The third oikos PRI Young Scholars Finance Academy 2011 will provide a unique platform to develop emerging researchers. Exceptional graduate students and young faculty are at the center of the programme and they will have exposure to leading academics and practitioners who provide feedback on their work and share advice about careers in the field of responsible investment.

The event includes paper development workshops, professional development roundtables, guest speeches and outdoor activities in the picturesque Swiss Alps. The philosophy of the Academy is towards long-term development of young academic research.  Selected participants will be encouraged to submit papers to a follow up symposium hosted by the PRI and Mistra in Stockholm in September 2011.

Download the Call for Papers

The Journal of Global Responsibility recognises that tackling worldwide recession, rapid globalisation and the varied and complex challenges of ‘sustainability’ requires a systemic reorientation of business practice. The scale and depth of these challenges raises questions about the effectiveness of existing educational offerings, in preparing future managers, leaders and entrepreneurs to make these changes.
 
This call for papers invites contributions to explore the future horizons for engagement with ‘sustainability’ in HE business curricula and to showcase emerging research, leading practice and suggestions for future pathways. The aim of this Special Issue is to strengthen discussion and to encourage greater connectivity at the interface between sustainability imperatives and standard economic and management education. Submissions are welcome from the widest range of disciplinary, methodological and cultural perspectives.
 
Priority themes for the collection include:
 
-          the need to reconcile sustainability issues and economic understanding within business education
-          graduate skills and learning processes for sustainability education in business contexts
-          the influence of market trends towards global corporate responsibility on HE business curricula
-          ways to challenge existing curricula to provide globally responsible business education
 
The guest editors are Professor Daniella Tilbury, Director of Sustainability, and Dr Alex Ryan, Associate Director of Sustainability (Academic), at the University of Gloucestershire, UK. More detailed guidance on the focus, themes and initial abstract submissions process is attached to this email. Please email Alex Ryan with any further inquiries: aryan@glos.ac.uk

Initial abstracts to be submitted for selection by: Friday 30^th July 2010
Invited manuscripts to be submitted for peer review: 30^th October 2010
Anticipated publication date: October 2011

 Ivey School of Business making extensive case collection available

LONDON, ON, July 19, 2010 – Business cases are one of the most powerful building blocks of management education. The Richard Ivey School of Business is taking a definitive step to make cases more accessible in the least developed countries around the world.

University faculty members in 39 countries with per capita GDP of less than $2,000 a year will now be able to use all cases from Ivey Publishing’s catalogue of more than 7,000 cases at no charge.

This includes countries such as Zimbabwe, with an estimated GDP in 2009 of $200, Rwanda, with an estimated GDP of $1,000; and Cambodia, with an estimated GDP of $1,900. Please see the full list below.

Distributing to more than 100 countries, Ivey Publishing is the world’s second largest producer and distributor of comprehensive, decision-oriented cases.

“Case teaching is a strong way of communicating management education to current business students and to the next generation of business leaders,” said Paul Beamish, Director of Ivey Publishing and Professor at Ivey Business School.

“This is definitely a good initiative. Ivey is one of the leading business schools in the world. Exposure to Ivey cases will give students a good grounding in business, it will help improve the quality of management in companies and it is also good for the economy in those countries,” said Elie Chrysostome, Associate Professor of Strategic Management and International Business at the State University of New York College at Plattsburgh. He is originally from Benin, one of the 39 countries whose universities are now able to access the case collection at no charge.

Faculty members in eligible countries are required to register with Ivey Publishing to access the cases. The cases can only be used in-country and cannot be electronically distributed.

“Case-based teaching allows students to act as real business managers and to effectively apply theory to real situations,” said Beamish, who is also the Director of Ivey’s Asian Management Institute and Director of Ivey’s Engaging Emerging Markets Research Centre.

Ivey Publishing is the largest producer of Asian case studies in the world. Ivey is the top producer of China-based cases, including hundreds available in Chinese. Through case-teaching workshops and case-writing workshops conducted in partnership with universities in developing regions, Ivey has contributed significantly in advancing case-based business education around the world. To keep Ivey Publishing’s case collection current, Ivey adds 200 classroom-tested case studies each year.

The 39 countries eligible to participate: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Democratic Republic of the

Congo, Cote d’Ivoire, Eritrea, Ethiopia, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Kenya, Liberia, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nepal, Niger, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

The Richard Ivey School of Business, The University of Western Ontario The Richard Ivey School of Business (www.ivey.ca) at The University of Western Ontario is one of the top business schools in the world and is the home of Canada's first MBA and business PhD programs. Ivey offers undergraduate and graduate (MBA, MSc, Executive MBA, and PhD) degree programs along with Executive Development programs. The School has campuses in London (Ontario), Toronto, and Hong Kong.

The University of Western Ontario

Founded in 1878, The University of Western Ontario (www.uwo.ca) is one of Canada's oldest universities. Western has about 30,000 undergraduate and graduate students and about 3,500 full-time faculty and staff members. Through its 12 Faculties, and three affiliated Colleges, the University offers more than 400 different majors, minors and specializations. Research is an integral part of the University's mission and external support for research projects exceeds $250 million per year.

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For more information, please contact:

Paul Beamish, Director of Ivey Publishing; Director, Engaging Emerging Markets Research Centre and Professor at Ivey Business School, 519-661-3237, pbeamish@ivey.ca

Gregory Yantz, Senior Manager of Ivey Publishing, 519-661-4134, gyantz@ivey.uwo.ca

Mary Weil, Manager, Media & Public Relations, Richard Ivey School of Business, 416-203-0664, mweil@ivey.ca