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15/10/2007

Aspen Institute - Ranking of MBA programs

The Aspen Institute's (Centre for Business Education) recently ranked US and European business schools for their biennial survey and ranking of business schools "Beyond Grey Pinstripes".

The Aspen Institute´s mission is to spotlight innovative full-time MBA programs that are integrating issues of social and environmental stewardship into curricula and research.

2007-2008 Beyond Grey Pinstripes Top Global 100 (see bschool profiles in the US and Europe rankings below)

Rank: European Schools

  1. Instituto de Empresa

  2. ESADE Business School

  3. Erasmus University Rotterdam

  4. The University of Nottingham

  5. University of Jyväskylä

  6. Copenhagen Business School

  7. INSEAD

  8. IMD - International Institute for Management Development

  9. Cranfield School of Management

  10. University of Bath

Rank: United States Schools

  1. Stanford University

  2. The University of Michigan

  3. University of California, Berkeley

  4. University of Notre Dame

  5. Columbia University

  6. Cornell University

  7. Duquesne University

  8. Yale University

  9. New York University

  10. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Some of the findings of Beyond Grey Pinstripes, while elaborating the ranking:

  • The percentage of schools surveyed that require students to take a course dedicated to business and society issues has increased dramatically over time, from 34% in 2001 to 63% in 2007.

  • Since the last survey in 2005, the number of elective courses per school dedicated to social/environmental content has increased 20%.

  • The proportion of schools offering general social and environmental content in required core courses has increased in most business disciplines—Accounting, Economics, Finance, Management, Marketing, Strategy—since the 2005 survey.

  • However, the proportion of schools requiring content in core courses on how mainstream business can address social or environmental issues remains low.

  • Of the 112 schools that responded to the survey this year, 35 offer a special concentration or major that allows MBAs to focus on social and environmental issues inherent in mainstream, for-profit business.

  • Change is still occurring slowly when it comes to published academic research on social or environmental topics. In the 1999-2000 survey, even top schools had as few as three to four published research articles on these concerns across the entire faculty. In the 2007-2008 survey, only 5% of the faculty at the surveyed business schools published research that examined important social or environmental impact or business opportunities.

Sidst opdateret: Communications // 15/10/2007