Posts Tagged ‘sustainability’
Management research with purpose
Concepts of the Purposeful Business School: Like corporations, business schools have struggled with their sense of purpose. Critics accuse business schools of lacking engagement with practice (Rynes et al., 2001), promoting bad management theory (Ghoshal, 2005), and failing to cultivate an ethos of professionalism in management (Khurana, 2007). Little wonder that leading gurus openly proclaim that management scholarship is troubled (Mintzberg, 2004) and that business schools have lost their way (Bennis and O’Toole, 2005).
Read MoreStepping up to sustainability for Africa
The role of sustainable management education for Africa – Mark Smith, Mumbi Maria Wachira and Sherwat Elwan Ibrahim look at the opportunities and challenges.
Read MoreResponsible management education: Rhetoric vs reality
Despite the commitment of business schools, has the complex agenda of embedding sustainability authentically translated into reality? By Fara Azmat, Ameeta Jain and Bhavani Sridharan.
Read MoreManagement 2.0 for sustainability 2.0: The silent revolution in the making
The machine model for management that we inherited from the industrial age has run its course. Is sustainability hostage to an old management paradigm? If so, asks Richard Straub, how can we liberate it from this yoke?
Read MoreHow to develop a sustainable business school
In their book, Véronique Ambrosini, Gavin Jack and Lisa Thomas build on their disciplinary knowledge and body of work to elaborate on how sustainability could become the modus operandi for business schools.
Read MoreDefining environmental challenges
CEMS harnessed the power of its unique global network of academics and corporate partners to explore what ‘environmental challenges’ means in practice.
Read MoreTeaching sustainability management
Sustainability and sustainability management are inherently complex topics, and even if we generally know what we need to do as humankind, we are still very far away from actually doing it.
Read MoreTransforming small-scale irrigation systems from underperformance to sustainability
A partnership of seven organisations from Australia and Africa developed a theory of change to address complex challenges and transition underperforming irrigation systems to sustainable systems by transforming the small-scale farmers to profitable farm businesses.
Read More¿Están las escuelas de negocio predicando con el ejemplo?
¿En qué medida comunican las escuelas de negocios de todo el mundo su compromiso con la sostenibilidad? Lars Moratis y Frans Melissen investigan.
Read MoreGlobal responsibility in practice: Examples of collaboration, alliance, and inter-dependency from GRLI partners and associates
For GRLI Partners and Associates, alliances and connections acknowledge the truth of our interdependency and the power that comes from bringing the best of different elements together. See three case studies.
Read MoreWhere the new leadership hides: A call for acknowledging extracurricular commitment
Our role is to support students in their personal development through diverse leadership initiatives, offering platforms to build a strong global support network,
Read MoreTransforming education in Australian business schools: Our past, present, and future
Using climate action as an example, we examine recent curriculum innovations by Australian schools to produce graduates who are prepared for the world of work, but who also see their own potential as agents for social change and future leaders.
Read MoreThe SDG 8 dilemma: How the school of business, economics and Law at University of Gothenburg is taking action on this front
The SDG 8, promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all, concerns a core controversy of sustainable development – the link between environment and economy.
Read MorePeople, planet and prosperity depend on the health of pollinators like the humble honey bee
The Honey Bee Initiative (HBI), housed in the Business for a Better World Center at the School of Business of George Mason University, responds to an important global food security crisis.
Read MoreHope in the time of collapse
Half of the world’s population is considered “highly vulnerable”. The emergency that so many in the rich world have felt was somewhere off in the future, is here. Now. It’s just somewhere else.
Read More“Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so”
Questioning the choice of what we measure or how we measure it is at the centre of many discussions and debates both in society and within organisations.
Read MoreGlobal responsibility and globally responsible leadership
The purpose of the globally responsible business is to create economic and societal progress in a globally responsible and sustainable way.
Read MoreResponsible leadership business model: Shifting from competition to collaboration
The lack of success in the integration of SDG content in business school education is likely due to the traditional business school mindset of competition rather than collaboration which is critical for authentic responsible leadership.
Read MoreThriving: Regenerating nature, society and the economy through business & innovation
Is sustainability an idea that has passed? By contrast, if you ask someone if they would like to thrive, most likely, the answer will be, “yes, absolutely”.
Read MoreThe future of business schools: Existential innovation or obsolescence?
Business schools face a choice: urgently embark on an existential innovation journey inspired by what they can become, or submit to certain obsolescence following from what they have been.
Read MoreReflections of a former business school dean: Mounting efforts to transform business school rankings
Julia Christensen Hughes invites business school deans to engage with initiatives underway to transform business schools and rankings’ metrics, to help build a more sustainable future.
Read MoreOur global context calls for global responsibility: Reflections on the role of business schools in meeting the challenges of our time
As business schools, we must acknowledge that we educate talented young people for positions in society where they will have the power to make decisions with large societal impact.
Read MoreHidden in plain sight: the easiest leverage for change
Isabel Rimanoczy discusses the “Sustainability Mindset” and the path to an accelerated mindset transformation.
Read MoreBridging divides: Turf, Truth & Trust
Jan-Christian Sorensen introduces the Victoria Forum, a global platform for building consensus toward common goals.
Read MoreCreating a green school
Reducing the carbon footprint of a modern-day university with a goal of a net-zero campus, by Debdutta Choudhury.
Read MoreAre the world’s business schools walking the walk?
David Grayson, Chris Coulter and Mark Lee introduce The Sustainable Business Handbook.
Read MoreBusiness school collaboration: Embracing our responsibility towards our planet
Concepción Galdón, Knut Haanaes, Daniel Halbheer, Jennifer Howard-Grenville, Katell Le Goulven, Mike Rosenberg, Peter Tufano, and Amelia Whitelaw discuss the importance of making knowledge available to the business community through various shared initiatives.
Read MoreCan finance save humanity?
This article makes the business case that sustainability is a core value for companies and that finance is the driver of this new agenda for organisations.
Read MoreAsia’s social entrepreneurs and inclusive growth: Do well, do good… do sustainably
Sheetal (Mittal) Bhardwaj, Havovi Joshi and Howard Thomas explain how social entrepreneurship creates both economic and social value, driving inclusive growth in Asia.
Read MoreThe benefits of collaborative front-line research
Jonathan T. Scott and Chenghai Yang explain a front-line research project bringing together an eclectic group of professionals to innovate and streamline key production segments in agriculture and other industries.
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