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managers on the EMBA because they have decision-making power in their hands and they can change things.” Rohrbach sums it up when speaking of his admiration for the school’s inclusion of environmental and societal concerns. “I really liked how ethics and sustainability were integrated. Basically, we were taught how to maximise profits in the morning and how to make that sustainable and ethical in the afternoon.” • Leading The Future is a collaborative project between AMBA & BGA and BlackRook Media. Watch the video in full at amba-bga.com/business-school-docuseries
and sustainability represented in all our courses, be it finance or leadership, and not just have separate courses that address these questions, because it’s essential that we give our students the tools to address ethical questions in sustainability.” Burrus, who teaches sustainability innovation, believes that it is particularly important to help students learn how they can disrupt existing sustainability models and move beyond current business cases on the topic. “I think we need to clearly define that sustainability is more important than profitability. I’m really interested and motivated by teaching
INSTIGATING CHANGE Summarising the programme’s impact on students, Schmid Mast touches on the EMBA’s emphasis on responsible management. “Students leave with new views. They come out transformed and they then bring this into the world and make a difference, in terms of sustainability and ethics,” she remarks. “You can’t have an impact on the world without having responsible or ethical leadership,” the HEC Lausanne dean adds. “You can’t do sustainability without being responsible and vice versa. So, what’s important for us is to have ethics
Clockwise from top left: EMBA alumnus Stéphane Rohrbach highlights the programme’s practical takeaways; Chiara von Gunten benefited from the real-world workplace scenarios discussed in class; dean Marianne Schmid Mast is passionate about having ethics and sustainability represented throughout the school’s courses BLACKROOK AT WORK BlackRook Media has delivered documentary video content across EMEA, APAC and LatAm since 2011. As well as its work with AMBA & BGA, BlackRook partners with industry leaders such as Pensions Europe, Sustainable Travel International and the World Bioenergy Association. The company’s event TV teams also offer global editorial and technical services, including live streaming for financial services conference Sibos
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