AMBA & BGA EXCELLENCE AWARDS
BGA Student of the Year
WINNER: Aurora d'Alonzo, POLIMI Graduate School of Management (GSoM), Italy
A decade into her working life, d'Alonzo embarked on a career change with the help of POLIMI GSoM’s international master’s in sustainability management & CSR, where she excelled in both curricular and extracurricular activities. A leading student representative in continuous improvement initiatives organised by the school’s careers and programmes teams, d'Alonzo is now on its Impact Committee and serves as an ESG project manager at a consulting firm. Looking back at her return to education, she remarked: “While it may have seemed like a step back to many, I saw it as a conscious leap forward, driven by purpose, curiosity and a deep commitment to sustainability.”
A recent graduate of POLIMI Graduate School of Management in Milan, Aurora d'Alonzo was crowned BGA Student of the Year at a gathering of more than 200 members of the global business education community in London. Meanwhile, the School of Economics and Management at Narxoz University in Kazakhstan held off challenges from schools in the UK, China, India and Peru to win the annual BGA Business School Impact Award. Members of BGA’s global community also claimed the top prize in four of the remaining nine categories open to BGA institutions. The dual-accredited institutions, MIM-Kyiv and King’s Business School won the coveted diversity and startup awards, respectively. Elsewhere, GITAM School of Business – a BGA member school based in India – came out ahead of some prestigious institutions to win the lifelong learning award, while the accolade for best partnership went to the AMBA-accredited and BGA member institution, Adam Smith Business School in Scotland. Full details of the awards follow opposite and overleaf. Aurora d'Alonzo’s momentous decision to return to education led to her being named BGA Student of the Year
More than 200 members of the global business education community attended the prestigious event
BGA Business School Impact Award
WINNER: School of Economics and Management (SEM), Narxoz University, Kazakhstan for the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) integration initiative Embedding CIM professional certification into the marketing curriculum at Narxoz SEM has helped the school align its offerings with international standards and bridge the gap between academia and industry. In addition, it more than doubled student employability among those who completed CIM modules and led to the incorporation of additional modules on AI
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