AMBA's Ambition magazine: Issue 41, March 2021

AMBITION | BE IN BRILLIANT COMPANY

Which of the following areas do you believe would enable Business Schools to maximise their impact in helping to avert climate change? (Participants could select up to two responses.)

Which, if any, of the following activities does your Business School conduct to help alleviate climate change?

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KEY FINDINGS • 69% of Business School leaders agree that the planet’s climate is changing and think human activity is the main driver of this change.

managers should play in contributing to climate change prevention, the mean score was 5.9.

• 46% believe Business Schools need significant funding to support research into the relationship between business management and climate change prevention in order to maximise their impact in this area. • 87% of Business School leaders think that business is capable of finding the solutions to tackle climate change; 40% strongly believe that this is the case. • 51% of Business School leaders have either changed their behaviour ‘a great deal’ or ‘a fair amount’ in the past six months to lessen their impact on the environment. But 48% have not changed their behaviour ‘very much’ or ‘at all’.

• 71% believe that the impact of climate change on their lives will be negative.

• 65% of Business School decision makers think their own School’s current role in working to prevent further climate change is ‘excellent’, ‘very good’, or ‘fairly good’. • When Business School leaders were asked to rate their programmes out of 10 in terms of how effectively they thought their teaching was in covering the role that

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