The earlier generation of scholars were “groundbreakers,” according to Dahlmann, who raised sustainability as a legitimate topic for leading academic journals. shares some of the latest green shifts at a few of the top schools on our #BetterWorldMBA ranking: /L5E1MlQ1Boįrederik Dahlmann, associate professor of strategy and sustainability at the Warwick Business School said: “Now more than ever is the best time to be involved in this area.” There have been some promising signs of progress in business education of late.
The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), ranking 21st globally, is Asia’s best performing MBA programme on this ranking. Canada’s Schulich School of Business and the UK’s University of Bath School of Management round up the top three. This accounts for five percent.īy these measures, Warwick Business School takes the top spot again this year, the second consecutive time it has done so. Racial diversity: Percentage of the school’s faculty members who can be identified by photo, name and or biography as clearly not part of the country’s majority race or ethnic group. Gender diversity: The percentage of faculty members who are women out of the total number of faculty members, accounting for five percent.ĥ. These account for 30 percent and 20 percent respectively.Ĥ. The number of peer-reviewed publications in academic journals in 2018 (calendar year) that was authored or co-authored by a faculty member of a business school and the number of citations that are considered as part of “sustainable development”. The number of research institutes and centres “that are fully or substantially dedicated to areas of sustainable development”. List of topics considered as part of “sustainable development” include those containng keywords such as Agro-Biodiversity, Carbon Markets, Eco-Citizen, etc.Ģ. Accounting for 30 percent, this is determined by looking at the course description available on the programme’s website.
How core courses integrate relevant sustainable development themes. “Employers are hungry for graduates with that value added of sustainability.” 10 of the best business schools for the world are right here in Canada, with sustainability considerations in their core courses via /riYF3nabgaįor this particular ranking, business schools are measured on how they encourage future business leaders to contribute to building a better, more sustainable world through the following five indicators:ġ. Assessing what are termed as “Sustainable” or “Green” MBAs, the Toronto-based B Corp looks at how programmes are prioritising environmental and social impacts first, before profits.
Hardly any emphasis is given to their potential impact on the planet or the integration of sustainability programmes in their course or research, despite being an issue deeply cared about among students today.Ĭorporate Knights’ recently published Better World MBA ranking is one ranking that bucks this trend. Most MBA rankings assess criteria narrowly confined alone the lines of alumni salaries after graduation, how they compare to their pre-MBA earnings, employment rates or career progression.