CEMS Magazine | May 2011 Writer: Professor Stefano Pogutz Università Bocconi, Chair of CEMS Business and the Environment Faculty Group
The CEMS Faculty Group “Business and the Environment” annual meeting This year’s annual meeting of the Business and the Environment Faculty Group was hosted by HEC Paris from 17th-18th March. It offered participants the possibility to further develop the debate on “Sustainability in Management Education” and also to design five Block Seminars to be hosted in August-October 2011, in Stockholm, St. Gallen, St. Petersburg/Helsinki, Barcelona and Cologne.
Sustainability in Management Education: Confronting Experiences The meeting started with guest speaker Prof. Bénédicte Faivre-Tavignot, Academic Director of the HEC M.Sc. in Sustainable Development (MISD). Prof. Faivre-Tavignot presented the innovative
Master’s programme that HEC is offering on sustainability and management, analysing the structure and the topics addressed. The presentation was followed by lively debate on how to teach sustainability in business schools, in terms of the issues to cover, pedagogical approaches and field studies and cases. A roundtable ensued, comprising an update on teaching “sustainability and green issues” in CEMS schools. An increase of courses and seminars was registered when compared with the group’s previous meeting. Every attending CEMS school outlined an increased attention toward the topic, including dedicated Master’s programmes (Corvinus, Bocconi, HEC), majors or minors, courses, seminars, and joint experiences such as the CEMS Climate Change strategy role play.
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Perspectives: CEMS Faculty Group Activities in Research and other Initiatives Dr. Hamschmidt presented the “oikos case teaching initiative” 2011 and the “oikos academy” (see the article on pages 32-33). Finally, the topic of avenues for future research in sustainability and environmental issues in business were addressed and a date and venue were set for the following year’s meeting. Prof. Budnikowski (VSE) proposed to host the 2012 Faculty Group meeting in Poland on 30th March.
Participants: Adam Budnikowski (Warsaw School of Economics), Jost Hamschmidt (University of St. Gallen), Sandor Kerekes (Corvinus University of Budapest), Romain Laufer (HEC Paris), Bénédicte Faivre-Tavignot Guestspeaker (HEC Paris), Stefano Pogutz (Università Bocconi), Rafael Sardá (ESADE), Susanne Sweet (Stockholm School of Economics), Daniel Tyteca (Louvain School of Management), Christoph Drechsler, (UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School), Yury Blagov (Graduate School of Management, St.Petersburg) Werner Delfmann, (University of Cologne)