Together with the The Club of Rome, the Business Ethics Center organized a workshop on “Business Education and the Future of the Planet” on November 11, 2024 at the Corvinus Institute for Advanced Studies in Budapest.
Paul Shrivastava, Co-President of The Club of Rome delivered a keynote lecture on “Transforming Business Education – A Systems View” while Laszlo Zsolnai gave a lecture on “Business Education and Transformational Learning”. They agreed that business education should be reformed toward transdisciplinarity and giving room for whole person development of the students. The Anthropocene requires combining professional knowledge with ecological sensitivity and a humanistic ethics.
The workshop continued with a panel discussion on “How to Renew Business Education”. Panelists included Daniel Havran, Dean of Masters Programs & Corvinus Corporate Finance Department, Judit Gaspar, Head of Corvinus Decision Science Department, Anna Hidegh, Head of Corvinus Organizational Behaviour and Human Resource Development Department, Jozsef Veress, Assistant Professor, Corvinus Information Systems Department, an Agnes Zsoka, Corvinus Sustainability Management and Environmental Economics Department.
More than 50 Corvinus faculty members participated in the workshop which served to catalyze joint thinking on the renewal of business education for respomding to the grand challeneges of the Anthropocene era.
An interview with Paul Shrivastava can be seen here: https://www.uni-corvinus.hu/post/hir/prof-shrivastava-we-need-new-business-models-that-are-ecologically-sensible-and-wellbeing-oriented/?lang=en