Oxford Saïd Business School
LAIDLAW FOUNDATION AND OXFORD SAÏD ANNOUNCE NEW £1.8 MILLION SCHOLARSHIP
The Laidlaw Foundation has pledged an additional £1.8 million to provide scholarships for female scholars at Oxford Saïd and Reuben College. The Laidlaw Scholarship will be dispersed over the next three years to 30 exceptional women from diverse backgrounds who would have otherwise been hindered from studying an MBA.
This year, Saïd’s MBA class became one of the few in the world to break gender parity at 51% female. The class also has 97% international students, representing 63 nationalities and 23 sectors.
“We are incredibly grateful to the Laidlaw Foundation for their continued generosity and support. Providing exceptional female scholars with the opportunity to complete our MBA will bolster their considerable talents in business and set them up for even greater success, as leaders and change makers,” says Oxford Saïd dean Soumitra Dutta.
Oxford Saïd welcomed ten Laidlaw scholars at the start of the 2023’s term. One of those is Echika Obijiaku, founder and CEO of Mwanga, a services tech company driving responsible use of credit in Africa via ethical tech-enabled collections. Her aim is to help consumers have a sustainable relationship with credit, and her goal of ensuring ten million people are debt-free by 2030 exemplifies one of the Laidlaw Scholarship values of leading ethically and paying it forward.
NYENRODE BUSINESS UNIVERSITY COLLABORATES ON NEW PLATFORM TO SUPPORT SUSTAINABLE ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Nyenrode Business University in the Netherlands launched today (April 10) a platform to encourage more companies to engage in nature-inclusive entrepreneurship and help them recognise nature as a shareholder.
Onboarding Nature is the result of a collaboration with B Lab Benelux and Earth Law Center. It provides companies with the inspiration, tools, and a legal framework to give nature a clearer role in governance and business operations, known as nature-inclusive governance.
Around the world, some companies are experimenting with nature-inclusive governance, naming Nature as a shareholder, board member, or CEO. Examples include Nature as the sole shareholder (Patagonia), Nature as a board member (Faith in Nature), Nature as an advisor (De Ceuvel), and Nature as a symbolic CEO (Willicroft and Blyde Benelux).
“By studying these pioneers, we have developed the Onboarding Nature toolkit. The toolkit includes step-by-step guides to integrate nature’s voice into commercial organizations,” says Tineke Lambooy, Professor of Corporate Law at Nyenrode Business University.
ALLIANCE MANCHESTER BUSINESS SCHOOL APPOINTS NEW MD FOR EXECUTIVE EDUCATION
Alliance Manchester Business School has appointed Stuart Wells as its new managing director for its Executive Education business. Wells, currently executive director of Client Relations at AMBS, will begin his new position in June.
Before joining the business school in 2015, he led the establishment of Salford Professional Development at the University of Salford.
“Stuart has been pivotal in developing and steering the Executive Education client relations teams as our Executive Director of Client Relations, working across our customized and open Executive Education programmes and senior leader apprenticeships,” says professor Ken McPhail, Head of AMBS.
“I am looking forward to the continued innovation of our offering to ensure we deliver best-in-class professional development for businesses in a world of continuing transformation.”
MANNHEIM ASSISTANT PROFESSOR FOR SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS HONORED AS 2024 AACSB INFLUENTIAL LEADER
Gunther Glenk is one of 22 business school professors honored by AACSB International, the world’s largest business education alliance, as the 2024 Class of Influential Leaders. The annual initiative recognises notable alumni and faculty from AACSB-accredited business schools whose work inspires positive change in the business world and society at large.
Glenk is an assistant professor for sustainable business at the University of Mannheim and a Climate Fellow at Harvard Business School. His research examines the cost and speed of corporate transitions toward net-zero emissions and has been published in leading academic journals in the field of sustainability management. Industry leaders and policymakers have solicited his advice on the risks and opportunities associated with the transition toward a decarbonised energy economy.
Now in its ninth year, AACSB’s Influential Leaders member spotlight highlights the value that business schools bring to business and society.
See full list of honorees here.
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