Educate leaders for one (more) circular future: how business schools are promoting ESG, sustainability and positive impact
Carrera Escalators / June 2, 2025
Alon ROSAS
With all the subsequent procedure in recent months in climatic initiatives, ESG and sustainability, especially in the United States, I hope you can say this with too many feathers, that the future of businesses cannot make it long). It is difficult to deny the urgency of rethinking how we produce, consume and discard so that we extract less, produce less and consume less (or better). And yet, now we are seeing business paradoxical Fight to understand the ESG and sustainable accounting frames, in he A hand, and trying to understand why the same investors who penalized green washing and asked strict zero net goals in 2024 are now going back or reversing the courseon the other. So“ The Billion Dolk Question that is now coming For business schools everywhere: How can we train leaders to have competition and confidence to address the front thesis challenges? Then they tore doIngested The right thing although Rirando quicklyAnd ambiguous political winds?
Accepted challenge!
Ate École des Ponts Business SchoolWe take this challenge personally, after all, we have the leg “in business to make a better world” since 1987. As the Business School of the renowned French Engineering School,
Ethics national despair Ponts he Chaussées – Institute Polytechnic The Paris (the ENPC), which is under the tutelage of the French Ecological Transition Ministry, we are naturalLy The proponents of the Triple Recook Accounting for which we take into account people, the planet and profits. And we try to recruit participants who share our values and who want to make an impact.
As this edition of the CEO magazine is dedicated to the Green MBA, allow me to share with you some of the thoughts and design that entered orUR Leadtech Global Executive MBA We run together with EADA Business School in Barcelona. We have designed this program so that He sits directly at the intersection of technology, innovation, leadership and impact (Social impact, Sustainability and circularity). And not only do we pay the lipstick to the concept of to Sustainable ycBlind oneConomy: we teach it INTEGALLYInvestigate it intenselyand Encourage Our students to Live authentic. Each participant graduates not only with an MBA but with a certificate in circular economy. Because? Because in the world of Tomorrow, it will only be a competitive advantage, it will be a table adventure.
It is not a good–to–have a better–to–have
Call it European values, but we are in love with the basic principles of he Circular economy: using more time assets (to extract and waste less), reusing assets more frequently (to produce less) and encourageingram Users On the property (to extract, produce and waste less). We see the circular economy as a more advanced and profitable business model that does not sacrifice people, the planet or profits along the way. That the circular is not pleasant to have, which generates a good karma at the expense of greater costs; It is a better to have, which allows businesses to generate a more positive impact along with greater profits. To read the full article, click Gentleman!
