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“European business schools are uniquely positioned to lead in #sustainability education,” argues Julia Binder professor of sustainable innovation and business transformation at IMD pointing to the role of high societal expectations and regulatory frameworks such as the CSRD. #imdimpact David Bach Vanina Farber Omar Toulan Dr. Florian Hoos Goutam Challagalla Rev. Dr. Susan Goldsworthy OLY Frédéric Dalsace

Are you ready to become a catalyst for sustainable transformation within your organization? Our Mannheim Master in Sustainability & Impact Management is designed to equip you with the cutting-edge skills needed to lead in today’s rapidly evolving sustainability landscape. Today, we want to inform you about the content & curriculum of our Mannheim Master in Sustainability & Impact Management! 🏆 Triple Crown Accreditation: We are proud to be among the small elite of business schools worldwide that hold the prestigious Triple Crown accreditation. This global recognition underscores our commitment to excellence. 🌱 #1 in Sustainability: We have been ranked #1 in Germany for Sustainability by Corporate Knights, reflecting our dedication to providing top-tier education in this crucial field. 📚 Curriculum Highlights: - Sustainable Technologies: Dive deep into the most important topics concerning the environment. - Regulation, Governance & Reporting: Master the methodologies that are shaping the future of sustainability-driven decision-making. - Sustainable Business: Learn how to strategically leverage sustainability for impactful management decisions. 👥 Holistic Personal Development: We emphasize personal growth through group work, comprehensive coaching, soft skills training, and workshops. 🎓 12-Month Master Thesis: Collaborate on a group project over 12 months, applying your knowledge to real-world challenges. 🤝 Lifelong Network: Even after graduation, you’ll have life-long access to our extensive network, regional chapters, clubs, and exclusive content—keeping you connected with inspiring professionals worldwide. 👩🎓👨🎓 Peer Learning: Benefit from the rich exchange of ideas with your high-caliber classmates in a dynamic and interactive classroom environment. Join us and be part of a community that not only prepares you for the future but empowers you to shape it. 🚀 The best way to experience all of this first hand: Be part of our 'Experience & Impact Day' on Saturday, November 9! #MannheimerForLife #MannheimBusinessSchool #Management #Sustainability #Impact #ESG #Transformation

I am thrilled to share my certificate of completion of the University of Cambridge's CPD course in Business Sustainability Management with First Class Honours of 82%. This course equips you with the tools to drive impactful change within organizations, addressing the increasing importance of sustainability practices in business. #RewiringtheEconomy #CPD #BusinessSustainabilityManagement #UniversityofCambridge #sustainability

👉 Are you fluent in ESG? This should be a competency to assess in future and not only when recruiting experts in Sustainability. 🗓 In January, I attended Open Doors session arranged by EcoLearn followed by the forum ‘Talents for the Planet’ in February. Thanks to insightful conferences and debates, these 2 events were eye-openers 👀 to me. 🔎 What are my key take-aways? ▶ In the past and when proficiency on #ESG matters was at stake, my first reaction was to consider training on technical topics 👨💻 directly linked to my core expertise as Finance and Audit professional (e.g., EU-CSRD/ESRS, Double Materiality or Taxonomy….). ▶ Yes, these technical trainings 🗂 are needed. And they represent already a nice challenge 🏃♂️ for our community to gain the right level of proficiency 📚 📖 in a short period of time. ▶ This is however the visible part of the Iceberg ⛰. The wider part is under the water, much bigger and much deeper. It is as important as the visible part, and it represents its foundations 🏘. ▶ As such, raising our level of understanding on the basics of ESG issues is, to me, critical. It should help us go beyond 🚀 the pure compliance exercise 👮♂️ required by the new laws but also embrace its ‘Spirit’ 🎯 . ❓ So what? ✔ Leveraging time offered by my current transition phase, I joined a 4 months’ training program proposed by EcoLearn (‘Managing sustainability in organisations’) which aims at mastering the fundamentals behind a sustainable strategy. ✅ After 1 month, I am re-enforced in this first impression that knowing these fundamentals is indeed critical ⚡ . The scope of the training offers a holistic approach. It allows every participant to be familiar with the key concepts, the legal framework, the key challenges around Social and Environmental issues …and much more. 👍 Congratulations to EcoLearn for the quality 🥇 of the training module, for their continuous advice and support. 👉 I look forward to completing the program and hopefully getting certified! 👨🎓 Stay tuned and feel free to share your own views in the comments section below! #ESG, #Ecolearn, #RSE, #Sustainability, Arnaud Herrmann, 🌱 Pierre Montel 🌳, Paul O.

📔 BOOK LAUNCH | "Navigating the Ecological Transition: A Business School Perspective" 🌍 ESSEC Business School is proud to announce the release of "Navigating the Ecological Transition: A Business School Perspective", co-edited by ESSEC professors Hugues Bouthinon-Dumas, Arijit Chatterjee, and BERNARD LECA. This book, out on December 9, is our attempt to bring together the wide gamut of research interests of our colleagues on the common theme of environmental change, providing insights for both business and higher education. It includes chapters from sixteen professors affiliated with six different departments at ESSEC: Management; Accounting and Management Control; Economics;  Information systems, Data analytics, and Operations; Marketing; and Public and Private Policy. 🎓 The book addresses the urgent need for business schools to adapt to the challenges of the Anthropocene. It explores how businesses can rethink traditional models, embrace sustainability, and foster responsible leadership. It also underscores the pivotal role of education in equipping future leaders with tools to create resilient and inclusive business models that prioritize the planet alongside profit. 👉 In Part I of this book Vincenzo Esposito Vinzi, Estefania Santacreu-Vasut, Radu Vranceanu, Stefan Gröschl, and Fabrice Cavarretta focus on the big picture required for a radical change in how both corporates and citizens perceive the necessity for environmental change. 👉 In Part II of the book Adrian Zicari, Mark Christensen, Tom Gamble, and Geneviève Helleringer bring perspectives on sustainability and the need for transparency and accountability.   👉 In Part III of this book on environmental change Xavier Pavie and Emmanuelle Le Nagard trace the path from product and profit to responsible innovation. 👉 In Part IV of the book Laurence DE CARLO, Marie Leandre Gomez, and Viviane de Beaufort put the spotlight on three examples that attempt to achieve a shift towards sustainability and the environmental change. 👉 In Part V of this book Cedomir Nestorovic Nestorovic, Hamid Bouchikhi and Hugues Bouthinon-Dumas write on the energy transition policies in China and Morocco. At ESSEC, we believe that business education must lead the way in transforming how organizations operate in harmony with our environment. We are proud to contribute to this critical dialogue.

🏆 We're excited to support the Accounting for Sustainability (A4S) International Case Competition. This is a great opportunity for students to develop practical sustainability skills and for business schools/universities to embed sustainability into their programmes. This year's competition challenges students to take on the task of corporate decarbonization within the broader context of a fair and just climate transition. The winning team receives CA$10,000 as well as networking opportunities with industry leaders. We know that a well-planned transition can achieve sustainable growth, create new job opportunities and foster social stability. On the other hand, poorly planned transitions can lead to social challenges, including unemployment and civil unrest. Attend an upcoming information session get your questions answered: Register for 10 October 👉 https://lnkd.in/gB3PUr3Y Register for 15 October 👉 https://lnkd.in/geh32d-c 🔗 Learn more and register for the competition here! 👉 https://lnkd.in/eMVhdWmW #a4sicc #studentcompetition #sustainablebusiness

Forming a staff-student Environmental, Social, and Governance (#ESG) committee can be a powerful way for educational institutions to embed #sustainability across their operations. In her article for Times Higher Education, Emily Centeno, Director of Marketing, Recruitment, Admissions, Communications and Event at the ESCP campus in London, outlines a practical guide to establishing an effective ESG committee that ensures sustainability is more than a goal and becomes a shared responsibility. ✅ From strategic alignment to fostering collaboration, she shares steps for creating meaningful impact by involving key voices, especially students, in driving the institution's environmental and social initiatives. More insights here ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/eD3JBSEs

💡 The CEMS Thought Leadership highlights and celebrates, #research & project-based content produced by the CEMS Academic members to fuel conversations around pressing topics in the world today! 💡 🔎 During the pandemic lockdown, The University of Sydney Business School Senior Lecturer Dr Danielle Kent was inspired by Martin Seligman’s “Learned Optimism”, which explores how optimists view challenges as temporary and successes as permanent. This concept sparked the idea of applying optimism to encourage sustainable investment by framing information in a more positive way. Given that #optimists are healthier, more persistent, and happier, Dr Kent wondered if such framing could influence sustainable financial decisions, especially around responsible investment in green funds. Together with colleague Dan Daugaard, the academic conducted an experiment involving over 300 seasoned investment professionals. 📌Read more about this fascinating research here: https://lnkd.in/gZrxEWeS 📌See our Thought Leadership collection here: https://lnkd.in/g68b4aws #CEMSGlobalAlliance #CEMSThoughtLeadership #sustainability

🌍Advancing Corporate Sustainability Performance 🌍   As part of the #CorporateSustainabilityPerformance course I developed and continue to teach in the Executive MBA KSB at the Krakowska Szkoła Biznesu UEK | Krakow School of Business KUE, Krakow University of Economics, I focus on equipping leaders with the frameworks and tools to navigate the complexities of sustainability. One of the foundational concepts we explore is #materiality —a term that has evolved significantly in the context of #CorporateResponsibility. 🔹 Financial Materiality 💵 : The traditional approach, focusing on how external factors like climate risks, regulations, and societal trends impact a company's financial performance.   🔹 Double Materiality 🌐 🫂 : A broader perspective that includes how companies themselves affect the environment and society, addressing critical issues such as human rights, inequality, and resource depletion.   🔹 Triple Materiality 🧬 🍩 : The most expansive view, challenging businesses to assess their contribution to system-wide dynamics, such as climate stability and biodiversity, while ensuring their operations remain within fair and safe planetary boundaries. This progression —from #FinancialResilience to #SystemStewardship—reflects the growing demand for businesses to integrate #environmental, #social, and #governance (#ESG) considerations into their strategies, not as a compliance checkbox, but as a pathway to long-term value creation beyond 'doing no harm,' and responsibility. 🌟 Engaging with these frameworks enables executives to move beyond protecting their business from external forces and toward prospering as a business within ecological and societal thresholds.   I'm proud and humbled to help shape the minds driving this transformation. Feel free to connect if you're curious about these concepts or the broader course! #Sustainability #ExecutiveEducation #Materiality #DoubleMateriality #TripleMateriality #CorporateResponsibility #KrakowSchoolOfBusiness #BeyondDoingNoHarm

It may have taken 30 years, but business schools in Europe are finally leading the charge to integrate #sustainability into #business education #esg #csrd #sdgs