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Map the System 2022 – Launch Event

#MaptheSystem is back! Save the date and join us for the launch of MTS 2022 with a very special Keynote speech from Professor Yunus.

About the Event

Welcome to Map the System 2022! This workshop will welcome all of our partners and participants to this year’s competition.

Save the date and join us for the launch of ÂŽMap the System 2022 with a very special Keynote Speech from Nobel laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus on 25th January 2022 at 2pm GMT (check your local time here).

Map the System is organised by the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at SaĂŻd Business School, University of Oxford. This workshop has been designed with and will be delivered by our partners at The Grameen Creative Lab.

Join us as we cover the below areas in the workshop.

  • Keynote Speech from Professor Yunus and time for Q&A.
  • What is systems thinking? Why do we need it?
  • Who applies systems thinking? Examples from organisations who use systems thinking.
  • How to apply systems thinking? Problem definition and an overview of systems mapping techniques and tools.
  • Key learnings of the workshop and next steps for the Map the System competition.

Student Registration for Map the System is open until 31st January 2022.

Date & Time

Tuesday, 25 January 2022
9:00am – 10:30am EST

Registration

Please note:
– Attendance is free but you must register in advance via Eventbrite.
– The link to access the online event will be emailed to you approximately 24 hours before the event, and a reminder on the day of the event.
– The session will be recorded.

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For more information, please email mapthesystem@sbs.ox.ac.uk or visit our website at www.mapthesystem.sbs.ox.ac.uk

About Map the System

Map the System is a global competition of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship in partnership with educational institutions across the world.

Map the System asks participants to use ‘systems thinking’ as a guiding approach to understanding complex social and environmental challenges. Participants are evaluated based not on a ‘solution’ to a problem, but rather on the depth of understanding of the problem, including an analysis of existing solution efforts, impact gaps and opportunities for positive change. Participants create systems maps as a means to articulate their findings in a way that people can meaningfully understand, share, and learn from – key skill sets for those interested in creating systemic social or environmental change.

Toward Successful Transitions – Economic Recovery and Democratic Renewal

The Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) is pleased to invite you to join us for the inaugural, public conference of the Free Enterprise & Democracy Network (FEDN). This virtual, two-day conference will serve as a compliment to the World Movement for Democracy and convene leaders and advocates under the theme of “Towards Successful Transitions – Economic Recovery and Democratic Renewal”.

Registration is required to obtain access details.

About the Event

As economic recovery ticks up in certain countries, democracies remain under pressure. The pandemic has exposed weaknesses and disparities that challenge the credibility of democracy, while authoritarian tendencies continue to encroach on freedom. Democracies can adapt, but their prospects will look very different depending on the economic model that dominates crisis and recovery.
 
In its inaugural conference, which is open to the public, the Free Enterprise & Democracy Network will delve into the prospects for markets and private business to support democratic transition and resist autocracy. Can free markets create inclusive opportunity? Will business take new leadership roles in society?  And if it does, will it be trusted? FEDN members and guest speakers will explore priority policy choices to shape recovery and private sector solutions that will change the rules of the game.

To view the full conference schedule and speakers, visit the conference event page.

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Dates & Time

Monday, June 28 – Tuesday, June 29 2021

Beginning at:

  • 8:00 AM Washington D.C.
  • 1:00 PM London
  • 2:00 PM Geneva
  • 2:00 PM Cape Town
  • 5:30 PM Mumbai
  • 8:00 PM Singapore
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Online is Here to Stay: The 7 Benefits of Digital Transformation in Business Schools

Join CEEMAN for a free webinar with Nikos Mylonopoulos, EdTech Program Director and Associate Professor of Digital Business at ALBA Graduate Business School, The American College of Greece.

It is said that the pandemic has accelerated digital transformation. However, how did Business Schools transform in the past year and how should they move forward post-pandemic? It is time to take stock and reframe the agenda for the future, get your comments and questions ready!

CEEMAN has prepared a pop-up session with Nikos Mylonopoulos, EdTech Program Director, on digital disruption and the impact of the pandemic for Deans and their teams and everyone interested in the topic.

The digital transformation that will prepare Business Schools for the next wave of challenges can be outlined in 7 “battlefields” of priority for the agenda of every leader.

What are those 7 battlefields and when is the right time to act on these agenda items – to start the fight? Join the lecture and the debate!

Date & Time

Wednesday 26 June, 2021

  • 8:00am Washington D.C.
  • 1:00pm London
  • 2:00pm Geneva
  • 2:00pm Cape Town
  • 5:30pm Mumbai
  • 8:00pm Singapore

Registration

Register below for the free webinar.

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Chartered ABS Taskforce Launch: Business Schools and the Public Good

Event Details

CABS is proud to publish their Taskforce report on ‘Business Schools and the Public Good’. Join us for the launch event on 14 June.

The Taskforce was set up to consider how business schools understand and deliver ‘public good’, and sought to:

  • Map approaches to public good in UK business schools.
  • Suggest ways to develop and support the spread of promising practices.
  • Expand the public narrative on the purpose of business schools.

The Taskforce reviewed how business schools deliver public good through teaching, research, internal operations, and the ways in which they engage with the world around them. The final report of the Taskforce presents 20 case studies of promising practices from a diverse range of Chartered ABS member schools, and makes recommendations as to how business schools, together with students, policymakers and industry can can go further in delivering public good across society.

The launch event will discuss the contribution business schools make to public good, including the examples highlighted by the taskforce report, and hear perspectives from business schools and external stakeholders on what more business schools can do.

Registration is required for the event.

Speakers

  • Tom Levitt, Author and Co-Chair of Taskforce for business schools and the public good
  • Professor Martin Kitchener, Cardiff Business School and Co-Chair of Taskforce for business schools and the public good
  • Lisa McIlvenna, Deputy Managing Director, Business in the Community, Northern Ireland
  • Professor Hongwei He, School Director for Social Responsibility, Alliance Manchester Business School
  • An additional panellist will be announced in due course

Date & Time

Monday, June 14th, 2021

  • 8:00am Washington D.C.
  • 1:00pm United Kingdom
  • 2:00pm Geneva
  • 2:00pm Cape Town
  • 5:30pm Mumbai
  • 8:00pm Singapore
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Making Black Lives Matter in Business

Event Details

Although Dr. Martin Luther King is remembered for the March on Washington, few people remember that the full title of that iconic march was The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Dr. King was both a fervent supporter of racial harmony and a strong proponent of equal economic opportunity for Black Americans. Many years after the death of Dr. King and the passage of the Civil Rights Act, Black Americans still suffer from large economic disparities, employment discrimination, and a higher unemployment rate. The deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and others galvanized the Black Lives Matter movement resulting in many corporations issuing statements and financial pledges in support of racial equity. Yet, a year later, so many of those pledges remain unfulfilled. Beyond corporate statements for solidarity, what is needed is true organizational change that will grant more equal opportunity to Black Americans and to Black people all over the world. A world in which all human beings have true equal access to economic mobility is how we will all live in peace.

Dr. Ajunwa will look back and assess how corporations have tried to respond to the injustice of racism in the US economy, and what they can and should do to bring us closer to achieving Dr. King’s dream of equal economic opportunity for all Black Americans.” This would follow the line in the synopsis, “A world in which all human beings have true equal access to economic mobility is how we will all live in peace.”

Speakers

Opening remarks:
Christina Bache, Chair, UN PRME Working Group on Business for Peace and Research Affiliate, Queen’s University

Moderator:
Robert McNulty, Founding Chair, UN PRME Working Group on Business for Peace and Just Business, LLC

Speaker:
Dr. Ajunwa is a tenured law professor at the UNC School of Law and an adjunct Associate Professor at the Kenan-Flagler School of Business where she is a Rethinc. lab Fellow.

Date and Time

Thursday, May 27th, 2021

  • 10:00am Washington D.C.
  • 3:00pm London
  • 4:00pm Geneva
  • 4:00pm Cape Town
  • 7:30pm Mumbai
  • 10:00pm Singapore

Registration

Registration is required for this event. Use the button below to access the registration page.

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Driving Systems Change – Corporate Leadership for the SDGs

Event Details

The world is facing fundamental and interrelated systemic challenges, including the COVID-19 pandemic as well as environmental and social crises and issues. Those issues cannot be solved by business as usual. Fortunately, there is a framework that can help navigate efforts to deal with them: the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Right now, the SDGs are the best agenda available to share ambitions and measure progress towards the achievement of a large number of common goals.

The private sector’s active involvement is vital in this ambition. But progress is too slow – not because of a lack of intentions, but because of the serious gap in developing advanced strategies in realising the SDGs. It’s difficult to integrate SDGs in core business. So, can corporate leaders step up to the challenge and drive systems change?

We think it is possible – and your contribution is important. Join our free, online conference in which we will exchange experiences, showcase tools and concepts, and learn from leading thinkers and experts. 

Speakers

Click here to see the full programme, including all speakers and an introduction to each session. 

Registration

Register Here

The email address and password you create at registration will also be needed to log in on the day of the conference. You will receive a confirmation email shortly after registration (please note that the email might be in your spam folder). Although you register for the entire event, you can then decide for yourself which day and / or session you want to attend! This means that you can attend just one day; registration for the full 3 days does not mean that you must attend all 3 days.

Although participation is free, we kindly ask you to attend the event once you have registered. Failure to show up is at the expense of someone else’s participation, as the number of tickets is limited. For questions you can send an email to ScienceWorks via assistant conference manager Karlijn van Marrewijk at k.vanmarrewijk@scienceworks.nl.

This conference is part of the project Managing the transition to sustainable business models: the role of leadership and measuring shared value creation (with project number 438-14-901 of the research programme Sustainable Business Models) which is (partly) financed by the Dutch Research Council (NWO). 

Turning Science and Practice into Simulation-Based Experiential Learning

With the value of higher education under intense scrutiny, a commitment to experiential learning provides a substantial value proposition for academic institutions. Unfortunately, many schools struggle to effectively and efficiently integrate experiential learning into their programs and the virtual classroom has increased the scope of these challenges.

Join our webinar to discover how institutions and faculty leverage simulations as a vehicle to drive meaningful student development and engagement across the curriculum in both virtual and traditional learning contexts.

Who Should Attend:

Business program faculty and administrators who want to learn more about the benefits of simulation-based experiential learning and empower their institution to leverage both science-based evidence as well as practitioner expertise for deeply meaningful learning experiences across courses and programs.

Learning Objectives:

  • Articulate a strong case for the science-backed benefits behind simulation-based learning
  • Apply specific strategies to overcome the various implementation challenges associated with virtual and traditional learning contexts
  • Describe different “in-practice” models for effectively and efficiently integrating experiential learning
  • Leverage faculty expertise and experience to create immersive, day-in-the-life simulations

Important Dates:

  • Session #1 5 May, 2021 | 11:00 am EDT | 5:00 pm CEST
  • Session #2 5 May, 2021 | 8:00pm EDT | 8:00am SGT (next day)

Facilitators

Dr. Erich Dierdorff, Professor of Management in the Driehaus College of Business at DePaul University, and Matt Shell, Market Development Manager at Capsim Management Simulations, will guide you through proven models and strategies to efficiently and effectively integrate experiential learning across your curriculum.

Contact Us

Questions? Contact william.adkins@aacsb.edu.

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2021 Virtual PRME Global Forum

Accelerating the Collective Impact of Management Education in the Decade of Action

The Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) initiative of the United Nations Global Compact is convening the 2021 Global Forum for Responsible Management Education – 9th PRME Assembly.

Join fellow deans, scholars, educators, students and business leaders across the wider PRME community in helping to envision and shape the future of business and management education in support of the global effort to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Key Themes and Sessions

  • Collaboration and strategic alignment of PRME and UNGC for collective impact (Global and Local perspective)
  • Advancing management education in key priority areas including business and human rights, decent work, gender equality, climate change and sustainable finance amongst others
  • Advancing strategic partnerships for impact and amplification
  • Focus sessions for PRME Chapters, Working Groups, Deans, Champions, Students, Partners and more
  • Student-led sessions on the value of sustainability-focused education in building competencies for the future and announcement of student-engagement initiatives
  • Presentation of PRME Recognition Awards
  • Launch of the Positive Impact Rating (PIR) 2021 Edition

Important Dates

  • 15th June, 2021: PRME will be hosting sessions at the United Nations Global Compact Leaders Summit.
  • 16th – 17th June, 2021: PRME Global Forum will begin at the conclusion of the Leaders Summit

Detailed schedule is available on the registration website.

Registration

General Admission is $199.00

Registration is complimentary for all employees of companies and non-business stakeholders participating in the UN Global Compact and as well as UN partners and affiliates and Government representatives. If you are unsure if your company is a UN Global Compact participant, please click here to search. PRME signatory tickets are complimentary as well. For questions about registration, please email leaderssummit@unglobalcompact.org.

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For more information, please email globalforum@unprme.org.

Management and War: How Organizations Navigate Conflict and Build Peace

Overview

War and conflict are a reality of life throughout the world. While much is written about the impact of violence and disorder, how people and organisations adapt to these environments is still poorly understood. This seminar will look at the often hidden story of organisational actors managing through and beyond violent conflict, building businesses, delivering services and navigating change processes in environments of violence and peacebuilding. In this, it argues that ethno-political conflict and war are organisational as well as a political processes, and that moving beyond conflict cannot be successfully achieved without a recognition of organisational actors as key to that resolution process. The seminar will draw on data from three cases: Northern Ireland, The Basque Country and Bosnia. 

Moderator

Dr Christina Bache,
Visiting Fellow, London School of Economics and Political Science, IDEAS
Chair, United Nations, Principles for Responsible Management Education, Working Group on Business for Peace

Speaker

Dr Joanne Murphy,
Reader in Leadership and Organisational Change and Co Director of the Centre for Leadership, Ethics and Organisation, Queen’s Management School, Belfast.

Dr Joanne Murphy is a Reader in Leadership and Organisational Change and the Co-Director of the centre for Leadership, Ethics and Organisation, Queen’s Management School. She is also a Fellow of the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice and a Senior Fellow of Northern Ireland’s policy Think Tank – Pivotal. Her research explores leadership, change and organisational development in political volatility, including environments affected by ethno-political conflict. She has worked extensively with business, government, not for profits and police and security organisations to build leadership capacity, management change and achieve resilience.  Her new book – Management and War: How Organisations Navigate Conflict and Build Peace, was published in August 2020. Joanne’s full profile can be accessed here.

Date

Wednesday, April 7, 2021

  • 11:00am Washington D.C.
  • 4:00pm London
  • 5:00pm Geneva/Cape Town
  • 8:30pm Mumbai
  • 11:00pm Singapore
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Will New Education Policy (NEP) make India a global destination for Higher Education

Date & Time:

Friday, August 21st| 10:30am EDT , 8pm IST

Description

The ‘New Education Policy’ of India, which was unveiled recently, has proposed some sweeping reforms in the higher education space, including allowing global universities of repute to set up their campuses in India.

Some of the recommendations in the policy include multiple entry and exit points for students, a multidisciplinary approach, a curriculum which is a combination of liberal and professional courses which has the potential to change the higher education landscape of India in the years ahead.

In this discussion on “Will NEP make India a Global Destination for Higher Education?”, Our esteemed panellists include Prof. Ulrich Hommel, Professor of Finance, EBS Business School, Germany and Prof. Jagdish N. Sheth, Charles H. Kellstadt Professor of Marketing, Goizueta Business School, Emory University.

Registration:

Please click here to register: https://ifim-edu-in.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYpc-qgpz0tH9Qf_9XIzQA0dZDnP3zupqTU

Speakers

Prof. Jagdish Sheth

Charles H. Kellstadt Chair in Marketing, Goizueta Business School

Prior to coming to Emory University, Dr. Jagdish Sheth was the Robert E. Brooker Professor of Marketing at the University of Southern California and the Walter H. Stellner Distinguished Professor of Marketing at the University of Illinois. He was also on the faculty of Columbia University and MIT.

Also known as “Jag,” Dr. Sheth has published more than 350 research papers and books in various areas of marketing, including consumer behavior, multivariate methods, competitive strategy, relationship marketing and more recently, marketing for

emerging markets.

Dr. Sheth is an American Psychological Association Fellow and past President of the Association for Consumer Research (ACR). He is also a Fellow of the American Marketing Association and the Academy of Marketing Science. Among his past and present accolades, Dr. Sheth was the recipient of the Viktor Mataja Medal from the Austrian Research Society in Vienna (1977) and the 1989 Outstanding Marketing Educator Award from the Academy of Marketing Science. In 1991 and again in 1999, Dr. Sheth was also recognized as the “Marketing Educator of the Year” by Sales and Marketing Executives International (SMEI).

Dr. Sheth is the recipient of all top four academic awards bestowed by the American Marketing Association (AMA). These include the PD Converse Award for Marketing Theory (1998), Charles Coolidge Parlin Award for Marketing Research (2004), the Richard D. Irwin/McGraw Hill Marketing Educator Award (2004) and the William L. Wilkie “Marketing for a Better World” Award (2014). In 1996, he was elected to be the Distinguished Fellow of the Academy of Marketing Science. Subsequent honors include the Outstanding Leadership Award by the AMA Foundation in 2002 and the Global Innovation Award and Marion Creekmore Award, both from Emory University. Over the last 3 decades, Dr. Sheth has received more than 30 awards as a thought leader in marketing, consumer behavior and emerging markets.

Prof. Ulrich Hommel

Professor of Finance, EBS University

Prof. Ulrich Hommel is an associate director of quality services at the European Foundation for Management Development(EFMD) and, as one of the EPAS directors, is responsible for the EFMD Programme Accreditation System (EPAS). He is also a professor of finance and the director of the Strategic Finance Institute at the EBS Business School (EBS) based in Wiesbaden, Germany.

He earned a Ph.D. in economics from The University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) in 1994 and successfully completed his habilitation in business administration at the WHU-Otto Beisheim School of Management in 2002.

After completing his doctoral studies, Prof. Hommel joined the faculty of the WHU as an assistant professor of finance in 1994. He joined the faculty of the EBS Business School (formerly called European Business School International University Schloss Reichartshausen) in 2000 and was appointed full professor of finance in 2002.

Prof. Hommel served as academic dean of the EBS from 2000 to 2002 and was subsequently the rector of the EBS as well as the managing director of the EBS GmbH between 2003 and 2006. He was appointed associate director of quality services at EFMD in 2007 and, as one of the EPAS Directors, has assumed joint responsibility for EPAS, the EFMD Programme Accreditation System. Prof. Hommel has published widely in the areas of real options analysis, corporate risk management, corporate restructuring, family business financing as well as venture capital financing. In the past, he has held visiting appointments at Bordeaux École de Management, Krannert School of Management of Purdue University and the Stephen M. Ross School of Business of The University of Michigan.

Dr. Atish Chattopadhyay, Professor & Director, IFIM Business School

Vice Chancellor, Vijaybhoomi University

An entrepreneur and educator, Dr. Atish is a keen proponent of the globalization of Indian Business Education.

He has previously held leadership positions at the top Business Schools in India, like SPJIMR, Mumbai; MICA, Ahmedabad; and IMT, Ghaziabad. Under his leadership, these schools initiated path breaking pedagogical innovations, winning global accolades, including finding a place on AACSB’s ‘Innovations that Inspire’ List.

As a Professor of Marketing, Dr. Atish has published in leading journals and consulted with top MNCs covering the Asia Pacific and Latin America regions.

At IFIM, he has pioneered a study in association with the industry to curate a graduate management curriculum that caters to the needs of Industry 4.0 to groom Leaders 4.0.

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