Great listeners are a launch pad for their interlocutors’ thoughts
instigate change, and they cannot teach sustainability if they do not put it into practice themselves. At MIP, we are committed to propelling sustainable initiatives. The Business School has been awarded the B Corp Certification – a prestigious recognition of an organisation’s commitment to sustainable development and building a more inclusive society. MIP Politecnico di Milano is the first Italian Business School – and the only European School – to have been accredited, and is one of just a few worldwide.
sweeping changes. When considering what is required in response to these challenges, managers point not only to hard skills, but skills such as the capacity to engage people, to understand motivation, and to connect with emotions – especially in highly charged situations. Sustainable leadership involves genuine personal and professional growth, a personal journey
MIP intends to use its status as a Certified B Corporation to accelerate as a sustainable organisation, enhancing educational methods and training programmes on the topics of purpose, sustainability and inclusivity, while continuing to work with companies to achieve the same goals. How did the Covid-19 pandemic change your School for the long term – and what have been your most important lockdown learnings? Despite the pandemic, 2021 represented an important year for our School, as it laid the foundations for some big news. In 2021, our School expanded nationally, starting from the Milano Bovisa campus, our nerve centre, giving life to local hubs in the Veneto, Lazio and
of discovery – not just so that you can make a difference, but so that you can become the difference.
Given the growing climate emergency, do you think businesses, and by extension, Business Schools, have a role a play in helping communities to respond to, and recover from, natural disasters? Business Schools have a responsibility to
B Corp companies form an international community of
organisations with the common goal of combining profit with a search for the collective wellbeing, and caring for the environment and society as a whole.
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