NEWS & INSIGHT
SUSTAINABILITY NOW AN INTEGRAL PART OF THE INSEAD MBA
STACKABLE MiM OFFERS TWO-TIER APPROACH
SCHOOL: IAE Business School, Universidad Austral COUNTRY: Argentina
SCHOOL: Insead COUNTRY: France and Singapore
IAE Business School has announced the creation of a new stackable master’s in management (MiM) programme that aims to provide students with greater flexibility. Aimed at those aged between 21 and 27 who are in the early stages of their professional careers, students also have the option of leaving with a postgraduate specialisation in management (EM) qualification after the first nine months of the programme. The MiM can then be completed in a further year for those who stay on. “We are excited to launch this new programme at IAE and contribute to the careers of young professionals. The programme will provide them with management skills to accelerate their careers, orient themselves in [whichever] areas of the company they want to develop and help professionalise the management of family businesses and new ventures,” remarked programme directors Francisco Díaz Hermelo and Alejandro Terroba. Díaz Hermelo and Terroba are academic director and director of studies respectively at IAE. The MiM programme will comprise 55 per cent face-to-face activities and 45 per cent online activities. The stackable format, meanwhile, means that each participant can custom-build their programme to suit their professional objectives. Students completing the full programme can also choose to focus on digital marketing, digital finance or integral management. The digital marketing track offers an in-depth look at consumer behaviour and new technologies, as well as ways of achieving commercial success through data-driven insights. The digital finance track focuses on the application of new technological innovations, such as blockchain and NoSQL databases. The integral management track, meanwhile, offers a chance for students to pick selected modules from each of the other two tracks and create a personalised track to suits their individual interests. The programme’s first cohort kicks off in August. EB
Insead is upping its provision of sustainability teaching in management education with the launch of its latest MBA curriculum upgrade. Starting in January 2024, the school’s flagship programme will embed sustainability into all 14 of its core courses. It will also feature a mandatory capstone project in which students must integrate sustainability learnings across all management areas. This is the first update to the Insead MBA since the launch of a personalised leadership coaching programme in 2017. Discussing the change, Insead dean and professor of economics Ilian Mihov said: “Business schools have an important role in cultivating future leaders. At Insead, we strive to provide our MBA students with rigorous and relevant business education to develop them into responsible leaders who will not only deliver prosperity, but also embrace sustainable practices to lead businesses that are a force for good.” The school says that the new curriculum completes its process of incorporating sustainability topics into its MBA by redefining sustainability in business as the integration of social and environmental issues into business decisions and embedding a learning objective related to sustainability in all its MBA core courses. In addition to the core, there are new electives available to the school’s MBA students on topics relating to sustainability, such as those on energy transition finance and thoughtful consumption. In total, there are now 75 electives on offer in the programme with a plan to add new courses every six months to ensure coverage of the latest business practices. The school’s dean of degree programmes Urs Peyer highlighted the importance of helping students to acquire the ability to “make the right choices” in their future careers. “When they make and create solutions for a business, they will take into account the social and environmental impact. When they lead a business and appreciate the financial performance, they [will] also keep progress in mind.” Insead also recently announced the appointment of Francisco Veloso as its new dean, taking over from Mihov in September. Veloso has served as dean of Imperial College Business School since 2017. TBD
Ambition | JUNE 2023 | 11
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