Official Opening of Laurier's New CMA Centre for Responsible Organizations

TORONTO, May 17 /CNW/ -

Subject: Media invited to official opening of CMA Centre for Responsible Organizations at Wilfrid Laurier University, established to mould new generation of business leaders

Why: The Centre is the first multi-disciplinary initiative at a Canadian university dedicated to the advancement of research and knowledge devoted to the development of responsible organizations.

Who: The Certified Management Accountants of Ontario (CMA Ontario) and the School of Business & Economics at Wilfrid Laurier University are pleased to announce the Centre's official opening.

What: The Centre aims to be Canada's leader in theoretical and applied research on responsible organizations in areas such as:
i)   innovation and design of responsible business models, products and operating procedures;
ii)  development of performance measurement and evaluation metrics;
iii) community building, by which organizations pursue core objectives while still enhancing societal goals; and,
iv)  foster development of social entrepreneurship.

Building on the strength of established business programs, Laurier's new CMA Centre for Responsible Organizations will further the world-class expertise of southern Ontario's educational institutions.

Where: Ante Room, 3rd Floor of the Schlegel Centre, School of Business & Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University, 75 University Avenue West, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3C5

When: Wine & Cheese Reception, 5:00 to 6:30 p.m., Wednesday, May 24,2006

For further information: about the new CMA Centre for Responsible
Organizations, contact: Sharon Armstrong, CMA Ontario, Direct: (416) 204-3118,
sarmstrong@cma-ontario.org or Rick Hall, RICK HALL PR, Direct:
(416) 967-0751, rickhall@rickhallpr.com; For Wilfrid Laurier University:
Tony Frost, Direct: (519) 884-0710 x2110, tfrost@wlu.ca

This announcement first appeared in http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/May2006/17/c6967.html.