In September 2015, all 193 Member States of the United Nations adopted a plan for achieving a better future for all – laying out a path over the next 15 years to end extreme poverty, fight inequality and injustice, and protect our planet. This plan in laid out in 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which … Continue reading 5 Key Resources – Management Education and the Sustainable Development Goals
Category: Rio+20
Management Education and the United Nations
As an initiative established by the United Nations, PRME provides a range of opportunities for signatories to engage with a range of programmes throughout the UN system. This includes the wider “UN family” made up of the UN and its many affiliated programmes (e.g. UNDP, UNEP), funds (e.g. UNICEF), and specialised agencies (e.g. ILO, IMF, … Continue reading Management Education and the United Nations
2015 Good Practices in Responsible Management Education (Part 2)
It is once again time for PRiMEtime’s year-end review. 2015 was another exciting year with a lot of innovative new initiatives and approaches at business schools around the world to embedding responsible leadership and sustainability into their programmes. Sixty articles were posted featuring over 182 examples from more than 114 schools in 38 countries. In … Continue reading 2015 Good Practices in Responsible Management Education (Part 2)
2015 Good Practices in Responsible Management Education (Part 1)
It is once again time for PRiMEtime’s year-end review. 2015 was another exciting year with a lot of innovative new initiatives and approaches at business schools around the world embedding responsible leadership and sustainability into their programmes. Sixty articles were posted over the year on responsible management education, featuring over 182 examples from more than … Continue reading 2015 Good Practices in Responsible Management Education (Part 1)
From the pilot phase to the online portal: Key steps toward Anti-Corruption Toolkit for MBA programmes
Almost exactly one year ago, I had the chance to speak with Matthias Kleinhempel and Gabriel Cecchini from the Center for Governance and Transparency at IAE Business School in Argentina and coordinators of the PRME Working Group on Anti-Corruption in Curriculum Change. Together with the members of the Working Group, they had been working … Continue reading From the pilot phase to the online portal: Key steps toward Anti-Corruption Toolkit for MBA programmes
Developing the post 2015 agenda
In the year 2000, world leaders came together to establish the Millennium Development Goals - also known as the MDGs - a set of eight goals which member states and international organizations have agreed to achieve by the year 2015. The MDGs are to: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger Achieve universal primary education Promote gender … Continue reading Developing the post 2015 agenda
2012 Summary of Best Practices in Responsible Management Education (Part 2)
2012 has been an interesting year for sustainability and management education and through Primetime I have tried to share some of the incredible work that PRME signatories are doing to mainstream responsible leadership and management education around the world. Primetime has become quite a repository of examples and in the final few blogs of the … Continue reading 2012 Summary of Best Practices in Responsible Management Education (Part 2)
2012 Summary of Best Practices in Responsible Management Education (Part 1)
2012 has been an interesting year for sustainability and management education and through Primetime I have tried to share some of the incredible work that PRME signatories are doing to mainstream responsible leadership and management education around the world. Primetime has become quite a repository of examples and in the final few blogs of the … Continue reading 2012 Summary of Best Practices in Responsible Management Education (Part 1)
Why Rio+20 was still a success – the contribution of the private sector and academic institutions in support of sustainable development and the Rio+20 process by Jonas Haertle
On my first day after returning from the Rio+20 conference - officially, the UN Conference on Sustainable Development which took place 20 years after the 1992 Rio Earth Summit - I spoke to a group of MBA students at Fordham University in New York. Admittedly, the instructor had asked the class to read about the … Continue reading Why Rio+20 was still a success – the contribution of the private sector and academic institutions in support of sustainable development and the Rio+20 process by Jonas Haertle
Outcomes of the 3rd Global Forum, 14-15 June, Brazil
The 3rd PRME Global Forum on 14-15 June 2012 was the official platform for management-related Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) at Rio+20 – the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development – and the Rio+20 Corporate Sustainability Forum, hosted by the UN Global Compact. A series of measures to inject sustainability principles into management and business school curricula were announced at the Forum in … Continue reading Outcomes of the 3rd Global Forum, 14-15 June, Brazil