Management Educators Commit to “Building the Post-2015 Business Engagement Architecture”
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Bled, Slovenia
(Bled, 26 September 2013) – More than 200 members of the responsible management education community convened to discuss the continued creation of a new intellectual, research, teaching and institutional agenda that develops leaders for the future we want. During the two-day 2013 PRME Summit – 5th Annual Assembly, hosted by CEEMAN as 2013 Chair of the PRME Steering Committee and co-organized with the PRME Secretariat, business school leaders, faculty, researchers and students, along with representatives from business, government and civil society engaged in spirited discourse and shared recent learnings from the global landscape of responsible management education.
In the past year, the PRME community has moved into a new stage of increased engagement by launching the PRME Champions leadership group and establishing seven PRME Regional Chapters, with more in development, and by de-listing non-active signatories that fail to regularly submit Sharing Information on Progress (SIP) reports. The community has also urged other stakeholders, including major accreditors and ranking organizations, to fully incorporate responsible management education paradigms into their standards and criteria.
PRME Summit participants unanimously endorsed a Declaration that further supports commitments to sustainable development through management education, made at Rio+20, individually through continuous improvement, experimentation and innovation, and collectively through existing and newly created workstreams and related projects. Participants also committed to take further action, including support for the Architects of a Better World: Building the Post-2015 Business Engagement Architecture unveiled by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and developed by the UN Global Compact, with additional support from the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI).
Resources and deliverables launched on the occasion of the 2013 PRME Summit include the following. For full descriptions, please visit the PRME website.
- Inspirational Case Stories on the Implementation of PRME
- Comprehensive Online Anti-Corruption Toolkit
- Gender Equality Global Resource Repository
- Fighting Poverty through Management Education: Challenges, Opportunities, and Solutions
- 2013 PRME MGSM MBA Student Study
- E-learning Course on CSR, developed in conjunction with the Enel Foundation
Contact
Jonas Haertle
Head, PRME Secretariat
UN Global Compact
haertle@un.org
+1-212 907 1376