Tag: Sustainable Business

Sustainable Business Examples from Around the World – British Columbia, Canada

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As businesses become more engaged in sustainability around the world, we are presented with an increasing range of examples of active companies. However, when I speak with students and faculty, they say that they repeatedly hear the same examples from the same international companies. In an attempt to share some new examples of good practise, … Continue reading Sustainable Business Examples from Around the World – British Columbia, Canada

Sustainable Business Examples from Around the World – Germany, USA, and India

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As businesses become more and more engaged in sustainability around the world, we are presented with an increasing range of examples of active companies. However, when I speak with students and faculty, they say that they often hear about the same examples from the same international companies over and over again. In an attempt to … Continue reading Sustainable Business Examples from Around the World – Germany, USA, and India

Online and connected: Creating a Sustainable Campus using Apps (Part 3) – Business Schools

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In this series of blogs focusing on using apps to help make the campus more sustainable, we have looked at a range of resources from increasing efficiency to making your travel plans more sustainable. In this last part we look specifically at the Business School and how it could benefit from exploring the potential of … Continue reading Online and connected: Creating a Sustainable Campus using Apps (Part 3) – Business Schools

Online and connected: Creating a Sustainable Campus using Apps – (part 2)

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Organizations around the world, from business to NGOs to individuals, are creating apps for smart phones. These mobile apps enable people to connect to networks, get access to real time data, receive feedback and understand information in a visual way. Although these apps are not focused specifically on university campuses, they are easily used in … Continue reading Online and connected: Creating a Sustainable Campus using Apps – (part 2)

Women, Responsible Leadership and the MBA (part 4): Women on campus

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Business schools around the world have taken a wide range of approaches when it comes to providing specific opportunities to promote and empower women in business. In the first blog we looked at range of resources on this topic and in the second post we looked at schools that provide a range of free certificate … Continue reading Women, Responsible Leadership and the MBA (part 4): Women on campus

Women, Responsible Leadership and the MBA (part 3): Empowering Women

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Business schools around the world have taken a wide range of approaches when it comes to providing specific opportunities to promote and empower women in business. In the first blog we looked at a range of resources on this topic, while in the second we looked at schools that provide free certificate programmes through the … Continue reading Women, Responsible Leadership and the MBA (part 3): Empowering Women

Women, Responsible Leadership and the MBA (part 2): Entrepreneurship and 10,000 Women

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 The last blog focused on Women, Responsible Leadership and the MBA by looking at the range of initiatives and resources available on this topic. Now, the second part considers the growth in training programmes specifically focused on women entrepreneurs. Specifically, we look at PRME signatories involved in the 10,000 Women project started by Goldman Sachs. … Continue reading Women, Responsible Leadership and the MBA (part 2): Entrepreneurship and 10,000 Women

Certificates in Sustainable Business

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A growing number of schools are putting in place certificate programmes that give their students the flexibility to pursue a traditional curriculum while specialising in the topic of sustainability. Below are a selection of such programmes from the US, France, Canada and Denmark. Pepperdine University Graziadio School of Business and Management started offering their students … Continue reading Certificates in Sustainable Business