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Teaching ESG, not as easy as ABC

More business schools and higher education institutions are integrating sustainable finance into their curricula. However, a lack of standardization in a rapidly evolving sector is just one of the challenges that make it difficult to teach.

While governance and environmental issues have gradually become more integrated into business and finance education, the social dimension – namely human rights – is still sorely lagging, says GSEM Prof. Dorothée Baumann-Pauly.

Courses on offer to form the next cohort of finance professionals and managers have evolved and multiplied from mainly short, elective, or executive programs to being taught more broadly at an undergraduate and master’s level. Research has also progressed from a subject that tended to be overlooked in the top academic journals.

This autumn, the Geneva School for Economics and Management launched a new Master of Science in Responsible Management with the option to specialize in business and human rights.

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