The 3rd Annual Teaching Business and Human Rights Workshop, co-sponsored by Columbia Law School Human Rights Institute and the Columbia Institute for the Study of Human Rights, will take place at Columbia University in New York on Thursday and Friday, May 30-31, 2013. PRME will participate in a session targeting management educators. Please see the following message from the organizers:

This year’s Workshop will open on Thursday evening with a talk by Michael Posner and an informal dinner gathering for participants. Friday’s agenda includes a mix of topics aimed at individuals teaching the subject in different settings worldwide, with a focus on practical teaching strategies. Like previous Workshops, our goal is to provide an opportunity for teachers to share strategies and discuss issues of common concern. Each agenda item will be moderated with a few participants asked to make brief presentations. We have reached out to a number of participants already. Please contact one of us if you would like to present.

Last year’s Workshop convened thirty instructors. This year, we can accommodate up to forty participants. (We have about twelve confirmed participants so far.) In the event we reach capacity before the RSVP date, we will send out a notification that registration has closed. We anticipate having dial-in listening capacity for the morning sessions for those unable to attend in person. Sessions will be recorded, but live video streaming will not be available this year. Our next communication will include the confirmed participant list and any dial-in details.  

If you will attend the Workshop and have not already done so, please provide the information in the attached registration form and e-mail it by Friday, May 17^th to: Greta Moseson (Program Coordinator, Columbia Law School Human Rights Institute), greta.moseson@law.columbia.edu. There is no cost to attend the Workshop. Participants must cover their own travel costs. (Information on area hotels is available here:http://www.campustravel.com/university/columbia/)

The online Forum established after last year’s Workshop has grown to include more than 120 individuals teaching business and human rights in twenty countries. If you would like to participate in the online Forum and have not received login information, let us know so we can generate an automated invitation (from “basecamphq.com”).

A valuable feature of the Forum and Workshop is the exchange and discussion of course syllabi. There are currently twenty-eight syllabi (list attached) available to participants who have submitted their own, on a password-protected site at: http://www.law.columbia.edu/human-rights-institute/events/teachingbusinessandhrs. If you would like to submit, replace, or remove your syllabus, please contact Greta Moseson (greta.moseson@law.columbia.edu).

We look forward to another stimulating Workshop hope you can join us in New York this year. 

Anthony Ewing

aewing@law.columbia.edu

Lecturer in Law

Columbia Law School

Joanne Bauer

jjb71@columbia.edu

Adjunct Professor

Columbia University

PRME Steering Committee Chair CEEMAN is pleased to announce the opening of registration for its International Management Teachers Academy (IMTA), to take place 2-14 June 2013 in Bled, Slovenia. 

IMTA provides a unique opportunity for young faculty to develop their curricula, course design, teaching materials and particularly teaching skills and methods. The program is heavily based on the case method, including teaching with cases, case writing, and performance evaluation and feedback to students. It is also designed to improve competences and skills integral to specific managerial disciplines, and provides input essential in other areas of a faculty member's professional life, such as consulting, institution development and administration, and social responsibility.

The disciplinary tracks for Week 2 of IMTA 2013 include: Accounting, Finance, Marketing, Strategy, Leadership and Change, and for this first time Business in Society with Tony F. Buono from PRME Signatory Bentley University, USA.

More

The 19^th CEEMAN Case Writing Competition 2013, since 2007 being held in cooperation with Emerald Group Publishing, has twofold objectives: (a) to develop relevant case material for the transition and emerging economies and change-related issues and (b) to develop case writing capabilities in dynamically changing environments. The winners and runners-up will be awarded at the 21^st CEEMAN Annual Conference. Submissions are now open until June 3rd.

This upcoming webinar will introduce the UN Global Compact's Sustainable Supply Chains resources and workstreams, such as traceability and anti-corruption. Presenters from Infosys and Telenor, two of the business members of the UNGC Advisory Group on Supply Chain Sustainability, will outline their experience. Further, we will explore ideas for collaboration between business and academia on supply chain sustainability, and address possibilities for collaborative projects. Register here

The webinar will take place on 7 June 2013, 10-11am NYC time

1st PRME Canada Regional Meeting: Call for Papers

e^3 = earth education economics

MacEwan School of Business is hosting the 1st PRME Canada Regional Meeting, co-convened by the University of Guelph College of Management & Economics and the John Molson School of Business at Concordia University, with the objective of creating a forum for business academics to share their experiences in teaching and research on the integration of the PRME principles into the curricula and scholarship of business schools. We invite submissions of empirical and conceptual papers, cases and teaching best practices in the following topics (but not limited to):

• Earthonomics as a new framework for management research and practice
• Social return
• Triple bottom line
• How to incorporate PRME into firm strategy?
• What do our students value and how can firms change to attract and retain this new generation and ecome an “employer of choice”?
• Responsible leadership
• Sustainability and sustainable business practices
• Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
• Corporate governance
• Gender diversity (i.e. at the Board of Directors)
• Human equality
• Business ethics
• Ethical marketing
• Ethical supply chain management (ethical implications of outsourcing decisions, etc.)

Call for Papers

This call for papers asks the following question: How can business schools develop future leaders that support, promote and incorporate the PRME principles into the mainstream business model? The theme of the conference emphasizes the need for integration “e3 = earth, education, economics”, with education being the critical factor in the equation.

Authors of the best research paper submissions will be eligible for publication in the International Journal of Business Governance and Ethics (IJBGE). Authors of the best undergraduate paper submissions will be eligible for publication in the Earth Common Journal. The author of the best paper will be awarded $500.00. The due date for this final draft is April 15, 2013. Please send submissions to e3@macewan.ca.

Conference

The conference will begin with a welcome dinner/reception on Tuesday June 11, 2013, with the main day of conference activities taking place on Wednesday June 12, 2013. The 1st PRME Canada Regional Meeting will be hosted by MacEwan University in Edmonton, Alberta.

Registration

Registration will open Feb 19, 2013 and can be accessed via the conference website at: www.macewan.ca/e3

Registration is open to anyone, including students, professors, academics, nonacademics, and business professionals. Attendees are not required to submit scholarly work; however, they are strongly encouraged to do so. Our school is offering students (undergraduate, graduate, and post-doctoral students) a scholarship to cover the expenses of the conference and accommodations. More information about the conference, accommodations and the City of Edmonton can be found on the conference website.

Learn more about the conference and view the full Call for Papers.

IMTA-International Management Teachers Academy – a major European faculty development program aimed at developing a new generation of management professors for the new generation of business leaders - introduces for the first time a new disciplinary track on Business in Society. IMTA has already educated close to 450 management faculty from 37 countries around the world. The two-week program, run by prominent international faculty, is structured around the multiple role of faculty as teachers, researchers, consultants and institution administrators and leaders. The program offers participants to go deep into teaching philosophy and strategy, places a special emphasis on the case method and social responsibility of faculty, and enables them  to improve skills related to general aspects of teaching and management development and those that are discipline-specific (strategy, marketing, finance, accounting, operations management, leadership and change management, entrepreneurship and for the first time Business in Society with Tony F. Buono from Bentley University, USA). Special scholarships are available for participants from Latin America and Africa

TBLI (Triple Bottom Line Investment) CONFERENCE™ is the prime annual global networking and learning event on Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) and Impact Investing.

❖ Theme for 2013: "Rethink the Past and Move On" ❖

Over the past fifteen years, with gatherings in Europe and Asia, TBLI CONFERENCE has become the largest global gathering of financial professionals interested in learning about ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) and Impact Investment. The Conference has built an international reputation for bringing together thought leaders from the financial sector for two days of roundtables and workshops on a multitude of topics in sustainable investment. It provides opportunities for attendees to meet, network, learn and develop new business opportunities.

June 2013 will mark TBLI CONFERENCE’s inaugural event in the United States.

More than 60 speakers from around the world will share their extensive expertise and experience with an international audience of 300-400 asset owners, asset managers, rating and research experts, NGOs, Foundations, Acadenics, and other financial professionals in the sector.

TBLI is a battery charger event. It’s an event that makes you realize how outdated your thinking has become. It is a crash course, a mini green investing MBA. It’s an energizing place—it’s got a critical role in diffusing the best practice. -Leo Johnson, Co-Founder of Sustainable Finance Limited

In the two day Conference, a broad array of ESG and Impact Investing related topics will be covered, including portfolio strategies for integrating ESG; ESG and Latin America; private equity, emerging markets, and many asset classes of impact investment, including infrastructure, energy, forestry, and green building. This year's focus is on climate change and on developments in impact measurement, addressed in two roundtable sessions and in the Keynote speech by Richard L. Kauffman, Chairman for Energy Policy and Finance for the State of New York - Governor of New York's Office and Cabinet.

Visit the agenda for the latest information on the program. Register here to attend the Conference.

Sponsorship opportunities are available. Please contact the Conference organsers below for more information.

Conference Director
Frank Stevens (Amsterdam)
frank@tbligroup.com
+31 (0)20 428 6752

Sponsorships and Business Development
Libby Parella (New York)
libby@tbliconference.com
+1917-202-5165

The 2nd PRME Latin America Regional Meeting will be hosted by CENTRUM Católica Graduate Business School on 18-20 June in Lima, Peru.

"Innovating Global Action for Responsible Leadership in Business Education"

An Advising Committee for the event is made up of the two co-organizers, CENTRUM and the PRME Secretariat, and representatives from IAE Business School in Argentina, Fundação Getulio Vargas and Fundação Dom Cabral in Brazil, and EGADE Business School in Mexico. The meeting will be supported by the Global Compact Regional Center for Latin America. The purpose of the meeting will be to share innovations, practices, new initiatives and new ideas and to devise actions for strengthening responsible leadership in business education in Latin America and the Caribbean.

The meeting will bring together leading Latin American and international business schools, Deans and professors, businesspeople, researchers and practitioners to share their knowledge and expertise, offer answers to and explore new avenues for addressing the pressing questions and issues related to Responsible Business Education in the world, and to support Industry in its change towards responsible leadership. It will also address the creation of a Latin America and Caribbean Chapter of the PRME, which will strengthen collaborative links in responsible leadership amongst business schools in the region.

Overview of Sub-Themes

• Global business ethics, responsibility, and sustainability as a competitive advantage in future markets.
• Knowledge needs to transform “business as usual” in LAC: The needs from companies.
• Businesses as drivers for responsible leadership and management change.
• New models of responsible leadership and management education in culturally diverse countries in LAC.
• Successful practices for deepening responsible leadership and management at Business Schools.

Register now for this year's meeting on the event webpage: English, Español, Português. For more information, please see the agenda and contact LACMeeting@pucp.pe.

The 1st PRME Latin American Regional Meeting was held in December 2011 at IAE Business School in Buenos Aires.

More details will be posted as available.

We look forward to seeing you in Lima in June.

Revealing new ways and best practices in sustainability and corporate responsibility the Sustainability Conference highlights b-school efforts to further serve local and global communities. Join a diverse group of experts and educators to discuss how you can lead sustainability efforts at your institution.

Location: Washington, DC, USA

The seminar will explore, in consistent and systematic steps, the transmission of ethical knowledge that can be effectively integrated into strategic management, operational decision making, and in the development of organisations in general. 

The meeting will take place at AESE, Lisbon, Portugal.

CEEMAN Champion Awards were established in 2010 to recognize and award outstanding individual achievements in the areas that are considered critical for the success in management education (research, teaching, institutional management, and responsible management education).  The 2013 Champion Awards now call for nominations, and the winners will be announced and awarded at the 21^st CEEMAN Annual Conference in September.

PRME supported AOM PDW: “Management Education for the Future -Towards Responsibility, Sustainability and Integrity”

The 73rd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Capitalism in Question, will take place August 9-13, 2013 in Lake Buena Vista (Orlando), Florida.

PRME will play an active role in the “Management Education for the Future -Towards Responsibility, Sustainability and Integrity” session scheduled for Saturday, Aug 10 2013 8:00AM - 12:00PM at WDW Coronado Springs Resort in Fiesta 6.

Visit the conference website for more details.

The PRME Secretariat and CEEMAN are co-organizing the 2013 PRME Summit - 5th Annual Assembly on 25-26 September 2013 in Bled, Slovenia. This event will be held in conjunction with the 21^st CEEMAN Annual Conference on 27 September.

Click here to register

About

Following the good practice of convening PRME Summits between the biennial Global Forums, Steering Committee member, CEEMAN, the association of 210 members from 51 countries, and the PRME Secretariat are co-organizing the 2013 PRME Summit on 25-26 September 2013 in Bled, Slovenia.

The 21st CEEMAN Annual Conference, which will be held on 27 September in conjunction with the 2013 PRME Summit, will enable participants to continue their discussion, while also learning more from best practices and lessons acquired from the inspiring innovations in leadership development taken by CEEMAN members.

Aims

To continue the creation of a new intellectual, research, teaching, and institutional agenda that develops leaders for the future we want, the Summit will be a forum to share learnings from the innovations that have been taking place among PRME signatory schools. The concept of “4 I’s” will enable to cover the four major facets of PRME:

• Inspiration: What inspiration we can get and how we can learn from philosophy, history, science, culture and arts, sports, and other fields?
• Innovation: How to unlock the next level of management education and leadership development? What role could and should PRME Champions play in this respect?
• Implementation: How to ensure and facilitate a wider and deeper implementation of PRME, sustainable development and responsible leadership among business schools and their stakeholders worldwide? What is the role that PRME Chapters could and should play to facilitate this?
• Impact: What can we do as individuals, management development institutions, their associations, including through partnerships with our stakeholders, to ensure a deeper and persistent impact on the new role of business, responsible leadership and sustainable development?

Format

As traditional for major PRME events, the 2013 Summit will combine plenary sessions with keynote addresses, panels and Q&A, as well as a series of roundtables which will further contribute to hearing the voice of educators, business community, policy makers, youth, and Summit participants in general.

Who should attend?

The 2013 PRME Summit is a must for all those engaged in the development of responsible leaders: business school leaders, faculty members and researchers of PRME signatories and schools that have not yet joined PRME, business and HR executives, those responsible for CSR and sustainable business practices, UN Global Compact local offices and networks, governmental representatives and NGOs, youth, media and general public.

We look forward to seeing you in Bled on 25-27 September 2013.

The 21st CEEMAN Annual Conference, which will be held on 26 -27 September in conjunction with the 2013 PRME Summit will focus on business schools as responsible change agents. And provide an opportunity to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of CEEMAN and express thanks to all members for their trust, support, and contribution to the positioning of our organization among major global management development associations, whose value platform, creativity, and innovation are widely appreciated and recognized.

Location: Bled, Slovenia

PRME Steering Committee member The Academy of Business in Society (ABIS) and signatory NYENRODE Business University are pleased to announce the 2013 ABIS Colloquium: Sustainability and Finance.

October 15-17, Nyenrode Business University, Breukelen, the Netherlands

We are pleased to invite you to save the date for the 12th ABIS Annual Colloquium, which this year takes “Sustainability and Finance” as its central theme.

Participants will have the opportunity to engage in a global debate on the critical sustainability-related trends, challenges and priorities shaping the interface between the financial sector, business, governments and society. The ABIS Colloquium will bring together perspectives from a range of international thought leaders to expand knowledge horizons in this vital field of practice and study. 

An invitation with the detailed programme will follow at a later stage. Please also feel free to visit and bookmark the conference website: www.nyenrode.nl/abis2013.

ABIS looks forward to seeing you at Nyenrode later this year!

The Business Ethics Network Africa is pleased to announce that the 14th Annual BEN-Africa Conference will be held on 30 October – 1 November 2013 at the Lagos Business School in Nigeria.

View the complete Call for Papers.

The Business Ethics Network Africa’s mission is to strengthen the commitment and competence of Africans to do business with moral integrity by facilitating interaction between academics and practitioners who share an interest in business ethics.

In order to achieve this mission BEN-Africa is committed to achieving the following goals:

• To facilitate interaction between academics and practitioners who share an interest in business ethics.
• To gather and disseminate information on business ethics in Africa.
• To strengthen the commitment and competence of our members to improve the business ethics record of Africa.

We herewith now invite business practitioners, managers from the public and non-profit sectors, academics and post-graduate students to participate in the 14th Annual BEN-Africa Conference to be held on 30 October – 1 November 2013 at the Lagos Business School in Nigeria.

The annual meeting of PRME signatories in the Middle East & North Africa is scheduled for 10-11 November at the University of Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates.

The 2nd PRME MENA Regional Forum took place at the Holy Spirit University of Kaslik in Jounieh, Lebanon.

The 1st PRME MENA Regional Forum took place at the American University in Cairo - School of Business in Cairo, Egypt.

More details will be posted as available.

The 4th PRME Asia Forum will be hosted by the De La Salle University Ramon V. del Rosario College of Business in Manila, the Philippines, on 14-15 November. 

More information will be provided shortly. 

The 3rd PRME Australia/New Zealand Forum, the annual meeting of regional PRME signatories, will be held 19-20 November at the University of Waikato Management School in Hamilton, New Zealand. In addition to sessions discussing the role of responsibility in management education, the Forum, co-hosted by Waikato Management School, Waikato Tainui College of Education and the PRME Secretariat, will feature prominently the theme of indigenous business education. 

Those interested in helping organize a youth programme on the sidelines of the PRME Forum are asked to contact Maria Humphries (mariah@waikato.ac.nz), who can also answer other questions about the agenda and event logistics.

Last year's 2nd PRME Australia/New Zealand Forum took place at Griffith Business School in Brisbane, Australia. In 2011, the University of New South Wales - Australia School of Business in Sydney hosted the 1st PRME Australia/New Zealand Forum.

This year's meeting is supported by the PRME Australasia Chapter, which is assisted by the University of New South Wales - Australian School of Business and other institutions in the region.

We encourage you to mark these dates on your calendar and look forward to seeing you this November in New Zealand.

The 1th PRME UK and Ireland Chapter Forum will be hosted by Winchester Business School in Winchester, Hampshire, United Kingdom on 8-9 April 2014. 

More information will be provided shortly.