2008-05-12

The IIB has joined to the global initiative "Principles for Responsible Management Education"

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The International Institute of Business has responded to the global call for business schools and academic associations to advance corporate social responsibility worldwide. The business school has committed to adhere to the Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME), which were unveiled by a group of scholars and leading academic organization at the UN Global Compact Leaders Summit in July of 2007.

The Principles for Responsible Management Education provide a framework for academic institutions to advance the broader cause of corporate social responsibility and incorporate universal values into curricula and research.

 

The initiative was developed by an international task force of sixty deans, university presidents and official representatives of leading business schools. It was co-convened by the United Nations Global Compact, the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB International), the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD), the European Academy for Business in Society (EABIS) and others.

In its first year of development, the initiative seeks to give adopting academic institutions a leading role: to define a set of good practices on implementation and reporting of the PRME. This will set the ground for a Global Forum of Responsible Management Education to be convened by the end of 2008, where business schools and academic institutions that have adopted the principles will be the main actors.

For more information, please visit www.unprme.org.

 

 

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