Educators
Workshop: Implementing Societal Impact into the Business School Curriculum
Workshop Series Join us on June 11, 2025, at Cornell Tech in New York City for a highly interactive, hands-on workshop designed to help business school leaders and educators infuse societal impact into their curricula. Throughout the day, participants will explore real-world examples and emerging best practices for embedding sustainability, ESG principles, and human rights into core courses and specialized modules. Facilitated discussions and collaborative exercises will guide attendees in developing their own course segments, with ample opportunities for peer feedback and action planning. By the end of the workshop, participants will leave with concrete tools, detailed plans, and a supportive network to champion meaningful change in their institutions.
This workshop will take place during the . The objective of RME Week is to advance responsible management education and its impact worldwide through convening and knowledge exchange.
Facilitator
Erik Foley works as a Senior Consultant at Antea Group USA, an environmental health & safety and sustainability consultancy that serves 20% of the Fortune 100 and hundreds of other companies across technology, energy, consumer and industrial goods, and financial services. Erik is part of Antea Group's Sustainability Practice with service lines focused on water and climate risk, carbon accounting and disclosures, sustainability reporting, and materiality assessments. In his role as Senior Consultant reporting to the CEO, Erik specializes in providing strategic ESG advisory services to C-suite, legal counsel, and investor relations, as well as coaching and mentoring of junior employees. Clients have included private equity, oil and gas, cosmetics, consumer goods, fast food, banks, office supply retailers and more. Before joining Antea Group, Erik started the Center for the Business of Sustainability at Penn State's Smeal College of Business. He served as the founding director of the center while also developing and teaching courses in sustainability strategy, sustainable supply chain management, and social entrepreneurship. In this capacity, he assembled a Sustainability Advisory Board of executives from IBM, Verizon, Walmart, Amazon, Interface, PepsiCo, Caterpillar, International Paper, and Hershey. He was faculty director of the Business Sustainability Strategy Graduate Certificate Program, and co-faculty director of Penn State Executive Programs' "Building a Sustainable Supply Chain" short course whose participants have included private companies and the US Department of Defense.
Pratima (Tima) Bansal is a Professor and Canada Research Chair of Business Sustainability at the Ivey Business School, Western University (London, Canada). She is also the Chair of the Advisory Board of PRME.
Bansal has been investigating sustainability-related issues for over 30 years by viewing business strategy through the lenses of time, space, scale. Her more recent work advocates for systems thinking to be integrated into business research, teaching and practice. Her research has been published in many top tier management journals and she has completed two terms on the editorial team as an Associate and Deputy Editor of the Academy of Management Journal. Beyond academia, Bansal has built bridges between research and practice by founding two influential organizations: the Network for Business Sustainability, which connects thousands of researchers and business leaders worldwide, and Innovation North, which helps companies reimagine innovation through systems thinking. She was also an early pioneer in sustainability teaching, introducing sustainability in the undergraduate, MBA, MSc and PhD programs at the Ivey Business School.
Pricing
595 USD for °®Âþµº members and non-members.
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