on what makes people more inclined to adopt sustainability practices. In so doing, it introduced them to the 12 principles of the sustainability mindset. Not only did this course provide a space to share best practices and prepare our faculty to implement new classroom activities and experiential exercises, but it also gave them the opportunity to re ect on the degree to which they themselves experience the principles. We plan to take our work further in this area with the Sustainability Mindset Indicator – a tool produced by this group that can generate an individual’s sustainability mindset pro le. Working group on climate change and environment : Here, we were able to co-design a Spanish-language version of the PRME’s Carbon Literacy Training, with instructors Evelyne Gross and Fabrice Galia. The course was taken by professors from Tecnológico de Monterrey’s undergraduate school of business, as well as Egade, as part of a pilot ‘train the trainer’ initiative. It was also linked to an assessment and certi cation from the Carbon Literacy Project. Working group on sustainable nance : This group enabled valuable exchanges of knowledge and experiences among both professors and students that Egade’s commitment to PRME led us to expand our o ering of specialised courses on subjects relating to sustainability. While the school’s MBA has always o ered a mandatory capstone course on ethics, social responsibility and sustainability, we introduced three new sustainability courses on conscious marketing, business strategies for sustainability and the circular economy as part of a redesign in 2020. We then added two more, of which one is on the future of capitalism, o ered through our links to Shizenkan University in Japan and Iese Business School in Spain. The second is taught by the FEMSA-distinguished university professor of conscious enterprise at Egade, Raj Sisodia. Our sustainability teaching also extends to executive education, with programmes equipping business leaders to help their organisations tackle sustainability challenges. For instance, we developed a climate governance course in partnership with Chapter Zero Mexico. Its focus is on SDG13 (climate action), a goal that has seen little progress according to this year’s global stocktake report from the UN Global Compact and Accenture – an urgent subject for Mexico, considering current issues a ecting the country, have expertise or interest in this area. Expansion of programmes
Christiane Molina Brockmann is a research professor in the Strategy and Leadership Department at Egade Business School, part of the Tecnológico de Monterrey. She currently teaches strategic management and corporate sustainability to MBA students. Molina’s research has been published in Business & Society and Advances in International Management
“PRME promotes student engagement in sustainability-related activities such as the PRME Global Student initiative”
such as water shortages brought on by drought and hurricane damage. In addition, we have developed a diploma consisting of three di erent courses together with digital learning platform Emeritus. Topics covered include the foundations of sustainability, circular economy and sustainable nance. Initiating research Being a part of the PRME Champions group has provided fertile ground for collaborative cross-country studies. During the 2019-20 cycle that was extended until 2022, researchers from La Trobe (Australia), Universidad Externado (Colombia), Isae (Brazil) and Egade co-designed a project addressing the issue of unemployment during the rst months of Covid-19 and are now in the nal stages of publishing the report. As part of PRME’s Latin America and the Caribbean chapter, Egade has also established strong connections with like-minded institutions in the region. This has given rise to research projects including a study of current business practices against bribery. Members of the regional chapter also participate in a study of student and faculty perceptions of sustainability at higher education institutions. Another current research initiative, entitled Digni ed Living Standard, is aligned with SDG8. The project is multidisciplinary and brings researchers from Egade together with those from Tecnológico
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