BGA | BUSINESS IMPACT
EDITOR’S LETTER
EDITORIAL
environment is the greatest concern facing modern-day business leaders. Executive director at CEMS Nicole de Fontaines talks through the report in more detail and its lessons for those working on programme offerings and curricula on page 10. “We need to integrate competencies and skills from the core fields with sustainability competencies and skills,” she argues by way of example. BGA, with its focus on sustainability and responsible management, appears well placed to help business schools define and achieve their impact on these global societal concerns. The organisation’s business development manager, Victor Hedenberg, discusses ways in which management education can better serve business and society ( see page eight ). In considering the relative merits of different educational models, he also offers insights into BGA’s ethos and accreditation process. Lastly, for anyone in need of inspiration and examples of best practice, on page 16 we bring you news of the finalists for the BGA Business School Impact Award 2022/23, as well as those shortlisted for AMBA & BGA Excellence Awards 2022/23 in the areas of CSR and sustainability, diversity and inclusion, lifelong learning and more. Tim Banerjee Dhoul, Editor, Business Impact
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Looking after mother Earth
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“There will be no more business if we do not take care of others and the planet.” This strikingly simple sentiment, relayed by Audencia’s José Maillet, is a growing realisation among many in management education. Maillet outlines Audencia’s moves to meet its responsibility towards the global problems associated with climate change and widening inequality in our cover feature ( page 12 ) of this edition of Business Impact . Emphasising the need for multidisciplinary approaches, Maillet explains that Audencia’s new Gaïa school and programme is aiming to help business students to
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better understand the world around us so that taking care of the planet in their thoughts and practice will be second nature to them by the time they graduate and embark on influential careers. For Maillet, the emergency situation in which we find ourselves obliges us to accelerate action in this regard and with “a certain form of radicality”. Taking such an approach certainly chimes with the standout finding of a new report from CEMS: that the “The emergency situation in which we find ourselves obliges us to accelerate action”
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