PRME Academic Institutions
Details for London Business School
Communicating Participant
Type of Organization
Business School
Type of Education
Post graduate, Doctoral, Executive
Institution is part of
Not Available
Location
London, United Kingdom
Website
Sharing Information on Progress (2010)
Achievements Curriculum Integration in the Field of Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability
As a relatively small school with a potentially huge impact on current and future business leaders, we are striving to establish an efficient and effective approach to raising business leaders’ capacity to understand and manage the business-society relationship.
All of our full-time MBA students and our executive MBA students in London and Dubai enjoy a core course in corporate responsibility and ethics. This provides approximately 700 students a year with an overview of why and how to manage extra-financial elements of business performance, including issues ranging from corporate governance to global poverty to climate change.
We offer successful electives taught by award-winning faculty members in areas such as social enterprise and sustainable financing. We have a growing number of students choosing to do examined projects on aspects of corporate responsibility. There are also electives at London Business School and its sister institution, the University College of London, on topics such as social enterprise, sustainability, and climate change.
In addition to formal teaching, we believe that students need to come into contact with aspects of corporate responsibility and sustainability outside of the classroom. Our students are engaged in various aspects of corporate responsibility. The Responsible Business Club not only runs regular events on facets of corporate responsibility from microfinance to sustainability, it also provides advice to young social entrepreneurs, and is part of the entrepreneurship community in London. The Energy Club holds frequent events about alternative energy and other aspects of the low carbon economy. The Volunteering Club facilitates opportunities for students.
Achievements Research Development in the Field of Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability
The school hosts the European rounds of the Global Social Venture Capital Competition. It is also a partner in the Pears Foundation Business Schools Partnership promoting a culture of philanthropy, public service and corporate responsibility amongst business leaders of the future. This is the latest in our work producing high quality teaching materials on ethics, corporate responsibility and sustainability, following on from our lead role in the book of case studies, Mainstreaming Corporate Responsibility, and the publication of Corporate Responsibility: a critical introduction (OUP) by one of our faculty.
Our faculty are also involved in research and corporate engagement in environmental, social and governance issues. We are host to the British government-funded research on climate change energy policy, and a major Centre on Corporate Governance. Other faculty from the Dean to professors of finance, organisational behaviour, marketing and innovation have published on aspects of the role of business in society, and indeed the role of the business school.
