Written by: Andrew Jack Published by: Financial Times MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: Business education is starting to diversify beyond teaching traditional skills and profit maximisation. There is, instead, greater focus on social purpose, including sustainability and improved ethics and governance practices. The Financial Times plans to identify and showcase some of the … [Read more...]
Imperial launches online course on sustainability for business professionals
Written by: Laura Singleton Published by: Imperial College London MBA News Digest Comment: Could GME programs scale this activity for their alums? Extracted Content: The course will focus on sustainability from three key perspectives; corporate sustainability, business ethics and social innovation. It will equip participants with a comprehensive understanding of sustainability issues, the … [Read more...]
Sustainable Finance Goes to Business School
Content written by Dieter Holger and published by The Wall Street Journal. MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: New classes teach students how to evaluate a company based on ESG [environmental, social and governance] performance, as well as how to finance green businesses. Click Here to Read More Via Original Source … [Read more...]
HEC MONTRÉAL PART OF A NEW MBA IN RENEWABLE ENERGIES FROM MDI ALGIERS
Content written and published by HEC Montréal on 26 February 2019. MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: HEC Montréal is putting its expertise in sustainable development to use for students in a new program at the MDI Algiers Business School, an MBA in renewable energies. As part of the program, to be launched in the coming months, HEC Montréal professors will travel to … [Read more...]
An Exploratory Study of Ethics, CSR, and Sustainability in the Management Education of Top Universities in the Arab Region
Content written by Noha El-Bassiouny, Ehab K. A. Mohamed, Mohamed A. K. Basuony and Salma Kolkailah and published by Journal of Business Ethics Education. MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: Abstract. This research aims at exploring the status of integrating Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in higher management education in the Arab region. The universities in the … [Read more...]
Let’s Get Sustainable: A Five-Day MBA Residency Adventure
Content written by Grace Hurford and Philippa Chapman and published as a book chapter in Evolving Leadership for Collective Wellbeing, expected publication. MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: This chapter addresses the growing need to focus on how teaching and learning at MBA level can be reoriented toward leading for sustainability and how such interventions can be measured. … [Read more...]