The Corporate Knights ‘Better World’ MBA ranking has been published since 2010. It reviews MBAs at accredited business schools, focusing on the extent to which the core curriculum addresses concepts of sustainable development. It also awards an ‘alumni impact’ bonus which King’s Business School will become eligible for when its first Executive MBA students graduate in summer 2025.
The King’s Business School Executive MBA was designed to reflecting society’s new expectations of business and the urgent need to address problems like climate change. Many of its modules are multidisciplinary, allowing students to, for example, explore how sustainability impacts financial decisions, while the ESG module prepares leaders to move ESG and sustainability away from organisational silos and make them integral to their business’s strategies for creating value and opportunity.
Several of the Executive MBA programme’s module leads are actively involved in research around sustainability. Dr Catherine Tilley, who leads the Managing Under Uncertainty module is the Impact Director for the Business School’s Centre for Sustainability, Dr Elisa Alt, who leads the Innovation for Impact module is an expert on entrepreneurial change agents, while Professor Paolo Aversa, who leads the Global Immersion module is also researching Climate Change mitigation measures for winter sports resorts. The Programme Director, Dr Gillian Brooks is an expert on circular fashion models.
King’s Business School welcomed its first Executive MBA students in September 2023 and is now teaching students across two year groups. The School’s Executive MBA candidates are drawn from a wide range of industries and sectors, including financial services, engineering, construction, health retail and the legal sector.
