Highlighting the role of management education in addressing sustainable development challenges, a group of 25 higher education institutions from across the world joined United Nations Under-Secretary General Yukio Takasu in New York on 19 September 2013 for the launch of Principles of Responsible Management Education (PRME) Champions. New Delhi based IILM Institute for Higher Education has been inducted into the United Nation’s PRME initiative as a “global champion” for the PRME.
Only 25 business schools around the world have been awarded champion status. These B-schools include La Trobe Business School, Australia; ISAE/FGV, Brazil; Ivey Business School, Western University, Canada; University of Guelph College of Management and Economics, Canada; Copenhagen Business School, Denmark; School of Business, The American University in Cairo, Egypt; Hanken School of Economics, Finland; Audencia Nantes School of Management, France; Kemmy Business School, University of Limerick, Ireland; Instituto Panamericano de Alta Dirección de Empresa (IPADE), Mexico; Lagos Business School, Pan-African University, Nigeria; CENTRUM, Centro de Negocios, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Peru; Asian Institute of Management (AIM), Philippines; Ramon V. del Rosario College of Business, De La Salle University, Philippines; IEDC-Bled School of Management, Slovenia; Graduate School of Business, University of Cape Town, South Africa; Kyung Hee University, School of Management, South Korea; Deusto Business School, Spain; ESADE, Spain; Sabanci University, Turkey; University of Dubai, UAE; Aston Business School, UK; Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow School for Business & Society, UK; Nottingham University Business School, UK; Babson College, US; Fordham University Schools of Business, US and Mendoza College of Business, University of Notre Dame, US.
The representatives of PRME Champion institutions have made an ambitious commitment to work collaboratively to develop and promote activities that address barriers to making responsible management education a reality. The PRME Champions group will work to refine what leadership training covers in the space of responsible management education, identify criteria for recognition of progress, and lay out a roadmap for continuous improvement by all in the PRME community.
The group also pledged to engage PRME more actively with United Nations agencies, funds, and programmes, as well as participant companies of the UN Global Compact.
IILM Dean Academics Professor Rakesh Chaudhry, who represented IILM at the meet, said, "IILM is pleased to be counted among the global leaders. Our selection as a PRME Champion reinforces our commitment to preparing responsible leaders.”
PRME Champions has three lead groups working in areas of Curriculum Development, Faculty Development and Research. IILM is a co lead for the Faculty Development sub group along with Copenhagen Business School Denmark, and Babson College, USA. PRME initiative now has over 500 signatories from 81 countries.
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