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Principles for Responsible Management Education

AVT INSTITUTE OF EXECUTIVE EDUCATION
AMONG FIRST 100 ADOPTORS OF UN PRME

  “The Principles for Responsible Management Education have the capacity to take the case for universal values and business into classrooms on every continent,” said UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in his closing remarks at the 2007 Global Compact Leaders Summit on 6 July 2007.  

AVT Business School has responded as an early adoptor to the global call for business schools and academic associations to advance corporate social responsibility worldwide. The 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. 

When, on 7 April 2008, UN PRME announced the names of the first 100 business schools world-wide to adopt the UN PRME principles, it became clear that AVT was among them - and the only representative from Denmark. Read the UN PRME press-release here.

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. As a framework, the PRME is meant to guide a school’s effort to continuously improve curricula and research with regard to issues of corporate citizenship and sustainability. The PRME are not a substitute of existing accreditation and quality assurance systems. 

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 Aspen Institute’s Business and Society Program, the European Academy for Business in Society (EABIS), the Globally Responsible Leadership Initiative (GRLI) and Net Impact.

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. 

The Principles for Responsible Management Education: 

As institutions of higher learning involved in the education of current and future managers we are voluntarily committed to engaging in a continuous process of improvement of the following Principles, reporting on progress to all our stakeholders and exchanging effective practices with other academic institutions:

Principle 1. Purpose: We will develop the capabilities of students to be future generators of sustainable value for business and society at large and to work for an inclusive and sustainable global economy. 
Principle 2. Values: We will incorporate into our academic activities and curricula the values of global social responsibility as portrayed in international initiatives such as the United Nations Global Compact. 
Principle 3. Method: We will create educational frameworks, materials, processes and environments that enable effective learning experiences for responsible leadership.  
Principle 4. Research: We will engage in conceptual and empirical research that advances our understanding about the role, dynamics, and impact of corporations in the creation of sustainable social, environmental and economic value. 
Principle 5. Partnership: We will interact with managers of business corporations to extend our knowledge of their challenges in meeting social and environmental responsibilities and to explore jointly effective approaches to meeting these challenges.   
Principle 6. Dialog: We will facilitate and support dialog and debate among educators, business, government, consumers, media, civil society organizations and other interested groups and stakeholders on critical issues related to global social responsibility and sustainability. 

About the Principles for Responsible Management Education

The Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) initiative provides a framework for academic institutions to advance corporate social responsibility through the incorporation of universal values into curricula and research. The PRME has been developed by an international task force consisting of sixty deans, university presidents and official representatives of leading business schools and follows from a recommendation of all academic stakeholders of the Global Compact.

The PRME is  coordinated by a Steering Committee constituted of the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB International), the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD), the Aspen Institute’s Business and Society Program, the European Academy for Business in Society (EABIS), the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC), the Globally Responsible Leadership Initiative (GRLI), Net Impact and the United Nations Global Compact, which also hosts the PRME Secretariat. For more information, please visit www.unprme.org.  

 

Principles for Responsible Management Education now endorsed by more than 100 Business Schools

(New York, April 8, 2008) – The Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME), a UN-backed global initiative developed to promote corporate responsibility and sustainability in business education, has now been endorsed by more than 100 business schools and universities from around the world.

Institutions participating in the initiative, which was launched under the patronage of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in July 2007, make a commitment to align their mission and strategy, as well as their core competencies – education, research and thought leadership –, with UN values embodied by the six PRME principles. Actions encouraged under the initiative’s framework include curriculum development around the corporate responsibility agenda and research in support of sustainable management systems, as well as public advocacy and opinion leadership to advance responsible business practices.

“Thanks to the joint outreach by all partners, the PRME initiative has reached this critical milestone of 100 signatories,” said Dr. Manuel Escudero, Head of Academic Initiatives at the UN Global Compact, which is one of the initiative’s co-conveners. Speaking on behalf of the PRME steering committee, Dr. Escudero stressed that “this will enable the initiative to bring good efforts to scale and truly embed the sustainability agenda in the training of future business leaders.”

The Richard Ivey School of Business at The University of Western Ontario has signed onto the principles and has a strong history of sustainability initiatives, including student-led Ivey Connects which is active in environmental and community outreach; Ivey’s Cross-Enterprise Leadership Centre on Building Sustainable Value and sustainability courses in the curriculum.

The PRME Steering Committee includes the UN Global Compact, the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB International), the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD), the Aspen Institute’s Business and Society Program, the European Academy for Business in Society (EABIS), the Globally Responsible Leadership Initiative (GRLI), the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC), and Net Impact.

Following its early outreach and awareness-raising efforts, the initiative is currently establishing several participant working groups to facilitate implementation of the principles and identify best practices. In addition, a Global Forum for Responsible Management Education will be convened on 1-2 December 2008 at UN Headquarters in New York. The event will present a first opportunity to take stock of the PRME initiative so far, to exchange experiences and forge a closer link between the United Nations’ mission and the work of business schools.

For more information about the PRME, please visit www.unprme.org. 

PRME Signatories (in alphabetical order)

  • A.J. Palumbo School of Business and John F. Donahue Graduate School of Business, Duquesne University, USA
  • ALTIS Postgraduate School Business & Society at the Catholic University of Milan, Italy
  • Arthur Lok Jack Graduate School of Business, Trinidad and Tobago
  • Ashridge Business School, United Kingdom
  • Association of Certified Commercial Diplomats, United Kingdom
  • Audencia Nantes School of Management, France
  • AVT Institute of Executive Education, Denmark
  • BA Business and Finance School, Latvia
  • BEM – Bordeaux Management School, France
  • Bentley College, USA
  • BI Norwegian School of Management, Norway
  • CAG University, Turkey
  • Cameron School of Business, University of St. Thomas, USA
  • Carey Business School, Johns Hopkins University, USA
  • Carroll School of Management, Boston College, USA
  • CENTRUM - Centro de Negocios de la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Peru
  • CERAM Business School, France
  • China Europe International Business School (CEIBS), China
  • Coles College of Business, Kennesaw State University, USA
  • College of Business, Illinois State University, USA
  • Cranfield School of Management, United Kingdom
  • Deggendorf University of Applied Sciences, Germany
  • Educatis University, Switzerland
  • EGADE - Graduate School of Business Administration and Leadership, Tecnólogico de Monterrey University System, Mexico
  • ESADE, Spain
  • ESC Bretagne Brest, France
  • ESCP-EAP European School of Management, France
  • ESG UQAM, Canada
  • ESPAE-ESPOL, Ecuador
  • ESSEC Business School, France
  • Euromed Marseille Ecole de Management, France
  • European Business School EBS, Germany
  • European University of Lefke, Turkey
  • Facultad de Administracion, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia
  • Facultad de Ciencias Empresariales, Universidad de San Buenaventura, Colombia
  • Faculty of Management and Law, University of Surrey, United Kingdom
    Fondazione ISTUD, Italy
  • French-Vietnamese Center for Management Education (CFVG), Viet Nam
  • Fundacao Dom Cabral (FDC), Brazil
  • Gdansk Foundation for Management Development, Poland
  • Graduate Management School, State University - Higher School of Economics, Russia
  • Graduate School for Environmental Management, Hosei University, Japan
  • Graduate School of Management, University of California, Davis, USA
  • Grenoble Ecole de Management, France
  • Griffith Business School, Griffith University, Australia
  • Hanken - Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration, Finland
  • Helena Kaushik Women’s P.G. College, India
  • Higher Institute for Management Sciences, Egypt
  • IEDC-Bled School of Management, Slovenia
  • IESE Business School, Spain
  • IESEG School of Management, France
  • IMISP - International Management Institute of St. Petersburg, Russia
  • INCAE Business School, Costa Rica
  • Ingolstadt School of Management at Catholic University Eichstaett-Ingolstadt,
  • Catholic University Eichstaett-Ingolstadt, Germany
  • INSEAD, France
  • Institute of Business Studies (IBS-Moscow), Russia
  • Instituto de Empresa, Spain
  • INT Management, France
  • International Graduate School Zittau, Germany
  • International University College, Bulgaria
  • ISAE/FGV, Fundacao Getulio Vargas, Brazil
  • ISM University of Management and Economics, Lithuania
  • J. Mack Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University, USA
  • John Cook School of Business, St. Louis University, USA
  • John Molson School of Business, Canada
  • Johnson School of Business, Cornell University, USA
  • Jones International University, USA
  • KAIST Business School, South Korea
  • Kogod School of Business, American University, USA
  • Kyiv Mohyla Business School, National University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy, Ukraine
  • La Trobe University Graduate School of Management, La Trobe University, Australia
  • Leon Kozminski Academy of Entrepreneurship and Management, Poland
  • London Business School, United Kingdom
  • McCoy College of Business Administration, Texas State University, USA
  • Mendoza College of Business, University of Notre Dame, USA
  • Nottingham University Business School, Nottingham University, United Kingdom
  • Odette School of Business, University of Windsor, Canada
  • Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management, USA
  • Pforzheim University Business Shool, Germany
  • Postgraduate Institute of Management, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka
  • Queen Mary School of Business and Management, United Kingdom
  • Queen's School of Business, Queen's University, Canada
  • Richard Ivey School of Business, The University of Western Ontario, Canada
  • Rohrer College of Business, Rowan University, USA
  • Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, Netherlands
  • School of Business Administration, University of San Diego, USA
  • School of Business, Baptist University Hong Kong, South Korea
  • School of Economics and Business, Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
  • SDA Bocconi School of Management, Italy
  • Swiss Management Center, Switzerland
  • Talal Abu-Ghazaleh College of Business, German-Jordanian University, Jordan
  • Ted Rogers School of Management, Ryerson University, Canada
  • Thunderbird, The Garvin School of Global Management, USA
  • Tsinghua SEM, China
  • University of Dubai, United Arab Emirates
  • University of Mannheim, Germany
  • University of St. Andrews School of Management, University of St. Andrews, Scotland, United Kingdom
  • University of Stellenbosch Business School, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
  • University of Waikato Management School, New Zealand
  • Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University, USA
  • XLRI Jamshedpur School of Business & Human Resources, India

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