businesses and the community for mutual benefit.
The center was founded in 2002, in the wake of events that seemed to call for business executives as well as many other people to re-evaluate the meaning and purpose of their activities. During the past five years the world has seen an expansion of conflict, a significant financial depression, and an alarming acceleration in global warming, with increasingly devastating natural and manmade disasters.
The Chinese word for “crisis,” however, conveys not only the sense of disaster but also that of opportunity, and the increasingly urgent needs of our planet offer unparalleled opportunities for innovation in technology and in business. The Center is being renewed in order to contribute to addressing and supporting these opportunities.
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