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Business Schools and the Positive Impact Rating (PIR)

General Information

More than 20 GBSN members have registered to participate in the 2024 edition of the Positive Impact Rating (PIR), which is based on student input about the societal impact of their business schools. In this session, we explore the experience of four schools on four continents. Why did they choose to participate in the PIR? What were the risks and challenges? What did they learn? In what ways did it help them? How has GBSN membership supported their goals of cultivating positive impact?

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Session Recording

Date & Time

Tuesday, 13 February at 8:00am EDT/1:00 CET

Speakers

  • Dr. Jill Bogie

    Director: GIBS Sustainability Initiatives Africa
    Gordon Institute of Business Science
    South Africa
  • Dan LeClair

    Dan LeClair, Ph.D

    CEO
    Global Business School Network
    USA

  • Snehal Shah

    Associate Dean, Academics & Research
    S.P. Jain Institute of Management and Research
    India

  • Sandro Sánchez

    Chief Positive Impact Officer
    Centrum PUCP Business School
    Peru

  • Susana Santos

    Sustainability Manager
    Nova School of Business and Economics
    Portugal

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Registration

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About the Positive Impact Rating (PIR)

The Positive Impact Rating (PIR) evaluates business schools based on their societal impact and commitment to continuous improvement. Unlike traditional rankings, PIR emphasizes purpose-driven education, aligning with the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

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What is the Positive Impact Rating?

The Positive Impact Rating (PIR) evaluates business schools based on their societal impact and commitment to continuous improvement. Unlike traditional rankings, PIR emphasizes purpose-driven education, aligning with the UN Sustainable Development Goals. By joining, schools gain a competitive edge, showcasing their commitment to sustainability and societal impact, and attracting purpose-driven students and partners.

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Why Join the Positive Impact:

Showcase Your School

PIR is the only global rating that highlights business schools committed to societal impact and providing a 21st-century education that prepares students for global challenges. More Information

Strengthen Your Accreditation

Many schools utilize PIR’s data to enhance their accreditation reports for organizations like AACSB, EQUIS, and UN PRME. More Information

Support Your Change Process

The rating incorporates student feedback on your school’s societal impact, offering valuable insights for your internal change initiatives. More Information

Compare and Improve

PIR’s Dashboard features downloadable reports and visualized data, allowing you to compare your school’s performance with others and identify areas for improvement. More Information

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IPADE Business School: Shaping Future Leaders in Mexico – GBSN member schools graduates’ opportunity:  Join our Faculty!

Qualifications

  • Strong academic background
  • Interested in studying a PhD program
  • Teaching vocation and interest in research
  • Preferably able to speak Spanish or willing to learn it
  • Strong written and oral communication skills

Education

  • Master’s degree
  • Studies related to the academic departments

Responsibilities

  • Teaching and academic research and management duties
  • Academic research
  • Management activities
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2024 Health Tech Global Case Writing Competition

Description

The William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan (WDI) cordially invites you to enter their competition and submit your academic business case study about a novel product or service technology appropriate for a low- and middle-income country (LMIC) setting that contributes toward improving, maintaining or monitoring the health of a given population.

The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the development and adoption of health technology in LMICs, including telehealth, remote monitoring, health data management, more efficient vaccine distribution, and digital literacy, among other innovations. According to a 2023 report from the World Bank, investment in digital solutions that improve access, value and affordability and value are critical for managing and delivering high-quality healthcare. According to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the emergence of  technologies in artificial intelligence, sensor networks, mobile communications, and bioengineering could be transformative to human health, especially in LMICs.

WDI Publishing is proud to offer a competition aimed at increasing the number of academic business cases available about this very important topic.

Why enter? Winning cases receive cash prizes and will be professionally published and distributed via WDI Publishing.

Please see our Submission Requirements for more information.

Competition Objectives

  • Encourage and reward the development of new business case studies that focus on novel health-related technology innovation appropriate for low- and middle-income country settings.
  • Publish higher education case studies that will help develop the necessary student critical thinking skills regarding the unique health-related technology needs of LMICs.
  • Accelerate global knowledge of novel health-related technology innovations being implemented by businesses in LMICs.

Requirements

  • Individual students or student teams (graduate or undergraduate) and other professionals may enter, but must enter in collaboration with a faculty member or instructor from an accredited university/college, in the U.S. or internationally.
  • Individual faculty/instructors or teams from an accredited university/college (in the U.S. or internationally) may also enter.

Key Dates

  • Jan 17, 2024 (10am-11am EST): “Competition Overview & Case Writing Tips”REGISTER NOW
  • Jan 31, 2024: Intent-to-Enter forms due.
  • March 15, 2024: Final submission documents due.
  • July 2024: Public announcement of winners.

How to Enter

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International Summer University WU – High potential scholarship for students from emerging countries

WU offers scholarships for the summer program ISUWU. Undergraduate and graduate students can apply for these scholarship during the application process, if they meet the respective criteria.

The ISUWU scholarship is intended to support the participation of students from selected countries. For the ISUWU 2024, WU provides a maximum of ten scholarship positions.

Amount of the ISUWU Scholarship

The ISU WU program fee will be waived for students selected for an ISU WU scholarship. In addition, selected students will receive a travel and accommodation grant of EUR 1000 upon their arrival in Vienna.

Application requirements

High potential scholarship for students from emerging countries

You are eligible for this scholarship if you are actively enrolled in business administration or related fields at a university in emerging countries (i.e. countries with low or lower-middle income). For a full list of countries, see here. An excellent academic performance (GPA) and active student engagement are prerequisites for the scholarship.

Scholarship for students from Ukraine

You are eligible for this scholarship if you are actively enrolled in business administration or related fields at a Ukrainian university. An excellent academic performance (GPA) and active student engagement are prerequisites for the scholarship.

Please note that due to potential exit restrictions in Ukraine, it might not be possible for male students to leave the country and therefore attend the ISUWU.

Application process and documents

You can apply for the ISUWU scholarship during the regular ISUWU application period in our online application system.

To apply for a scholarship, please upload the following documents:

  • Application letter: please explain why you are particularly deserving of an ISUWU scholarship, how the scholarship can contribute to your academic success and why it is important for your studies (1 page max.)
  • Confirmation of enrollment in business administration or related fields

Please note that you can only be selected for an ISUWU scholarship if you also fulfil the general admission criteria for the ISU WU. For general ISUWU application information, see the section Application & Admission.

Please note:

  • The ISUWU scholarship is non-recurring, i.e. students may only participate in the ISUWU once at this special rate.
  • In order to receive the ISU WU scholarship, students will have to declare that they do not have sufficient financial means and will not receive financial support from other sources to cover the costs of stay during the International Summer University WU. 

Dates & Deadlines

Application period: February 15 – March 31, 2024

Nomination deadline: March 15, 2024

July session: July 1 – July 19, 2024

August session: July 22 – August 9, 2024

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Applications OPEN – DHL GoTrade GBSN Fellowship Program 2024

Deutsche Post DHL Group and GBSN partner to break down barriers to global trade.

In furtherance of our mission to improve management and entrepreneurial education, GBSN has partnered with one of its corporate members DPDHL to develop the GoTrade GBSN Fellowship Program. This Fellowship Program is designed to partner selected postgraduate business students with small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the developing world with the aim of fostering greater cross-border trade. This directly addresses our collective mission at GBSN –– to improve access to quality, locally relevant management and entrepreneurial education for the developing world. GoTrade is education and access.

APPLICATIONS FOR 2024 ARE NOW OPEN.

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Decolonising Curricula: Implications for Racial and Climate Justice

In celebrating Black History Month in Ireland in October 2023, University College Dublin (UCD) College of Business, in association with UCD Center for Business in Society (CeBaS), UCD Earth Institute, and IPSERA, invites students, faculty, policymakers and those interested in racial and climate justice, to join this conversation on decolonizing curricula.

Date: Thursday, October 19th
Time: 1:30PM IST | 2:30PM CEST | 3:30PM EAT

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The session will feature input from Dr Sadhvi Dar (Queen Mary University London) and one of the authors of ‘The Business School is Racist: Act Up!’ This will be followed by a panel discussion chaired by Penelope Muzanenhamo and involving some of our current Smurfit students (Vignesh Asokh, MSc Supply Chain Mgmt), Angel Brummet (MSc Int’ Business) and Annylah Clarke (MSc Food Business), and CoB EDI VP Colm McLaughlin.

At the center of the conversation will be a number of important questions that include, but are not limited to:

  • What is meant by decolonizing curricula?
  • Is decolonizing curricula a Black and Brown people’s ‘thing’?
  • Who benefits from decolonized curricula?
  • Why are business school textbooks and other teaching resources mostly produced by White male scholars?
  • How is Western patriarchy intertwined with the current state of knowledge at the center of our collective debates on decolonizing curricula?
  • What does decolonizing curricula imply for racial equality, and climate justice?
  • Beyond racial and climate justice, what would decolonized curricula offer in terms of tackling structural inequalities based on gender, sexuality and ableism among other demographic labels?
  • What would decolonized curricula look like?

Please join us to understand issues of decolonizing curricula, tackle questions of racial and climate justice, and to hear from a panel of experts.

Call for Abstracts | 9th Business and Human Rights Young Researchers Summit | Geneva, Switzerland, August 29-30 2024

The Institute for Business Ethics at University of St. Gallen, the Geneva Center for  Business and Human Rights at Geneva University’s Geneva School of Economics and  Management, the Center for Business and Human Rights at New York University’s  Stern School of Business, and the Business and Human Rights Journal (BHRJ) are pleased to announce the 9thBusiness and Human Rights Young Researchers Summit in Geneva, Switzerland, taking place on August 29-30, 2024. 

The Summit will bring together approximately 10-15 excellent PhD students and  early post-doc researchers (cut-off is one year after graduation) who engage in  research in the business and human rights field. The objective is for participants to  present their research project in an interdisciplinary, collaborative workshop setting.  Scholars from all disciplines are invited to apply including ethics, law, business, and  global affairs. Submissions from non-law disciplines are particularly welcome. The  focus is on paper development. Therefore, papers should outline research-in progress, be single-authored, and must be not be under consideration for publication 

at the time of presentation. We encourage submissions from all parts of the world  and we strive for gender balance in our selection. 

Lodging and meals will be provided for the duration of the Summit. Travel stipends  will be offered for participants traveling from outside of Europe. For further information on the BHR Young Researchers Summit and on how to join the BHR Young Researchers Network visit – 

• https://iwe.unisg.ch/en/initiativen/bhr-young-researchers-summit 

• https://gcbhr.org/focus/business-education/young-researchers-summit

• https://bhr.stern.nyu.edu/young-researchers-summit 

To apply, please submit an abstract of no more than 600 words to youngresearcherssummit@gmail.com. Please include your name, affiliation, contact  information, and curriculum vitae. For questions, please contact Pascale Chavaz at youngresearcherssummit@gmail.com.  

Important Dates

The deadline for the submission of abstracts is January 15, 2024.

Candidates whose  submissions are selected for participation in the Summit will be notified no later than  February 19, 2024.

Full papers will be due on July 15, 2024 and will be distributed to  all participants for review before the workshop. Each participant is expected to  formally comment on one other paper. 

Call for International PhD Graduates to Join Woxsen University as Faculty

Woxsen University is dedicated to fostering academic excellence, research innovation, and global collaboration. We take pride in our diverse and dynamic academic environment that encompasses seven distinct schools: Business, Design, Architecture, Humanities, Computer Science, Life Sciences, and Law.

As part of our commitment to promoting cutting-edge research and nurturing future leaders, we are excited to announce a call for PhD candidates/graduates to join our team as full-time professors.

We believe that our partner universities play a pivotal role in identifying exceptional talents who can benefit from the world-class facilities and research opportunities that Woxsen University offers. Therefore, we kindly request your assistance in disseminating this information within your academic community and encouraging qualified candidates to apply.

Application Deadline: 10th November 2023
Documents required: CV/resume with contact details

Conditions: PhD awarded OR Thesis submitted OR Defense awaited within the next 6-10 months

For more information, please contact: abhishikta.pramanik@woxsen.edu.in

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Accounting for Sustainability International Case Competition (A4SICC)

We are delighted to support the Accounting for Sustainability International Case Competition: a unique opportunity for students across the world to help drive sustainable business solutions.

Today’s business and accounting students will have to manage a wide range of sustainability challenges upon entering the workforce. To succeed, and more importantly, to help shape and drive a sustainable economy, these students will require both theoretical and practical sustainability skills. Accounting for Sustainability (A4S) aims to address this knowledge gap – join us in supporting the competition!

What is the competition?

Established in 2018, A4SICC provides an opportunity for business and accounting students to develop and apply their skills to solve sustainability challenges in a commercial environment – supporting us all to transition to a sustainable economy. By engaging students in how we can solve pressing global problems, we are equipping them with the tools and skills to meet the social and environmental challenges ahead.

For the 2025 competition, students are invited to select one of the world’s 2,000 most influential companies from the World Benchmarking Alliance SDG2000 list and examine its approach to corporate decarbonization within the broader context of a fair and just climate transition.

Get your students involved

A4SICC offers your students a transformative and practical learning experience as well as the chance to: 

  • Travel to Toronto, Canada for the face-to-face finals
  • Win a cash prize of CA$10,000 (winning team) or CA$5,000 (runner-up)!
  • Access the internships linked to the competition
  • Cultivate critical skills for sustainable business development
  • Connect with industry leaders
  • Contribute to the advancement of sustainable business practices

You can find an overview of the competition and links to easy-to-use templates to excite and engage your students in this A4SICC Communications Deck. Watching the video from A4SICC 2024 is a great way to get a feel for the competition. 

Find out more on the A4S website here, or contact the A4SICC team at a4sicc@a4s.org to get involved.

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