AACSB Affinity Group

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AACSB Affinity Group

• AACSB Affinity Group created from AACSB members
  or Board, on a topic of Common Interest
• Decided by the Board (March 24th, 2008)
• Deals with any issues as whished by the members
  related to the topic
• Chair(s) decided by the Board
• Carolyn Woo (Notre Dame, USA)
• Pierre Tapie (ESSEC, Paris-Singapore)

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AACSB Affinity GroupsObjectives

• Address own environments to encourage future
  leaders to become globally responsible citizens,
  as part of our institutional mission, and develop
  the appropriate framework of reference as
  intellectual corpus to sustain this development
• Promote PRME among AACSB members
• Share ideas and best practices among members of
  the affinity group
• Network among institutions worldwide who have
  adopted the PRME
• Contribute to the information exchange between
  PRME schools within AACSB and UN Global Compact,
  the PRME Secretariat.

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PRME Statement

• 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 and their application,
  reporting on progress to all our stakeholders and
  exchanging effective practices with other
  academic institutions

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• 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 ans 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.

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• 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
• Dialogue We will facilitate and support dialogue
  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.
• We understand that our own organizational
  practices
• should serve as example of the values and
  attitudes
• we convey to our students.

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Scope spirit

• Principles for inspiration Benchmark
• Autoevaluation and self declaration
• Vast scope and inclusivess
• Reports on Progress
• Best practices

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On behalf of the United National Global Compact
Office and AACSB Board of Directors, we are
writing to invite you and your academic
institution to consider becoming a signatory of
the Principles for Responsible Management
Education (PRME). The PRME is an effective
framework for leading business schools to advance
the broader cause of corporate social
responsibility. The principles constitute a truly
global call for the incorporation of universal
values into curricula and research and can guide
a school's efforts to continuously improve in
these critical areas. AACSB International
participated in the development of each of the
six principles of the PRME, and attended the UN
Global Compact Leaders Summit in July 2007 to
formally present the PRME to the UN
Secretary-General.  At the summit, UN
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in his closing
remarks, "the Principles for Responsible
Management Education have the capacity to take
the case for universal values and business into
classrooms on every continent."
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AACSB International is a member of the PRME
Steering Committee, along with 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 hosts the
PRME Secretariat. We believe that the change
agents of the PRME initiative will ultimately be
individual business schools, engaged in a
continuous change process toward achieving the
goals set out by the PRME. 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.
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UN GC Working Groups

• "How to Get Started" - this Working Group will
  be Chaired by the EFMD
• "Curriculum Change"  - Chaired by AACSB and
  co-chaired by EABIS and Aspen Institute BSP.
• "Research and PRME" - Chaired by the Global
  Compact Office (GCO) and co-chaired by the Aspen
  Institute BSP
• "New learning Methodologies and PRME", Chaired by
  the GCO
• "Reporting to Stakeholders" - Chaired by GRLI

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AACSBAffinity GroupApril 14th, 2008

• List of PRIME AACSB Schools
• Forthcoming Events
• Academy of Mngt (August), UNGC PRME (Dec 1st
  2nd), AACSB Sustainability Conference in Utah
  (July 30th 31st)
• Successful practices of PRME implementation
• Website/list for sharing of ideas
• Participation to the UN PRME working groups
• Challenges, questions, suggestions for AACSB
  Affinity Group agenda ?

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PRME at Hawaïi