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business world, business opportunities, the sharing of open job offers and much more. BEST CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY INITIATIVE Lagos Business School, Pan-Atlantic University (Nigeria) for ‘LBS Sustainability Centre (LBSSC)’ Lagos Business School (LBS) is passionate about sustainability and good governance. The commitment to sustainability of its continuous improvement policies is achieved through an established centre, the LBS Sustainability Centre (LBSSC). A core pillar of the LBS MBA experience is building professional ethics and community service. In line with this, MBA participants take part in both corporate social responsibility and personal social responsibility activities geared towards developing sustainable solutions to specific social problems faced by target communities. BEST BUSINESS SCHOOL PARTNERSHIP, SPONSORED BY BLUE PRISM Lancaster University Management School, Lancaster University (UK) with Transnational Academic Group The partnership between Lancaster University Management School (LUMS) and Transnational Academic Group (TAG) has been highly successful since its formation in 2014. From the start, the partnership has offered a flexible and extremely popular executive MBA serving the West Africa region. This has been followed by other business degree programmes as well as the creation of opportunities for personal development, research, engagement and community benefits for the region. Having an AMBA-accredited MBA provider in Ghana has been attractive for a burgeoning professional population in West Africa which has seen more than 100 students graduate with this prestigious qualification. BEST CULTURE, DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION INITIATIVE, SPONSORED BY ADVENT GROUP Imperial College Business School, Imperial College London (UK) for ‘Working in Diverse Organisations’ Business Schools’ approaches to diversity need to evolve. A multi-faceted approach to bias, cultural awareness, and systems of privilege is demanded by both students and stakeholders. Imperial College Business School has embraced this challenge by launching a year-long equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) course, which is essential for all students. ‘Working in Diverse Organisations’ offers the latest EDI learnings and toolkits to enable students to be diverse- aware employees and leaders that are able to optimise differences and create more effective organisations.
The ceremony for the AMBA & BGA Excellence Awards 2021 was held virtually on 29 January 2021 and brought
together leading lights from the global business education community to celebrate excellence and commend achievement. In total, more than 300 Business School leaders, as well as category finalists, judges and members of the media attended. The awards themselves garnered a record number of entries across 11 categories, representing all six continents, and the competition was stronger than ever. The winners of the AMBA & BGA Excellence Awards 2021 are as follows:
BEST INNOVATION STRATEGY, SPONSORED BY BARCO TBS Business School (formerly known as Toulouse Business School) (France) for ‘Teaching through comedy: injecting humour into educational videos’ At a time of unprecedented worldwide demand both for quality e-learning resources and for cheerfulness, TBS Business School is addressing both through its collaboration with acclaimed comedian, Sammy Obeid, (former teacher, graduate of Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley and host of 100 Humans on Netflix). The School has released more than a dozen humorous educational videos (each with an instructor’s note), both before and during the Covid-19 crisis. It is continuing its production in parallel with conducting research into the role of humour in business education and outreach to business academia so that others can adopt and build on its experience. BEST LIFELONG LEARNING INITIATIVE, SPONSORED BY STUDIOUS DIGITAL EDUCATION Mannheim Business School, University of Mannheim (Germany) By founding MBS Network Clubs in November 2018, Mannheim Business School has taken the important next strategic step in its still-young history. Since their founding, the School’s Clubs have proven to be a powerful platform for linking all stakeholders in the Mannheim Network: students, alumni, corporate partners, professors, and other institutions. In this way, the School has created a strong cohesion in its community, from which a wide range of profit- generating points arise: the continuous creation and sharing of knowledge and the latest trends from the
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