International Summer School on Social Entrepreneurship and Sustainability

The International Summer School on Social Entrepreneurship and Sustainability in Emerging Markets is a  10 days lasting  event for international and Georgian students. During various lectures, workshops, field trips, participants will acquire knowledge of this topic, which they will then apply within their team projects and case studies.

More information here: http://www.oikos-summerschool.org

Author image

oikos International

posted May 26, 2014

This might be for you.

Faculty from Concordia University, Mc Gill University and Carinthia University of Applied Sciences Win oikos Case Writing Competition 2014

11th edition of the annual oikos Case Writing Competition awards leading teaching cases on sustainability in management and entrepreneurship

St. Gallen, 26th May 2014 – oikos, the international student-driven organization for sustainable management and economics, announced the winners of its annual oikos Case Writing Competition. The first prize in the corporate sustainability track is awarded to Professor Dietmar Sternad from Carinthia University of Applied Sciences (Austria) for his case “Organic Growth at Sonnentor“. In the Social Entrepreneurship track, the first prize goes to Raymond Paquin from Concordia University (Canada), as well as Dror Etzion, James Povitz and Benjamin Gruber at McGill University (Canada) for their case entitled “Communauto: A Big Idea for a Big Market“.

The annual oikos Case Writing Competition promotes the development of new high quality case studies on sustainability in management, entrepreneurship and finance. An international panel of more than 30 leading faculty evaluates the cases in a double-blind review process and gives written feedback to all authors. For each of the three tracks on corporate sustainability, social entrepreneurship and sustainable finance the judging committee selects the winners and runners-up. The first prize amounts to CHF 5000, the second prize is CHF 2000 and the third prize CHF 1000. The jury may decide, as was the case for this 2014 edition in the newly launched third track on “Sustainable Finance” not to award a prize, if none of the submitted cases meet the high requirements in terms of educational excellence, sustainability focus and innovativeness defined by the competition.

Partners of the program include Ashoka, a global organization that identifies and invests in leading social entrepreneurs; caseplace.org, a dedicated and curated library of teaching resources provided by the Aspen Institute to support the integration of sustainability in business education; The Case Centre, the biggest collection of management case studies worldwide; the University of St. Gallen, a front-runner in higher education business courses;  and WWF, one of the world’s largest and most respected independent conservation organizations.

In its eleventh edition of the competition – since its launch in 2003 – more than 40 cases written by scholars of 15 different countries were submitted. The complete list of winning cases is shown below:

Corporate Sustainability Track
1st Prize "Organic Growth at Sonnentor" by Dietmar Sternad (Carinthia University of Applied Sciences, Austria),
2nd Prize "IKEA and the Better Cotton Initiative'" by Stefano Pogutz (Università Bocconi, Italy)
3rd Prize "Accenture Development Partnerships (A) (B)" by Michelle Rogan and Christiane Bode (INSEAD, France)
Runner up"Barrick Gold: A Perfect Storm at Pascua Lama" by Craig Smith and Erin McCormick (INSEAD, France)
Runner up"Terra Nova (A)" by Gilles van Wijk and Alireza Ahmadsimab (Essec Business School, France)
Social Entrepreneurship Track
1st Prize "Communauto: A Big Idea for a Big Market" by Raymond Paquin (Concordia University, Canada), Dror Etzion, James Povitz and Benjamin Gruber (McGill University, Canada)
2nd Prize "Clean Water Grow: 'Go or No Go?'" by Simon Ngawhika and Scott Marshall (Portland State University, USA)
3rd Prize "Wellcome – Growth of a Social Enterprise" by Karin Kreutzer and Magdalena Kloibhofer (European Business School, Germany)
Runner up"MokshaYug Access (MYA) in India: Enriching India’s Dairy Farmers" by Rajan Shah (Amity Research Centers, India)
Runner up"Mannat Foundation: Building Social Enterprise for the ‘Bottom of the Pyramid’" by Trupti Karkhanis, Ritu Sinha and Anurag Pratap (Indian Education Society – Management College and Research Centre, India)

Further information including inspection copies for each case is available at:
https://oikos-international.org/cases

About oikos

oikos is an international student-driven organization promoting the integration of sustainability issues in research and teaching at faculties for management and economics. The organization comprises a global community of 40 student chapters at universities around the world as well as faculty, alumni, advisors and partners. Its program consists of conferences, seminars, fellowships, and other events as well as a variety of action-based learning platforms that support the integration of long-term economic, environmental and social trends in research and teaching. More: http://www.oikos-international.org/.

Contact oikos Cases Project Leader Jordi Vives Gabriel for any questions you may have.

Author image

oikos International

posted May 26, 2014

This might be for you.

oikos Fashion webinar

On June 11 at 6pm CET oikos Fashion will welcome Philipp Meister of the adidas Group for their third webinar of the series: “Sustainable Success Stories”.

He will talk about “Sustainability at the adidas Group”.

Sign up for free via here.

oF_webinar III_banner

Author image

oikos International

posted May 22, 2014

This might be for you.

oikos Fashion webinar

On May 26 at 6pm CET oikos Fashion will welcome Enrico Rima of the German startup Lebenskleidung for their second webinar of the series: “Sustainable Success Stories”.

He will talk about “Democratizing the production – Collective buying at Lebenskleidung”.

Sign up for free via here.

oF_webinar III_banner

Author image

oikos International

posted May 22, 2014

This might be for you.

oikos Newsletter May 2014

As the spring semester comes to a close, oikees around the world are still pushing the boundaries of sustainability at their schools. FutureLab, oikos Summer School, and the oikos PhD fellowship have all just recently released calls for application. Apply today to become the change you want to see in the world of sustainability! If you are reading about the upcoming meets in India and Germany and want your chapter to become more internationally involved, why not apply to host next year’s Spring Meeting? Don’t forget to look at the new sustainability case book edited by oikos’ own PhD fellow, Jordi Vives Gabriel. Finally, get inspired by Franzi Straten, the driving force behind Spring Meeting 2014. Best of luck with final papers and exams!

Read more

Author image

oikos International

posted May 10, 2014

This might be for you.