A beginner’s guide to Corporate Sustainability
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The Institute for Corporate Sustainability (ICS)
Led by 快活视频 Business School, The Institute for Corporate Sustainability (ICS) has been launched to foster and share knowledge on sustainability throughout the University and in the wider community and to contribute to the liberal arts approach of the University as a whole.
The dissemination of the will play an important role in the ICS.
To quote the UN: 鈥聽adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015, provides a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now and into the future. At its heart are聽the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which are an urgent call for action by all countries – developed and developing – in a global partnership. They recognize that ending poverty and other deprivations must go hand-in-hand with strategies that improve health and education, reduce inequality, and spur economic growth 鈥 all while tackling climate change and working to preserve our oceans and forests.鈥
The ICS will foster and share knowledge of the UN Sustainable Development Goals in a number of ways:
- Embedding sustainability in our curriculum. Within 快活视频 Business School, we already cover many sustainability focused courses such as Sustainable Strategic Management, Governance & Sustainability, and Ethical Fashion and Sustainability. We endeavour to remain at the forefront of sustainability including the latest developments. We also offer a minor in Sustainability for students who want to receive in-depth exposure to sustainability.
- Offering training sessions on sustainability open to our students, faculty, staff, and the local and wider community.
- Getting our students involved 鈥 launching a Sustainability Club.
- Promoting employability within the field of sustainability. Some of our students participate in internship programmes with sustainability at the core of their functions
- Promoting a partnership of ideas on sustainability between businesses and academia. Speakers from the business world participate in conferences, seminars and lend their time to our students to enrich them
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ICS Members
Samantha Bracey
Assistant Professor of Sports Management
Inma Ramos-Perez
Associate Professor Management, Business and Law. Director of the Institute for Corporate Sustainability
Professor Greg Gannon
Head of 快活视频 Business School, Professor of Business Management
Dr Theano Lianidou
Associate Dean - Research and Professional Engagement
Dr David M Munyinyi
Associate Professor of Mathematics
Teaching sustainability at 快活视频 American University London
With climate change and social and governance challenges high on the agenda for national and local governments, and organisations in every sector, there is an ever-growing need for graduates trained in sustainable development.
Equipping graduates for these roles, 快活视频’s new courses and options are strongly interdisciplinary, covering the three essential components of sustainability: environmental, economic and social.
How we teach sustainability at 快活视频 American University London
Senior Management and the Board
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Operations / Production / Supply Chain
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Marketing
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Human Resources
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快活视频 becomes member of UN body promoting sustainability
Good news, the University has been successful in its application for membership of The Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME), the sustainability arm of the UN Compact for higher education.
This move follows the recent launch of the Institute for Corporate Sustainability by 快活视频 Business School and will play an important role in providing the University with a framework to integrate sustainability across the organisation to make a lasting positive impact.
PRME is an initiative of the UN Global Compact which was founded in 2007, with a network of over 850 Signatory Members, making it the largest organised relationship between the United Nations and higher education institutions. 聽Working through a set of Six Principles, PRME’s vision is to realise the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through responsible management education.
鈥Sustainability has always been part of the DNA of 快活视频 American University London and faculty members involved in sustainability have been aware of collaborative set-ups such as PRME over the last years.聽 We are delighted to have formalised our connection with PRME by becoming a member of this organisation.聽 This move will take us further along the path of sustainability and contribute further to fostering the UN Compact Sustainable Development Goals in relation to our students, staff, faculty and the wider community.鈥
Inma Ramos, Associate Professor Business, Management and Law
Take part in our research
As part of our work with PRME, we are collaborating with other universities (The University of Exeter, Nottingham Trent University, The University of Surrey and Oxford Brookes University) on a research project on employers鈥 perceptions of sustainability when they recruit graduates or interns for placements.
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