Center for Business Research and Development - Bridging faith and scholarship; influencing policy and practice

1. (Presented during the Research Directors’ Forum,
January 24, 2014, Henry Sy Sr. Hall, 3rd Floor)
Raymund B. Habaradas, DBA
Director, Center for Business Research and Development
Ramon V. del Rosario College of Business
De La Salle University

2. DLSU‟s mission
 “To be a leading learner-centered

research university, bridging faith
and scholarship in the service of
society, especially the poor”

3. Research@DLSU

 The University
actively engages
in research that
secure positive,
meaningful,
lasting, and
inclusive growth
in society and
contribute to
nation-building
by seeking to:
Alleviate poverty
Promote peace and
social justice

4. Research@DLSU

 The University
actively engages
in research that
secure
positive, meanin
gful, lasting, and
inclusive growth
in society and
contribute to
nation-building
by seeking to:
Protect the welfare
of women, youth at
risk, and other
vulnerable sectors
of society
Create wealth and
resources to bridge
the various societal
divides

5. Research@DLSU

 The University
actively engages
in research that
secure
positive, meanin
gful, lasting, and
inclusive growth
in society and
contribute to
nation-building
by seeking to:
Provide models and
avenues for
stewardship of
God‟s creation
Influence
policy, governance,
and the
management of
institutions

6. Human person at the core


7. Challenge:

Ensure both
rigor and
relevance

8. Research@RVRCOB

 As a signatory of the Principles of Responsible
Management Education (PRME), RVR COB has
committed to promote the said principles.
 These principles encourage us, among others, to “engage
in conceptual and empirical research that advances our
understanding about the role, dynamics, and impact of
corporations in the creation of sustainable
social, environmental and economic value”, and to
“facilitate and support dialogue and debate” among
different stakeholders “on critical issues related to global
social responsibility and sustainability”

9. Center for Business Research
and Development

 CBRD is the research and
advocacy arm of RVRCOB
 Goal: Encourage RVRCOB
faculty members to engage in
research that will advance
knowledge and influence policy
and practice
 Slogan: “Bridging faith and
scholarship; Influencing policy
and practice”

10. Our research priorities

Disciplines
Thrusts
Accountancy
Social and environmental accounting
Commercial law
Consumer protection
Industrial relations
Entrepreneurship
Family business management
Social entrepreneurship
Finance
Microfinance
Socially responsible investing
Management
Corporate governance
Corporate social responsibility
Humanistic management
Marketing
Ethical advertising
Social marketing

11. „Business
for the 
common
good‟

12. Providing a supportive
ecology for research

Center for Business Research and Development (CBRD)
in cooperation with Vice Dean for Research and Graduate Studies
and various academic departments
Goal 1: Create new knowledge
Organize
capability
building
activities
Set up
structures for
collaborative
research
Establish a
database of
faculty
research
Provide seed
funding for
research in
priority areas
Goal 2: Influence policy and practice
Help faculty
publish their
research
outputs
Organize
research
conferences
with partners
Organize
forums for
engaging
stakeholders
Prepare
proposals for
external
funding
Establish
partnerships
w/
industry, gov’t
& NGOs
Raising the
visibility and
public profile
CBRD

13. Capability-building activities

Doing action research in your own
organization, July 12, 2013, Ariston Estrada
Seminar Room

14. Capability-building activities

Research and advocacy – the RVR COB way,
July 26, 2013, 4th Floor, Henry Sy Sr. Hall

15. Capability-building activities

So you want to go to the Academy? by Dr. Roberto
Galang, December 5, 2013, Conference Room B3

16. Research conferences

1st National Business and Management
Conference, August 30-31, University of San
Carlos, Cebu City

17. Research conferences

PRME Asia Research Conference, November
13, 2013, Ateneo Professional Schools, Makati City

18. Research conferences

PRME Asia Research Conference, November 13,
2013, Ateneo Professional Schools, Makati City

19. CBRD Lecture 1

Developing the scholar-practitioner by Dr. David
Coghlan, July 23, 2013, Waldo Perfecto Seminar Room

20. CBRD Lecture 2

Quick-but-clean survey research by Dr. Ned
Roberto, October 24, 2013, Yuchengco 407-409

21. CBRD Lecture 3

Enron and lessons learned by Andrew Fastow,
November 16, 4th Floor, Henry Sy Sr. Hall

22. CBRD Lecture 3

Enron and lessons learned by Andrew
Fastow, November 16, 4th Floor, Henry Sy Sr.
Hall

23. Internal publications
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24. Internal publications
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25. Internal publications
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26. Ongoing book projects
 RVR COB Compendium

 Collection of 12 articles on ethics, corporate social
responsibility, sustainability, and corporate governance
 Co-editors: Raymund Habaradas and Denver Daradar
 View from Taft
 Compilation of 72 articles selected from those published in
View from Taft column of Business World over the past 5 years
 Editor: Marissa Marasigan
 Critical essays on management
 Collection of at least 20 articles to be written by full-time and
part-time faculty members of the Management and
Organization Department, after a series of lectures, open peerreview and writeshops
 Co-editors: Liberty Nolasco and Raymund Habaradas

27. Preparing project proposals


28. Externally-funded projects

Title of project
Women entrepreneurship
in the digital age: The
Philippine experience
Funding agency
Foundation for Women’s
Rights Promotion and
Development through the
Women’s Business Council
Philippines
Vision 20/20: Road map
Philippine Center for Print
for the printing industry in Excellence Foundation
the Philippines
(PCPEF)

29. Networks and partnerships
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30. Research Advisory Board

Dr. Eduardo
Roberto
Dr. Jose Ramon
Albert
Dr. Elfren Cruz
Dr. Raymond
Girard Tan

31. CBRD Collaterals
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32. CBRD Collaterals
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33. CBRD Facebook site
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34. Research activities & actors
Utilize internal
research funding
Strengthen
research capability
Generate external
research funding
CBRD and VDRAGS

Conduct relevant and
rigorous research along
research thrusts
• Individual research
• In collaboration with
other departments
and colleges
(interdisciplinary)
• In collaboration with
graduate students
(co-authorship)
RVRCOB faculty and
graduate students
Disseminate research
output (publication)
• DLSU B&E Review
• DLSU Business Notes
and Briefings
• CBRD Working Papers
• Newspaper columns
• Books
Disseminate research
output (public forums)
• Research conferences
• CBRD Lectures
• Roundtable
discussions with
policymakers and key
stakeholders
CRBR, VD-RAGS, and
RVRCOB faculty

35. 
Bridging Influencing
faith and
policy and
scholarship
practice

36. (Presented during the Research Directors’ Forum,
January 24, 2014, Henry Sy Sr. Hall, 3rd Floor)
Raymund B. Habaradas, DBA
Director, Center for Business Research and Development
Ramon V. del Rosario College of Business
De La Salle University