Executive Summary
The 2022 Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) Global Forum was hosted virtually on 3 June. As has been the case since the inaugural Global Forum in 2008, the event sought to bring together all PRME stakeholders: including students, faculty, deans, board members, and others, in discussions about the latest innovations and challenges in responsible management education.
2022 marks the 15th anniversary of PRME. To celebrate, the PRME community reflected on 15 years of impact, while also looking ahead to the next 15 years of the PRME initiative. The 2022 Global Forum’s overarching purpose was, through a range of plenaries, sessions, and workshops, to envision and shape the future of business and management education in support of the global effort to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The Global Forum saw 1060 registrants from 83 countries and attendees from 75 countries. Facilitated by the PRME Secretariat in New York, there were 12+ hours of content across time zones with 100+ speakers split across 30+ sessions. Notably, speakers were gender-balanced and diverse in terms of nationality, age, personal and professional background, etc.
About the Global Forum
The Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) Global Forum originated in 2008 as an event intended to bring together all of PRME’s stakeholders: students, faculty, deans, board members, and others, in discussion about the latest innovations and challenges in responsible management education. This year was the 10th edition of the Forum and its second virtual iteration in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
15 years of the Principles for Responsible Management Education
This year marks the 15th anniversary of PRME, a milestone in the initiative's history. To celebrate, the PRME community reflected on 15 years of impact, while also looking ahead to the next 15 years of the PRME initiative. The theme allowed us to cast vision together for what we hope to see come out of the PRME community in the near and distant future.
OBJECTIVES
The 2022 Virtual PRME Global Forum’s strategic vision is to accelerate and scale the global collective impact of responsible management education. It intended to bring together stakeholders from business, academia, the United Nations, the public sector, and the PRME community to accelerate the positive impact responsible management and business education can make on the leaders of tomorrow. Its overarching purpose was to envision and shape the future of business and management education in support of the global effort to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Along these lines, the 2022 Global Forum had as an objective the strengthening of the collaboration and strategic alignment of PRME and UN Global Compact, as both entities share key priority areas including business and human rights, decent work, gender equality, climate change, and sustainable finance amongst others.
VENUE
This year’s events were originally planned to be in person in New York, NY. However, to remain inclusive of our global community, responsible for our environmental impacts, and aligned with the UN Global Compact’s Leaders Summit, PRME moved its programming to Hopin-a digital event platform that allows attendees to visit multiple stages, sessions, expo booths, and more. Once deciding to transition to a virtual program due to COVID-19, PRME selected Hopin as its venue because of its familiarity and success in serving our community over the past three years.
Event Outcomes Overview
Programming
Agenda
AGENDA STRUCTURE
PRME wanted to offer a variety of formats for programming during the 2022 Global Forum. This was achieved through a range of virtual plenaries, sessions, and workshops hosted during the Global Forum. Parallel sessions allowed for multiple discussions at once and for the participants to choose a session based on their preferences.
Notably, there was also a dedicated i5 workshop. It presented the i5 program, which is a collaboration between PRME and the Lego Foundation that is dedicated to holistic skillset development in leadership education,. To ensure collaboration between participants and facilitators, the i5 workshop was held on Zoom, rather than Hopin.
"Business must be at the front end of the change to make the world better."
- Tima Bansal
WHAT WAS DISCUSSED
The topics discussed in the 2022 Global Forum reflected the Forum’s objectives and purpose of covering key issues in responsible management education while bringing together the global PRME community. Topics included:
- Collaboration and strategic alignment of PRME and UN Global Compact for collective impact (global and local perspectives)
- Advancing management education in key priority areas including business and human rights, decent work, gender equality, climate change and sustainable finance amongst others
- Advancing strategic partnerships for impact and amplification
- Focus sessions for PRME Chapters, Working Groups, Deans, Champions, Students, Partners and more
- Student-led sessions on the value of sustainability-focused education in and announcement of student-engagement initiatives
- Presentation of PRME Recognition Awards
"Rarely have I ever seen a truly global network championing such ideals consistently"
- Andrew Main Wilson
SESSIONS & RECORDINGS
Eastern Hemisphere
- Toward the Next 15 Years: The Role for PRME in Challenging Times
- Multi-Stakeholder Panel: Collaboration and Climate
- Keynote: “The Purpose-Driven University: How students are pushing us to do better”
- Indigenous Communities and Responsible Management Education: Opportunities and Challenges
- Leading Practices in the PRME Community: Eastern Hemisphere (presented by PRME Chapters): Innovation in Curriculum: Pedagogies and Impact
- PRME Global Students (PGS) - A Year of Driving Global Cooperation Among Students
- Business Schools and Planetary Boundaries
- The Role for Business in Addressing Conflict and Shaping Peace
- Social Entrepreneurship for Change
- Practicing Inclusion
- Measuring for Social Impact
- Rethinking Social Impact: Leadership in Uncertain Times
Western Hemisphere
- Opening Plenary
- Keynote: "PRME: The Last 15 Years and The Next 15 Years"
- Innovative Pedagogies for Faculty in Challenging Times
- Partnerships for Social Impact
- Keynote: "Civically Engaged Institutions: Harness the Power of Universities to Advance Sustainable Citizenship"
- Positive Impact Rating for Business Schools: Launch of the 2022 Edition
- ESG in Action with Business Simulations
- Best Practices in the PRME Community: Western Hemisphere (by PRME Chapter Chairs)
- Accelerating the Shift in Academic Business School Research: Towards Impact and the United Nations SDGs
- Futureproofing the PRME SIP Reporting Rationale to Support Collective Transformative Impact
- Incorporating Sustainability into the Business School Curriculum: Sustainable Finance, Human Rights and Gender Equality
- Keynote: "The Future of Management Education: New Pedagogies for New Leaders"
- (i5) Workshop: New Pedagogies for New Leaders
- Integrating the SDGs in Curriculum, Research, and Partnerships
- Connecting Leading Youth Networks to Drive Global Systemic Change
- The Leadership Skill Gap: Are We Doing Enough?
- Humanizing Business Education
- Keynote: "Global Needs for Youth Leadership Education"
- SIP, Faculty, and Student Awards Ceremony
- Conversation with the Board: Sharing a Strategic Vision for PRME
"We need to recognize that the challenges of our time are global and affect people from various backgrounds. We need to help students experience the importance of diversity in their daily life. Being a part of PRME is an amazing opportunity to hold ourselves accountable for action."
- Andrew Karolyi
Awards
FACULTY AWARD FINALISTS
FACULTY AWARD WINNER
STUDENT AWARD FINALISTS
STUDENT AWARD WINNER
SIP RECOGNITION AWARD WINNERS
PROMOTIONAL ACTIVITIES AND OUTCOMES
Promotional activities included social media posts advertising the nature and intention of the event, speaker cards with speakers and their roles/titles, recruitment for video campaigns, including blurbs in newsletters, and sending out marketing emails about the Global Forum.
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APPENDIX
2022 PRME GLOBAL FORUM SPEAKERS
2022 PRME GLOBAL FORUM SPONSORS
Cesim Business Simulations
Cesim was born 25 years ago from the realization that business and management were learned in silos. Learners seldom got to experience competitive dynamics, the interactions between different functions, or what it means to cope with uncertainty. The theoretical foundation of the business simulation methodology is experiential learning, and our mission is to make this available and affordable to the broadest possible audience with relevant content. Cesim simulations are competitive - participants make decisions that influence their competitors and vice versa. They are also WCAG 2.0 and GDPR compliant."
Fordham Gabelli School of Business
At Fordham University’s Gabelli School of Business, our mission is to educate global leaders who are passionate about business with a higher purpose - not only to generate profit but also to produce positive change - in their communities, in their countries, and around the world. Our students want to make an impact, whether in traditional business fields like accounting and investment banking or at organizations focusing on social innovation. The Gabelli School of Business is also home to the Responsible Business Coalition (RBC), a pioneering network of industry leaders that includes 52 CEOs across 275 of the world’s largest brands, who work collectively to redesign business as a sustainable force for prosperity. The RBC seeks to bridge industry and academia with a focus on ESG, to convene leaders of modern business, incubate collective action, and engage faculty and industry leaders to foster a values-based education while driving more sustainable business practices.
Hanken School of Economics
Founded in 1909, Hanken is one of the oldest business schools in the Nordic countries, with over 110 years of experience in research and education in economics and business administration. Today, Hanken is the only stand-alone business school in Finland, operating in the capital, Helsinki, and in Vaasa. Hanken is focused on conducting high-quality research and education, internationalization, strong corporate connections, and sustainability. Advocating responsibility and sustainability is a core objective throughout research, teaching, and human resources. We are actively working towards being carbon neutral by 2030.
EGADE Business School
EGADE Business School has built a globally recognized reputation as the leading Latin American business education institution, committed to empowering omnipreneurial leaders who create shared value and transform society. The school´s innovation-led academic model and learning culture, world-recognized programs, distinguished world-class faculty, outstanding global alumni community, and rigorous focus on applying knowledge for impact, have contributed to its standing as the top-ranked Latin American business school by several international rankings organizations, including QS, Eduniversal, Financial Times, and The Economist. EGADE is a member of an elite group of business schools worldwide to hold the acclaimed "triple crown" of global accreditation that recognizes business education excellence: AACSB, AMBA & EQUIS. The School is a member of the Global Network for Advanced Management, a leading network of 30 leading business schools from diverse regions, countries, cultures, and economies in different phases of development, committed to contributing solutions for major challenges that are typically complex and global.
CBS International Business School
The CBS International Business School (with three campuses in Cologne, Mainz, and Potsdam) is a private, state-recognized applied sciences university founded in 1993. All CBS study programmes are economics and business-related and the majority is fully taught in English. CBS is among the TOP 5 private universities of applied sciences in 5 categories (service, consulting, and practical relevance)! Additionally, CBS was the first German business school to be internationally accredited by the IACBE, the International Accreditation Council for Business Education.
SAGE Publishing
SAGE is a global academic publisher of books, journals, and a growing suite of library products and services. Driven by the belief that social and behavioral science has the power to improve society, we focus on publishing impactful research, enabling robust research methodology, and producing high-quality educational resources that support instructors to prepare the citizens, policymakers, educators, and researchers of the future. We publish more than 1,000 journals and 600 new books globally each year and library resources that include archives, data, case studies, videos, and technologies for discovery, access, and engagement. SAGE’s founder, Sara Miller McCune, has transferred control of the company to an independent trust, guaranteeing its independence indefinitely.
University of Exeter Business School
Located in the southwest of the UK, the University of Exeter Business School is proud to have been a member of PRME since 2010, although these themes have been part of our School long before. With excellence in research and education focused around three core themes of environmental sustainability, responsible leadership, and technological transformation as we seek to embody our ethos of ‘Leadership for a better world’.
University of Dubai
Since 2008, the University of Dubai, Dubai Business School, is proud to be one of the first hundred signatories and one of the champions of PRME, aiming to transform its students into responsible leaders of the future. By being an academic member of the UN Global Compact and also being a subsidiary of the Dubai Chamber, the University of Dubai becomes a bridge between industry and academia, to achieve the PRME principles and Sustainable Development Goals. In 2021, the University of Dubai received a platinum LEED certificate and its green campus became the first university in the world to be 100% NZEC (Net-Zero Energy Campus). We wholeheartedly believe that we are making a difference in the world through our communication with PRME and UN Global Compact which will pave the way for future generations.
T.A. Pai Management Institute
The student city of Manipal, Karnataka plays host to the T.A. Pai Management Institute, fondly known as TAPMI. Named after its founder, Shri. T.A. Pai, TAPMI was established in 1980 with a vision of creating responsible business leaders, leaders who dream and achieve but with a resolve to make a difference. TAPMI is one among the 7 institutes in India and 5% of the top business schools worldwide to have been accredited by AACSB, the oldest and toughest accreditation in the world of business education. TAPMI is a center of business excellence with over 30 years of experience in academics, research, and Executive Education. TAPMI’s Executive Education course was introduced with the aim to improve management practice in the industry. It enables existing managers to develop capabilities to transform themselves and their companies.
Haub School of Business, St. Joseph's University
Haub School of Business strives to empower students to become business leaders poised for success and daring to advocate for change in an ever-evolving world. Haub seeks excellence in business education that offers breadth in terms of broad-based coverage of business concepts and skills, depth through a focus on specific industries and professions, and wholeness via education of students in service with and for others in accordance with the Ignatian tradition.