Posts Tagged ‘sustainability’
Responsible Leadership Reimagined: A call for papers
South Africa has played an important role in driving the topic with the first International Conference on Responsible Leadership being held in 2010 at the University of Pretoria in Johannesburg. Nine years later, the Academy of Management held a specialised conference on Responsible Leadership in Bled, Slovenia. The Responsible Leadership Reimagined Conference (16 – 18…
Read More7th International Conference on New Business Models
The New Business Model (NBM) Conference Series is pleased to invite you to the 7th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NEW BUSINESS MODELS held at the LUMSA University of Rome on 23 and 24 June 2022. Prior to the conference, on 22 June, there will be a Doctoral Colloquium for applicants who wish to share research. Title of the conference: “SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS MODELS CHALLENGES: ECONOMIC…
Read MoreFrom narrative to action: Are business schools walking the talk of responsible management education?
ESCP Business School‘s Francesca Pucciarelli and Andreas Kaplan tell Stephanie Mullins from BlueSky Education about the opportunity that business schools have to develop students’ capabilities to be future generators of sustainable value for business and society. Here are their thoughts: Today’s business world, even more than the pre-pandemic one, needs leaders capable of making a strong social…
Read MoreSustainable business applied to agriculture aviation
EFMD has been delighted to support the Center for Industrial Productivity and Sustainability and the Product-Life Institute since 2007. For more information about this project, visit our website. This week, EFMD Global and Ecole des Ponts Business School Circular Economy Research Center (CERC) are in Texas testing the abilities (specifically, aerial-imaging, flight characteristics and fuselage vibrations)…
Read MoreThe responsibility turn: building responsible doctoral programmes for a responsible future
Eva Cools, DBA Manager & Research Manager of Vlerick Business School and co-chair of the 2021 EFMD Doctoral Programmes Conference (DPC), shares her reflections from the conference. Recently I had the honour to co-chair the 2021 EFMD Doctoral Programmes Conference (DPC), together with Christine Unterhitzenberger from the University of Leeds. Although we already chose the…
Read MoreSocietal and Sustainable: The 21st Century University
The societal aspects of education provide some of its main benefits, its purpose being to contribute to society’s welfare. Universities should accordingly produce responsible and accountable leaders in their respective domains through education. However, higher education’s quest for revenue and reputation has led universities to sideline or even neglect this stated societal purpose. While it…
Read MoreProgressing on Sustainability within your Institution: Leading Transformation Part One
EFMD Professional Development offers a ten-day-long programme focusing on two aspects of business school transformation essentials: digitalisation and sustainability With all that requires our attention these days, sustainability may not seem like such an urgent matter in comparison. The topic of sustainability has been present in the management education scene for quite some time, and…
Read MoreReady for a moonshot? Join the Book Club’s upcoming conversation with Mariana Mazzucato!
Join the Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs, an initiative of the SDG Academy, SDSN, on Monday, April 26th at 13:00 UTC/9 am EDT/3pm CEST, for a live conversation with Professor Mariana Mazzucato, Founder and Director of the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose and author of this month’s featured book Mission Economy: A Moonshot…
Read MoreCall for Applications: The RRBM Dare to Care Dissertation Scholarship
EFMD Global is pleased to join the RRBM Community in announcing the inaugural Call for Applications to the Dare to Care Dissertation Scholarship in Management. Up to eight scholarships of $10,000 each will be awarded to doctoral students in business schools who are conducting dissertation research aligned with the principles of responsible research (www.rrbm.network). Eligible…
Read MoreBIMTECH: the pluridimensional concept of impact
Demonstrating Impact BIMTECH’s journey of impact began when it decided to earn the label of Business School Impact System (BSIS) offered by European Foundation of Management Development (EFMD), Brussels. Going through the process, we realised that accountability should move from measuring output to measuring outcomes and impact. After receiving the BSIS label in 2019, the…
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